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How to use pompous in a sentence

18 example sentences · adjective

Pompous means affectedly grand, solemn or self-important. Example: “Someone should carjack that pompous jerk and teach him a lesson!”

More sentences with pompous

  • Someone should carjack that pompous jerk and teach him a lesson!From the entry carjack
  • The student's lexiphanicism is an obvious attempt to appear smart but really only serves to make him look pompous.From the entry lexiphanicism
  • Writers who overload their sentences with nominalizations tend to sound pompous and abstract.2012 July 23, Helen Sword, “Zombie Nouns”, in NY Times. From the entry nominalization
  • Sounding quite pompous, he continued, “The devil cannot remain at Thorn hall.2011, Regina Jeffers, The Scandal of Lady Eleanor, page 259. From the entry facinorousness
  • They were cavernous and brightly lit and the facades lining them were pompous and hueful.2004, Sphyrex of Shobol, Vagabond: Psalms of the Dreamers: Abridged(earth Edition) - Page 4. From the entry hueful
  • Lord Shelburne admits that he read a great deal, chiefly "out of the waybooks of science and pompous poetry."2018, James Alexander Lovat-Fraser, John Staurt Earl of Bute, page 95. From the entry waybook
  • Pompous sentimental muck well worthy of George Lucas himself.2003, Frank Plowright, The Slings & Arrows Comic Guide, Slings & Arrows, →ISBN, page 125. From the entry Warsie
  • His voice took on the wooden, pompous tones of a television superhero giving a lecture on the evils of badthink.1967, Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, volume 80, page 66. From the entry badthink
  • That is good Menzian legalese, as pompous as parody permits.1937 October 9, Smith's Weekly, Sydney, page 12, column 1. From the entry Menzian
  • Whereas the first part of the dance is light and vivacious, the mood now turns more pompous, with heavy off-beats in the secondo right hand.2005, Johannes Brahms, Carol Bell, Digby Bell, Hungarian Dances, Volume 1, page 12. From the entry secondo
  • Ash cautioned wine and food fans to ignore “smelliers,” his less-than-kind term for pompous wine snobs who intentionally intimidate those without a degree in wine-ology.2003 March 27, Dee Hobsbawn-Smith, “John Ash: Out of the classroom, Into the fire”, in Calgary Herald, page E7. From the entry wine-ology
  • Thus motivated, he began to really distinguish himself as a pompous prat on Atrocities, Christian Death's darkhearted return to the somber cesspool of slow-paced grimness.1991, Ira A. Robbins, The Trouser Press Record Guide, →ISBN, page 127. From the entry darkhearted
  • At least one is spared the tediosity (what a very fine sentiment) of their pompous ramblings by not being able to understand a single word.1990 July 13, Chris Moncrieff, “Inside Politics”, in Evening Post, number 34,774, Nottingham, Notts, page 6. From the entry tediosity
  • Richard Wood is a pompous Dr.1984 June 22, Simon Saltzman, “‘Design for Living’ beguiles, but never shocks, audience”, in Daily Record, volume 84, number 364, page 17…. From the entry Dr. Watson-ish
  • If he expected either of them to fall on his neck and weep tears of gratitude at his pompous announcement, the colonel was disappointed.1910, William MacLeod Raine, chapter 15, in Bucky O'Connor. From the entry fall on someone's neck
  • He had seen her but in places comparatively great—in her aunt's pompous house, under the high trees of Kensington and the storied ceilings of Venice.1902, Henry James, The Wings of the Dove. From the entry ancientry
  • Toad in The Wind in the Willows, such a silly, pompous queen, and even Randall Jarrell's The Animal Family has a lot to say about non-human and non-nuclear arrangements.1986 December 7, Michael Bronsky, “Gay Man's Dream Realized in Benefit Production of archy and mehitabel"”, in Gay Community News, volume…. From the entry nuclear
  • Everyone in the story is absolutely outside time, everything in it is terribly old-fashioned and affected, the "hero" with all of his experiences is infinitely shallow, pompous, and low-standard.1963, Foreign Press Digest: Soviet Union, page 44. From the entry unhero

Meaning of pompous

  1. adjective Affectedly grand, solemn or self-important.

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Questions about pompous in a sentence

How do you use pompous in a sentence?
Pompous is used as an adjective. For example: “Someone should carjack that pompous jerk and teach him a lesson!”
What is a short sentence with pompous?
“Richard Wood is a pompous Dr.”
What does pompous mean?
Pompous means affectedly grand, solemn or self-important.

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