Example Sentences

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It is also self-indulgent, self-aggrandizing and pyrotechnically mean-spirited.

From Washington Post • Jan. 29, 2020

Technically no more than an extended dialogue, pyrotechnically it constitutes a splendid show.

From Time Magazine Archive

Years ago, in Paris, his posters of Sarah Bernhardt as Gismonda and La Samaritaine took him pyrotechnically to fame.

From Time Magazine Archive

The quiet stranger had sprawled very pyrotechnically out on the sidewalk.

From Maggie, a Girl of the Streets by Crane, Stephen

The money requisite for the construction of elevated roads having been thus pyrotechnically obtained, the acquisition of franchises remained no easy matter.

From The Titan by Dreiser, Theodore