How to use extravagant in a sentence

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• The critics were absurdly extravagant with their praise.From the entry absurdly
• A suitor can credibly signal his love for a woman by offering her an expensive and extravagant gift.From the entry credibly
• Such an extravagant valentine was unexpected.From the entry valentine
• One of the most extravagant examples of mortichnia was described from the same limestone in Solnhofen, Bavaria.2017 May 17, Hanneke Meijer, The Guardian. From the entry mortichnium
• Moreover, these over-precise specifications contrast absurdly with the extravagant manner of painting.2010, Wolfgang Ullrich, “Anton Henning and the Mastery of ‘Bad Painting’”, in Anton Henning: MASTERdote / AntiSINGER, London: Haunch of…. From the entry over-precise
• Forget fine dining: even fairly foul dining courtesy of the humble takeaway will seem extravagant.2009 January 5, Jasper Gerard, “Eating out in 2009: the highs and the lows”, in The Telegraph. From the entry fakeaway
• And so the Tamil Nadu Government thought of another, even more extravagant, propitiary ritual.1983 May 9, The Canberra Times, page 4, column 4. From the entry propitiary
• The ‘Jesus freaks’ and other extravagant novities of American religious life.1972 December 22nd, The Times Literary Supplement, column 5, page 1,545. From the entry novity
• An extravagant encomium, of course, but that is what she said.1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter X. From the entry encomium
• English sainthood was sometimes mystical but was never morbid or extravagant.1904, John Douglas Cook, Philip Harwood, Walter Herries Pollock, Saturday review of politics, literature, science and art - Volume 96 -…. From the entry hallowdom
• They are developing the same extravagant tastes which bring the men into trouble.1904, The Coast Review, page 629. From the entry bookkeeperess
• Luscious short brown hair, almond-shaped eyes, gleaming smiles, there is no one as extravagant as her beloved, Bagwis.2020 September, Darcy Encarnacion, “When It Falls”, in Scribbles, volume 1, number 1, Manila: De La Salle University Writers’ Guild, page 14. From the entry fresh
• Willy was a wild and extravagant host.2017, Clare Pooley, The Sober Diaries: How One Woman Stopped Drinking and Started Living, Coronet, →ISBN. From the entry Black Eyed Pea
• In a city that thrives on celebrations, New Orleans boasts its own birthday cake, the extravagant doberge cake.2017, Dixie Poché, Louisiana Sweets: King Cakes, Bread Pudding and Sweet Dough Pie, Arcadia Publishing, →ISBN, page 46. From the entry doberge cake
• Just coincidentally, it also provides the opportunity for the sorts of extravagant computerized effects that create tentpole movie attractions these days.2005 December 3, Todd McCarthy, “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe”, in Variety, retrieved 28 Sep 2012. From the entry tentpole movie
• Her demands and quirks were ever more extravagant and dislocated.1989, Robert McLiam Wilson, Ripley Bogle, Arcade Publishing, published 1998, →ISBN, page 192. From the entry off one's tree
• But what writer of the most extravagant fiction could have thought up such a life as that of William Kiffin?1989, B. A. Ramsbottom, Stranger Than Fiction: The Life of William Kiffin, Gospel Standard Publications, →ISBN, page 7. From the entry truth is stranger than fiction
• Even granting what I hold extravagant, that the two Ev.1980, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, George Whalley, H. J. Jackson, Marginalia - Volume 12, Part 4, page 67. From the entry prosilient
• Carthage too was in the hands of the vaniloquent and extravagant Hasdrubal, gross in appearance and utterly callous.1977, Willy Peremans, Historiographia antiqua. From the entry vaniloquent
• The bed was the most extravagant piece.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC. From the entry cane
• But they were not reticent enough to prevent the circulation of certain uneasy rumours and extravagant stories of discreditable adventures.1922, Rafael Sabatini, “chapter XXV”, in Captain Blood: His Odyssy. From the entry reticent
• The Brobdingnagian pile is the work of Foster+Partners, led by the 90-year-old Norman Foster, who is no stranger to penning extravagant bank headquarters.2025 December 3, Oliver Wainwright, “An eco obscenity: Norman Foster’s steroidal new skyscraper is an affront to the New York skyline”, in…. From the entry brobdingnagian
• Before long, Zarin developed a reputation as an extravagant "high roller" who routinely bet the house maximum while playing craps, his game of choice.1990 October 10, Robert Cowen (Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit), Zarin v. Commissioner, archived from…. From the entry high roller
• Snake fences were extravagant in land and in wood, but wood and land were cheaper in Canada in early days than were nails and hinges.1942, Emily Carr, “Beginnings”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC. From the entry snake fence
• He was remarkably good-looking from the very onset of his manhood and without being in any way a showy spendthrift, was quite magnificently extravagant.1902, H. G. Wells, The Sea Lady. From the entry magnificently
• The brief, a motion for summary judgment in a case stemming from Fox’s egregiously false claims of Dominion-abetted election fraud, offers a portrait of extravagant cynicism.2023 February 17, Michelle Goldberg, “What Fox News Says When You’re Not Listening”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry abet
• In Rio de Janeiro, tens of thousands of spectators jammed into the Sambadrome to watch the spectacle of samba-school floats, dancers, and extravagant costumes during Carnival.2019 March 4, Alan Taylor, “Carnival 2019 in Brazil”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 11 Nov 2020. From the entry bloco
• As we emerge from eight years of extravagant executive claims of unreviewable authority, Congress should be especially scrupulous about having a solid legal basis for controversial actions.2009 January 7, Walter Dellinger, “City of Cold Shoulders”, in New York Times. From the entry unreviewable
• She was too much of a square peg, too loud, too extravagant in her phobias, opinions, rages and oomph and clearly too three-dimensional for the rest of the world.2003 May 18, Margaria Fichtner, “Daughter of a square peg in a small Connecticut town”, in The Herald, Miami, Fla., page 2L, column 1. From the entry housewivery
• His grandson, the extravagant Emperor Chien Lung, greatly enlarged the retreat into an imperial playground five miles in circumference, with fanciful palaces set in pine-forested hills around a lake.1992, Sterling Seagrave, Dragon Lady: The Life and Legend of the Last Empress of China, Papermac, published 1993, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 59–60. From the entry Jehol
• More and more extravagant and obscene material was being accumulated as if to subvert aesthetic notions of civility and decorum with new ideals of inclusive grotesquery and excess.1992, Richard Brown, “Beginnings”, in James Joyce: A Post-Culturalist Perspective (Macmillan Modern Novelists), Basingstoke, Hampshire…. From the entry gargantuanly
• The presupposition of the Prometheus myth is to be found in the extravagant value which a naive humanity attached to fire as the true palladium of every ascending culture.1967, Friedrich Nietzsche, translated by Walter Kaufman, The Birth of Tragedy, published 1872, in 1967. From the entry palladium
• "It is one of the pleasant if quite onerous duties of a man of my position to requite the services he receives—usually on a disproportionately extravagant scale."1938 May, Evelyn Waugh, chapter 4, in Scoop: A Novel about Journalists, uniform edition, London: Chapman & Hall, published 1948 (1951…. From the entry requite
• There were quaint paths, pillared with antic trees, latticed with drolly peering faces of extravagant orchids, that led the seeker to hidden, surprising bowers of goblinry.1938, Clark Ashton Smith, “The Maze of Maâl Dweb”, in A Rendezvous in Averoigne: Best Fantastic Tales of Clark Ashton Smith, Sauk City…. From the entry goblinry
• In view of her circumstances, Carrados could not but deem her rather extravagant, for nothing but a taxi from door to door could explain the promptness of her arrival.1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries. From the entry promptness
• Now, Horn & Udell are responsible for the bloomers your small daughter wears under her play frock, in place of the troublesome and extravagant petticoat of the old days.1917, Edna Ferber, Fanny Herself. From the entry bloomers
• To anger the writer further, the tea dress was seen as extravagant with its only being worn once or twice before a new dress was thought necessary by fashionable ladies.2015, Vicky Straker, Afternoon Tea: A History and Guide to the Great Edwardian Tradition. From the entry tea dress
• He was the most celebrated portrait painter of his day, a notorious ladies' man, obsessed with women, pale beauties dressed in extravagant gowns . . . or nothing at all.2008 March 9, “Klimt And The Golden Art Of Vienna”, in cbsnews.com, archived from the original on 13 Mar 2008. From the entry lady's man

Meaning of extravagant

1. adjective Exceeding the bounds of something; roving; hence, foreign.
2. adjective Extreme; wild; excessive; unrestrained.
3. adjective Exorbitant.

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Questions about extravagant in a sentence

How do you use extravagant in a sentence?

Extravagant is used as an adjective. For example: “The critics were absurdly extravagant with their praise.”

What is a short sentence with extravagant?

“an extravagant man”

What does extravagant mean?

Extravagant means exceeding the bounds of something; roving; hence, foreign.