The public had no confidence in the flashy grandson of the great Leonatus, which won the same event in 1883, and neither did his owner Hal Woodford of Paris, Ky.
First Mate ran like the flashy cur that he showed himself to be in all of his races.
They came in all sorts of ways, from the dusty and perspiring footman to the elegant and flashy tally-ho, drawn by four prancing horses.
Presently the flashy man with the red necktie spied her and sauntered past her down the aisle.
But as he entered the door he saw a big man, dressed in the flashy clothes affected by managers of cheap circuses and fake shows, standing at the end of the counter talking to Wiley Creviss.
Her hand was against practically all the world, including her daughter, whose fairy-like daintiness and piquancy were so obvious a contrast to the somewhat coarse and flashybeauty that had once been hers.
Mrs. Bathurst was not flashy now, and any attempt at personal adornment on Dinah's part was always very sternly repressed.
Roughs, to the number of a dozen or so, mostly steamboat-runners and their congeners, are of the party, headed by Flashy Joe.
Then he fished the waters with a will; and it was but a scurvy remark of Flashy Joe, who said that "it was about an even chance whether he took porgy or porgy took him.
He was fascinated by a flashy French adventurer,[58] in whose company he wasted many hours, and the precious stuff of youthful opportunity.
Why, a young flashy Englishman will sometimes carry a whole fortune on his back.
Out on Layte Street the flashy throng was still pouring toward the Fulton Ferry.
His diamond jewels, rakish air and "loose fish" manner bespoke the flush book-maker or the flashy "boss.
Is it not just so much saved from her pocket, toward the purchase of a brass breast-pin, or a flashy dress-bonnet?
As to the fifteen flashy silk robes presented by the Japanese government to ours, I had no desire to get into them.
She told Philip that his friend had no talent really; it was just flashy and superficial; he couldn't compose a figure to save his life.
He thought to himself bitterly that her companion, flashy and jovial, exactly suited her.
The cheap and flashy writer is inclined to disdain the men who are thorough in their studies; but, while his work grows thin and poor, the judicious reader's becomes marked by more and more of richness and fulness.
This last picture weighed on Westray's mind by reason of its size, its faulty drawing, and vulgar, flashy colours.
This flashy dressing in New York not only suggested vanity, but some cunning, I thought, showing the man to be capable of some secrecy and diplomacy.
Dion Chrysostom, a Greek rhetorician of St. Paul's day, mocks the Greeks for the same flashy spirit.
The Greeks, specially those of Asia, as we have already pointed out, were very flashy in their disposition.
The result has been melancholy enough; an inferior, flimsy, and flashy style has been engendered, utterly abhorrent from any sound and true principle of colouring.
In the flashy style, all the force is expended, and visibly so; and as in that excess of power the flash of lightning is but momentary, we cannot long bear the exhibition of such a power rendered continuous.
But then, how few of those who live in flashy new houses in the west require to have libraries in London!
Some of them are models of elegance and taste; others are miracles of flashy and reckless adornment.
The house is palatial, but a trifle flashy in its appointments, and a more luxurious resort is not to be found on the island.
They sport an abundance of flashy jewelry, patronize the cheap places of amusement, and are seen in the low concert saloons, and other vile dens of the city.
Away up towards Prince street you may see the flashy sign of Tony Pastor's Opera House, while from below Canal street the Old Bowery Theatre stands white and glittering in the glare of gas and transparencies.
The walls are ornamented with flashy prints, and the ceiling with colored tissue paper cut in various fantastic shapes.
The agent, a flashy young man, personates his clerk on such occasions.
If the card is cheap or flashy or offensive in any way it arouses prejudice against the man who bears it before he has had a chance to present his case in person.
Certain dull-tinted papers are not bad, but gaudy colors, flashy designs, and ornate letter heads are taboo in all high types of business.
Opening the paper under a street lamp, I found it to be a cheap, vile journal, full offlashy pictures that so often offend the eye on news-stands.
But it seemed to me that Melissa Daggett and her kin with their flashy papers, and the influence of the street for Merton and Bobsey, involved more danger to my little band than all the scalping Modocs that ever whooped.
Mr. Smooth, why (here Belhash wiped his face with a flashy Spitalfields) the Rector used to get all his tea smuggled; nor a bit of harm did he think it.
Here the Squire's face broadened and got redder, and the flashy handkerchief seemed too small for the organic conformation of his big blue-veined neck.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "flashy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
