How to use flair in a sentence
36 example sentences · noun, verb
Flair means a natural or innate talent or aptitude. Example: “Each writer offers a unique flair to readers.”
Examples of flair by meaning
nounA natural or innate talent or aptitude.
- to have a flair for art
- As a detective, his flair had been extraordinary, and he had achieved triumphs by unravelling some of the most baffling cases of the day.1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 21
- The French certainly had a flair for labeling their unhappiness.1999, Lucy Honig, The Truly Needy And Other Stories, University of Pittsburgh Press, →ISBN, page 73
nounDistinctive style or elegance.
- to dress with flair
- Each writer offers a unique flair to readers.
- You know what, Stan, if you want me to wear 37 pieces of flair, like your pretty boy over there, Brian, why don't you just make the minimum 37 pieces of flair?1999, Mike Judge, Office Space, spoken by Joanna (Jennifer Aniston)
verbTo add flair.
- Place your thumb on top of the shank and your bent index finger under the hair and pull the tying thread tight to flair it.1988, Poul Jorgensen, Poul Jorgensen's Book of Fly Tying: A Guide to Flies for All Game Fish
More sentences with flair
- Lucinda sewed rhinestones into her scarf to add a bit of flair.From the entry rhinestone
- From World-renown chef Gordon Fukayami come Roppongi, a bistro house with a South Asian flair.2013 October 6, Matt McKenna, “Poltergasm” (4:21 from the start), in American Dad!, season 10, episode 2, spoken by Announcer. From the entry funny bone
- This filling dish features tomato-saucy pasta with lots of lemony ground lamb for a Greek flair.2013, Jean Paré, The Essential Company’s Coming Slow Cooker, volume 1, Edmonton, Alta.: Company’s Coming Publishing Limited, →ISBN, page 155. From the entry tomato-saucy
- The young Spaniard's vivacity and flair is the perfect foil to Federer's stoicism and meticulousness.2006 July 9, Jim Ryan, “Federer's game has no weaknesses”, in SportingNews. From the entry manpris
- Flair and Paisley flirted until Daffney crotched David from behind with a baseball bat.2002, Pat McNeill, The Tables All Were Broken=, page 4. From the entry crotch
- The flair for bright batting went against them as they fell easy prey to the Aussie pacemen.1976, The Statesman, volume 22, page 47. From the entry paceman
- She had turned herself back into a virgin again, with that flair for backwardness of hers.1966, David R. Slavitt, Rochelle: or, Virtue Rewarded, Chapman and Hall, published 1966, page 118. From the entry unicorn bait
- It is a canard trotted out by lazy or tendentious journalists that nationalised British Railways lacked entrepreneurial flair.2021 November 17, Anthony Lambert, “How do we grow the leisure market?”, in RAIL, number 944, page 37. From the entry canard
- McEwan certainly has a flair for unusual points of view.2019 April 23, Heller McAlpin, “In McEwan's Latest, The 'Machine' Is Too Much Like You”, in NPR. From the entry perspicacity
- Flair and invention were very much at a premium, suffocated by the relentless pace and often fractious nature of proceedings.2014 November 14, Stephen Halliday, “Scotland 1-0 Republic of Ireland: Maloney the hero”, in The Scotsman. From the entry department
- Perhaps the Viennese didn't have a flair for beer.2014, Jörg Fauser, Jamie Bulloch, Raw Material, London: Clerkenwell Press, →ISBN. From the entry slivovitz
- But he wouldn’t be a great cricketer; he was just a trundler, really, accurate enough, but no flair.2010, Kate De Goldi, chapter 8, in The 10 p.m. Question, Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press, page 217. From the entry trundler
- His mother always had a flair for interior design.2010, JoAnna Christine Daniels, The Gateway, →ISBN, page 6. From the entry beachside
- On “Train” it displays heavy-metal flair, and the singer Brad Arnold achieves a blueslike informality that bespeaks his Mississippi roots.2008 May 26, Jon Pareles, “New CDs”, in New York Times. From the entry blueslike
- Situated on the lower end of the Bosporus, its maze of narrow streets and old wooden houses retain an Oriental flair.2000 October 8, Douglas Frantz, “Two Continents, Three Days”, in The New York Times. From the entry Uskudar
- Greer is an aggressive fielder with a flair for making diving catches coming in and wall-slamming catches going back.1998, Sports Team Analysis and Tracking Systems, Inc., “Rusty Greer”, in John Dewan, Don Zminda, Jim Callis, editors, The Scouting…. From the entry wall-slam
- The result is an eclectic home with a flair for the unusual and not a few touches of humor.1988, Lorrie Baird, “Governor's Island Living”, in New Hampshire Profiles, volume 37, part 1, →ISSN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 22. From the entry fun house
- Cheese-filled battered eggplant rolls with a tomato-saucy flair.1980, “[Vegetable Dishes and Casseroles] Eggplant Italiano”, in Yankee Church Supper Cookbook, Emmaus, Pa.: Rodale Press, published 1991…. From the entry tomato-saucy
- Montreal, where French and English have not merged but coexist in ‘two solitudes,’ has Latin flair but British solidity.1976, J. Wreford Watson, “Review: The Development of the Canadian City”, in The Geographical Journal, volume 142, number 3, page 509. From the entry two solitudes
- Joan Baez's frugging on several occasions gave the festival the added flair of an Arthur Murray Dance Party.1965 August, Mississippi Phil Ochs, “The Newport Fuzz Festival”, in The Realist, number 61, retrieved 13 Nov 2022, page 12. From the entry frug
- "The montante has a certain flair.2020, Kat Ross, Balthazar's Bane, Kat Ross, →ISBN. From the entry montante
- On his fourth run, Robinson pulled a no-handed back flip over the ramp’s 70-foot gap and launched a flair 18 feet above the 27-foot quarterpipe.2007 August 4, Matt Higgins, “Dramatic Fall Exposes the Risk in Extreme Sports”, in New York Times. From the entry quarterpipe
- Flair is a natural characteristic, but an inability to efficiently applicate it has often rendered such exuberant talent as effective as a glass sun shade.2004 May 30, Richard Wilson, “Sunshine on Leith”, in The Sunday Times, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, Sport section, page 3. From the entry applicate
- Flair and Anderson Cage was good.1995 October 10, Bill Hacket, “NITRO ROCKED THIS WEEK!!!”, in rec.sport.pro-wrestling (Usenet). From the entry incrazysane
- Samson was again supreme, backing up his 97 not out against West Indies and 89 against England with another innings that mixed flair with a classical technique.2026 March 8, Matthew Henry, “Superb India crush New Zealand to defend T20 title”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 08 Mar 2026. From the entry not out
- “Andy Rausch has a tight noir style that combines gritty, realistic drama with a cinematic flair that makes for a powerful, compelling (somewhat Stephen Kingesque), authentically visual reading experience.”2016, Josh Hancock, The Devil and My Daughter, Bridgeport, WV: Burning Bulb Publishing, →ISBN, page 224. From the entry Stephen Kingesque
- Possibly because of his bourgeois origins, Hanecki had a remarkable financial flair, and extraordinary grasp of money matters—a quality as valuable as it was rare in a revolutionary.1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 178. From the entry pyrotechnic
- The manager pushed his waiter aside, grabbed some menus, draped a linen napkin over his arm, and with the flair of a maitre d’hotel, escorted us to a prominent table.2016, Jerry Eckert, “‘If I Have Served My People - - -’”, in Weeping Kings and Wild Boars: Moments of Magic and Sorrow in Forty Years…. From the entry maitre d'hotel
- A knife is especially important during the melon season, when it is produced with a ceremonial flair and thoroughly cleaned before use by cutting off the base of a melon.1993, Judy Bonavia, The Silk Road From Xi'an to Kashgar, Passport Books, NTC Publishing Group, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 276. From the entry Yengisar
Meaning of flair
- noun A natural or innate talent or aptitude.
- noun Distinctive style or elegance.
- noun Smell; odor.
Questions about flair in a sentence
- How do you use flair in a sentence?
- Flair is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Each writer offers a unique flair to readers.”
- What is a short sentence with flair?
- “to dress with flair”
- What does flair mean?
- Flair means a natural or innate talent or aptitude.
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