Example sentences for: sumptuous

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

  • (You can hear brief clips of Ginsberg reading from "" and ".") Sports mogul Jack Kent Cooke was remembered as a voracious, colorful rags-to-riches entrepreneur who built two dynasties (the Los Angeles Lakers and Washington Redskins) while living a sumptuous life that included four successive wives, two of them too young to be his daughters.

  • The protagonist of A Man in Full is a white businessman who lives in sumptuous surroundings that include a pretty wife whom he seems to need to be introduced to.

  • Cistercian monks protested that such a sumptuous structure was an insult to the godly virtue of poverty, and today, architectural purists still find Notre-Dame a bit “too much.”

  • Nearby, the sumptuous, 16th-century Igreja de São Roque, features a small museum of sacred art.

  • The sumptuous summer home was built in the second half of the 18th century and thrived during the reign of Maria I (1777–1799).


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