Sample sentences for FLAMBOYANT

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showy; or excessively ornamented — especially brilliantly colorful

My stocking seams were straight, my black shoes cracked, but polished, and my red wool suit flamboyant as my plans.
Sylvia Plath -- The Bell Jar

Be noisy, leaves, as you flutter down— Still more flamboyantly, with more abandon!
Boris Pasternak -- Doctor Zhivago
When Marie-Laure got pregnant, they separated peaceably, with no flamboyance.
Anthony Doerr -- All the Light We Cannot See
The colour of flamboyant flowers.
Jean Rhys -- Wide Sargasso Sea
The place was vintage Woolf, decorated floor to ceiling in flamboyant cowboy memorabilia.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Seabiscuit
The situation remained fairly stable until the flamboyant arrival of Lonna Leep, who'd spotted her son on the TV news.
Carl Hiassen -- Hoot
He was withered, drawn; she flamboyant, careless.
Virginia Woolf -- To the Lighthouse
Yet like children we tell each other stories, and to decorate them we make up these ridiculous, flamboyant, beautiful phrases.
Virginia Woolf -- The Waves
At breakfast we could watch the flamboyant tree and lavender-cotton catch fire.
Michael Ondaatje -- Running in the Family
"Stenton found this one first," she said about the octopus, which was now rising from the floor, slowly, flamboyantly.
Dave Eggers -- The Circle
By and by, I recognized the Sherpa as Fischer's flamboyant sirdar, Lo sang Jangbu, and the climber in yellow as Sandy Pittman.
Jon Krakauer -- Into Thin Air
Her taste in clothes was sound rather than flamboyant, but I considered the suit smashing, and would have nothing else.
Russell Baker -- Growing Up
I'm going to stop being excitable and flamboyant.
Pat Conroy -- The Lords of Discipline
The mirrors, the pictures had great flamboyant frames; the ceiling was deeply vaulted and painted over with naked muses and cherubs.
Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volumes 1 & 2
As was normal, the handwriting on each ballot was disguised by block printing or flamboyant script.
Dan Brown -- Angels & Demons
When they shouted, "Do it again, Uncle Travis!" he jumped to his feet with equal flamboyance.
Nicholas Sparks -- The Choice
I imagined the kind of people who went to concerts might be quite arty and flamboyant.
Jojo Moyes -- Me Before You
That flamboyant ego, for which he was both loved and despised, never deserted him.
John F. Kennedy -- Profiles in Courage
He was worried, for all his flamboyance.
Sinclair Lewis -- Arrowsmith
There was Dostum, the flamboyant Uzbek commander, leader of the Junbish-i-Milli faction, who had a reputation for shifting allegiances.
Khaled Hosseini -- A Thousand Splendid Suns

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