Example sentences for: pompous

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

  • Just by the by, it sounds as if you disapprove of this man's "pompous friends" and growing arrogance, so give the friendship a decent burial, emotionally, remember the good times, and move on.

  • One tiny typo, one dropped letter would transform the headline into a dark and pompous assertion about the human race: "HE'S HUGE, HE'S POWERFUL, HE'S FAST AND HE'S MAN."

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

  • Ferrigno has written the most pompous bunch of BS that I've read in a long time.

  • I had hopes for Hillary, who seems senator material to me: smart and pompous and possessed with a regal bearing totally out of proportion to her dime-store roots.


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