Sample Sentences for
flamboyant
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    Hammond was flamboyant, a born showman, and back in 1983 he had had an elephant that he carried around with him in a little cage.  (source)
    flamboyant = showy (attention-getting)
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    I had expected someone flamboyant, someone older trying desperately to look young, someone who viewed me as a piece of meat to be prepared for a platter.  (source)
    flamboyant = showy (trying to attract attention)
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    The situation remained fairly stable until the flamboyant arrival of Lonna Leep, who'd spotted her son on the TV news.  (source)
    flamboyant = showy (attention-getting)
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    But the big kids, the ones that were on teams, they were wearing much more flamboyant clothing.  (source)
    flamboyant = showy (attention-getting)
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    Having reached their side of the street, he strode off along the pavement, drawing many curious glances due to the flamboyantly cut suit of plum velvet that he was wearing.  (source)
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    When Marie-Laure got pregnant, they separated peaceably, with no flamboyance.  (source)
    flamboyance = showy quality that attracts attention
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    The flamboyants, I remember, were in full bloom.†  (source)
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    He's pleasant looking and tallish, his dress unflamboyant but neat and usually color coordinated.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unflamboyant means not and reverses the meaning of flamboyant. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    I imagined the kind of people who went to concerts might be quite arty and flamboyant.  (source)
    flamboyant = showy (tending to attract attention)
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    The Old Duke had turned his back on the horns, cape thrown flamboyantly over one arm, while cheers rained down from the stands.†  (source)
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    If he had come from around here, if his father had farmed and he had inherited his father's farm, his relative flamboyance, like his musical talent, would have been something for the neighbors to be a little proud of, evidence of native genius rather than suspect strangeness.†  (source)
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    There's something about the vegetation, too, that I respond to instinctively—the stunning bougainvillea, the flamboyants and jacarandas, the orchids growing from the trunks of the mysterious ceiba trees.†  (source)
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    An important by-product of the unflamboyant language is to make the proper names stand out in the line.†  (source)
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