Example sentences for: vanities

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

  • Also, a review marks the 10 th anniversary of Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities , noting its undue pessimism: "After all, the economic boom of the 1980s is still humming in the '90s; New York itself is a vastly cleaner, safer place than the city Wolfe described.

  • At the Carnival of 1494, he shamed the Florentines into throwing their “vanities” — not only clothes, jewelry, and cosmetics, but books and paintings, with Botticelli contributing some of his own — onto a giant fire on the Piazza della Signoria.

  • Better than Bonfire of the Vanities . Eleven years in the making and nominated for the National Book Award before its official publication date, Wolfe's new novel is hailed as a masterpiece by some, given mixed reviews by others.

  • Time 's cover story calls Tom Wolfe's new novel, A Man in Full , better than Bonfire of the Vanities . (New York area Time readers will get a Yankees cover.)

  • "Vanity of vanities; all is vanity."


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