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Flamboyant
"Flamboyant" in a Sentence (19 examples)
She wears flamboyant clothes to draw attention.
Vladimir Putin said he had not been misquoted but mistranslated when he had characterized an American presidential nominee as “flamboyant.” A British newspaper had incorrectly translated that word as “brilliant”, and that report misled the candidate into assuming the Russian president had meant brilliant in an intellectual sense — a mistake the paper later corrected.
He likes flamboyant clothes.
Tom was so flamboyant.
Jennifer was flamboyant that night, and Jack fell in love with her immediately.
Sometimes he was desolate and innocent, but sometimes gracious and flamboyant. I couldn't know his all sides yet.
It became the cool thing that people had to have to wear with their street-style outfits. It was very flamboyant. Really fun. Daring. A lot of pattern, a lot of color. And it tweaked something in the global consciousness.
Sami was very flamboyant but not gay.
His flamboyant gestures made her laugh.
He realized she was being sarcastic when she flexed her fingers for flamboyant air quotes.
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When we see some of the monstrous and flamboyant blossoms that enrich the equatorial woods, we do not feel that they are conflagrations of nature; silent explosions of her frightful energy. We simply find it hard to believe that they are not wax flowers grown under a glass case.
1920, Frederic Taber Cooper, The Craftsmanship of Writing, Chapter VI: The Question of Clearness, But a scorn of flamboyant neckties and checkerboard trousers is no excuse for going to the opposite extreme of a blue flannel shirt and overalls; […] .
The unbelievers will say they are but words, but a slogan, but a flamboyant phrase.
Health of flamboyant media tycoon who led three Italian governments had deteriorated in recent years[.]
S. Pierre is a flamboyant church, the details passing into Renaissance.
The second is a chapel of two storeys, the lower dating from 1150, while the upper was rebuilt in the 15th century, and there is a rich Flamboyant entrance with a stairway (1533).
The nave and central tower, more flamboyant in design, were finished early in the sixteenth century after the original plan.
Ancient swords were frequently “flamboyant,” or with waved edges; more especially those used for purposes of state. The Dukes of Burgundy bore a two-handed sword of this form. Indeed, “flaming swords,” as they were called, were worn down to the times of our Charles II., and perhaps later.
The schooners moored to the quay are trim and neat, the little town along the bay is white and urbane, and the flamboyants, scarlet against the blue sky, flaunt their colour like a cry of passion.
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