Example sentences for: showy

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

  • She has big lips; full, fleshy cheeks; and enormous, showy teeth.

  • 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.

  • The couple staged a more casual wedding than Edward's brothers did, dispensing with superformal dress, showy titles, and a postnuptial smooch.

  • 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.

  • It's showy and luxurious, as glittery as jewelry and a hundred times bigger.


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