Example sentences for: self-important

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

  • the following question: When did self-important pomposity become an acceptable cultural style for a pop star?

  • He took himself so seriously . And nothing makes you more bratty and defiant than a self-important adult.

  • The etiquette expert doesn't want to be mistaken for a Tory stick-in-the-mud--she's all-American, she's egalitarian, she's up-to-date--but she's become a self-important, name-dropping crusader in the civility wars herself.

  • Times ' tradition of running stories at approximately five times their logical length might suspect that publication of David Shaw's opus, "Crossing the Line," was a deliberate scheme to hide news of its publisher's and editor's misbehavior by burying it inside a self-important and interminable narrative that almost no one would have the patience to read.

  • Consider Washington High, a wealthy, self-important institution inside the Beltway.


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