Example Sentences

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When O'Reilly broke the deadlock, he leapt high, punching the air flamboyantly before jumping on to an advertising hoarding with a flying kick.

From BBC • Mar. 22, 2026

She relocates “The Seagull,” as a program note specifies and her production flamboyantly conveys, “to the self-centered Me Generation of the ’70s that followed the social upheaval of the ’60s.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 16, 2025

He crosses one flamboyantly shod foot over another on his desk with churlish satisfaction and takes a deep draw on his cigar.

From Salon • Jun. 22, 2025

“Many accounts of the wreck of the Bronx may have placed too much stress on Moses because he was so flamboyantly vicious,” he wrote later.

From Slate • Sep. 16, 2024

When I tune back in minutes later, Mom’s telling Jude that unlike Grandma Sweetwine, she’d haunt us flamboyantly and persistently, no quick visits in the car for her.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson