extravagances
- plural of extravagance.
Example Sentences
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Extravagances included reams of Peter Dunham and Raoul Textiles that she artfully tailored into shades and curtains — as well as bedcovers from India sourced at Hollywood at Home on La Cienega Boulevard.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 3, 2020
Extravagances of this Nature are no Beauties in any Kind of Writing, much less in Characteristics.
From A Critical Essay on Characteristic-Writings From his translation of The Moral Characters of Theophrastus (1725) by Chorney, Alexander H.
Extravagances obviously unnatural and merely for the sake of fun.
From The Dramatic Values in Plautus by Blancké, Wilton Wallace
Under a Disguise, they break through their Natural Gravity, and fall heartily into all the Follies and Extravagances of these occasions.
From The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... by Sala, George Augustus
Extravagances of the Apocalyptics, Preadamites, Millenarians, etc.—He who would base extravagant opinions on Scripture, will, for example, base them on this.
From Pascal's Pensées by Pascal, Blaise
