Words similar to showy

Example sentences for: showy

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

(Frum doesn't much care for the showy and evangelistic Baptists who displaced the Methodists, Presbyterians, and Episcopalians.)
In foreign affairs, after he had crushed the Duke of Milan’s army at Marignano and formed a showy alliance with Henry VIII of England, François I’s European ambitions were halted by the German Emperor Charles V. François even suffered the indignity of a year’s imprisonment in Madrid, following a resounding defeat at Pavia in 1525.
This sprawling compound of courtyards and showy 19th-century pavilions is decorated in a pantheon of finely carved friezes, gates, and gold-leaf tableaux depicting scenes of Chinese myth and romance.
She has big lips; full, fleshy cheeks; and enormous, showy teeth.
The word was originally a theatrical term for a showy trick or patch of high-flown, grandiose language that actors would use to attract (`trap') applause (`claps') from their audiences.