Sample Sentences for
flaunt
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    She flaunts her wealth.
    flaunts = shows off
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    When the future finally arrived, they didn't flaunt their modest wealth, but they bought nice clothes, some jewelry for Billie, a Cadillac.  (source)
    flaunt = show off
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    Silvers are supposed to fight bravely, to flaunt their skills, to put on a good show—but not die.  (source)
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    The trees rimming the outfield were flaunting their colors.  (source)
    flaunting = showing off
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    She stalks away, muttering about twits who flaunt regulation.  (source)
    flaunt = openly ignore
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    Flaunted the moment with the berries in the Capitol's face?  (source)
    Flaunted = showed off in a defiant way
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    All night, he kept yelling, "Flaunt it, baby!"  (source)
    Flaunt it = show it off
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    The flaunts, the taunts, the poses, they were all part of the lie.†  (source)
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    Lo, Victress on the Peaks Lo, Victress on the peaks, Where thou with mighty brow regarding the world, (The world O Libertad, that vainly conspired against thee,) Out of its countless beleaguering toils, after thwarting them all, Dominant, with the dazzling sun around thee, Flauntest now unharm'd in immortal soundness and bloom—lo, in these hours supreme, No poem proud, I chanting bring to thee, nor mastery's rapturous verse, But a cluster containing night's darkness and blood-dripping wounds, And psalms of the dead.†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-est" is dropped, so that where they said "Thou flauntest" in older English, today we say "You flaunt."
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    Their bearing, which was simply the bearing of commonplace individuals going about their business in the assurance of perfect safety, was offensive to me like the outrageous flauntings of folly in the face of a danger it is unable to comprehend.†  (source)
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    Instead of the soaring lines reaching for heaven, demanded by the very nature of a temple, as a symbol of man's quest for something higher than his little ego, this building is flauntingly horizontal, its belly in the mud, thus declaring its allegiance to the carnal, glorifying the gross pleasures of the flesh above those of the spirit.†  (source)
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    One girl, bolder than the others, answered him, flaunting her knowledge of the white man's language.  (source)
    flaunting = showing off
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    It would be a shame not to flaunt her newly slim figure in the privacy of her opulent surroundings.  (source)
    flaunt = show off
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