Example sentences for: pompous

How can you use “pompous” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • And who's pompous?

  • The publication of two new books about former editor William Shawn has inspired another round of pompous elegies for the grand old New Yorker .)

  • Resentment is narrated, like Another City , by a grumpy writer who lives at the Chateau Marmont hotel; at the same time, Dunne himself appears as a character, as a columnist-novelist named Fawbus Kennedy who is variously called "the kind of nothing this culture has been moving toward for decades," a "third-rate middlebrow Depends ad," and a "pompous mediocrity of a type unprecedented and decidedly unwelcome in this kind of grave proceeding."

  • Imagine Harpo Marx giving the hot foot to a pompous official, who takes out a machine gun and blows him away: That's how cheap Benigni's hash of farce and tragedy is.

  • The other half of Washington finds the idea of Wise-Men-to-the-rescue pompous, patronizing, and undemocratic.


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