Example sentences for: showy

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

  • Perhaps it's all the Zen meditation, which has mellowed his showy Method edges.

  • Insect–plant interactions might also vary in other ways between the hemispheres, as the rarity of showy autumn colours and the paucity of aphid species—which are thought by some to be a driver of these displays (Archetti and Brown 2004)—in south temperate areas suggests.

  • Today it is a commercial street boasting the showy glass tower of the Stock Exchange Building (53 Exchange Place), which features a monumental marble staircase in the foyer.

  • Rauschenberg is an amazingly prolific and formally venturesome artist who, over the past 50 years, has nearly always risked aesthetic trespass, producing work deliberately just one degree or two from being merely ugly, banal, kitschy, gimmicky, showy, facile or, of course, excessive.

  • (Frum doesn't much care for the showy and evangelistic Baptists who displaced the Methodists, Presbyterians, and Episcopalians.)


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