Example sentences for: pompously

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

  • Tut-tutting the fixation of newspaper sub-editors on short words like probe and row because they fit in headlines, it adds, somewhat pompously: These words usually hype the story, and that is never our job.

  • In a show largely devoted to the Met's collection of Domenico's work, one can see a host of Punchinellos felling a tree (perhaps one of the "Napoleonic" trees that marked the emperor's progress through Europe) or pompously burying one of their number.


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