Example sentences for: pompous

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

  • (He hangs out with pompous members of the political establishment, has grown arrogant, and doesn't have time to return my calls.)

  • 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.

  • A long profile of Benjamin Netanyahu depicts him as pompous, mean, adulterous, arrogant, deceitful, and cheap.

  • 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.

  • Economic theory is not a collection of dictums laid down by pompous authority figures.


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