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.

  • He is never self-righteous or showy about this.

  • 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.

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


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