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Example sentences for "ostentatiously"

Lexicographically close words:
ostendit; ostensible; ostensibly; ostentation; ostentatious; osteological; osteology; osteomyelitis; osteopathic; osteopathy
  1. She knows that he who is so ostentatiously parading his admiration regards her but as a purchased instrument to minister to his gratification.

  2. Intrigues were concealed, not ostentatiously paraded before the public eye; and the ladies by whom she was surrounded were obliged to lead at least outwardly decorous lives.

  3. Watch-fires gleamed amongst the bushes, we were thrust into a doubly-guarded house, and bows and arrows were ostentatiously levelled so as to rake the doorway, should we attempt to escape.

  4. The blacksmiths, who had been ostentatiously making long knives at the forge hard by, were dismissed; troops were said to be arriving at Dorjiling, and a letter sternly demanding our release bad been received.

  5. So he stood well out to sea, ostentatiously flying the English flag, and giving friendly salutes to any chance vessels that came in his course.

  6. But just as Aladdin doubtless rubbed his lamp at times for show, there were occasions when I was ostentatiously liberal.

  7. Now he is expected to smoke the same; and he takes his revenge by ostentatiously offering me a Celebro when I call on him.

  8. He stuck it ostentatiously in the leather belt he had bought at Botzen to complete his costume; as he went on his way, he fingered it ever and anon with affectionate familiarity.

  9. The prima donna’s first appearance on the stage as the Beggar Maid, lightly clad in a graceful though ostentatiously simple costume, was the signal for a burst of irrepressible applause from stalls, boxes, and gallery.

  10. When I'm ready to snare my bird, you can dismiss me a little ostentatiously for New York.

  11. Then it was seen glistening on Suky's hand as she ostentatiously fanned herself.

  12. On the sofa was a freshly laundried pile of shirts with detached collars and cuffs, which Mrs. Stone immediately began ostentatiously to snip along the frayed edges.

  13. Never mind," said Isabel, as Gwynne mopped his brow for the third time and ostentatiously rubbed his face.

  14. He was a very small man, and he carried ostentatiously a very large pistol, which he would often draw and exhibit.

  15. I used to be ostentatiously independent; now I am only independent enough.

  16. She thought she had not perhaps been sufficiently good, and she tried to be more ostentatiously satisfied with her lot.

  17. His leg (the wrong leg, as Grizel remembered at once) was extended on a chair in front of him; but instead of nursing it ostentatiously as so many would have done, he made humourous remarks at its expense.

  18. While speaking, from a jacket pocket he brought out the fan Lael had thrown him from the portico, and used it somewhat ostentatiously to cool himself.

  19. For one thing, it was elevated ostentatiously far above the road-level upon terraces surmounted by a flight of stone steps.

  20. There is something very sweet and juvenile and innocent and pretty about these little tinsel vanities, these grave apings of monarchical fuss and feathers and ceremony, here on our ostentatiously democratic soil.

  21. Nay, not only is he doin this, but he is ostentatiously displayin a purse apparently as well filled as the last one.

  22. Still, however, there was nothing to alarm, and little to engage the attention of Juliet; for though ostentatiously gallant, he was scrupulously decorous.

  23. In fact, he had such a detestation of that sort of thing that he went to the other extreme, and marched ostentatiously past Mr Durfy's table, as though to challenge his observation.

  24. To this gentleman, Stubb was now politely introduced by the Guernsey-man, who at once ostentatiously put on the aspect of interpreting between them.

  25. But whatever want of elegance there may have been in the exterior of the imperial dwellings, it was amply compensated by the interior, in which all the opulence of the Peruvian princes was ostentatiously displayed.

  26. Thus did their pious labors prove them the true soldiers of the Cross, and showed that the object so ostentatiously avowed of carrying its banner among the heathen nations was not an empty vaunt.

  27. A few weeks' association with the votaries of fashion would effectually eradicate the meritorious sentiments, and teach hypocritical sensibility to fictitious griefs to be ostentatiously substituted for genuine susceptibility.

  28. With a swift, almost defiant movement she lifted her head, and turned ostentatiously to Deerehurst.

  29. Asshlin ostentatiously helped himself to some ham, "I hope, James, that whatever our environments, we still understand the traditions of hospitality.

  30. As they crossed the kitchen, Hannah defiantly passed the corner of her apron across her eyes and ostentatiously resumed her interrupted work.

  31. To such considerations as these the principles, which he had, during his whole life, ostentatiously professed, now gave way.

  32. To the success of William's vast and profound scheme of policy it was necessary that James should ruin himself by rejecting conditions ostentatiously liberal.

  33. In truth the snare was so ostentatiously exhibited that it could impose on nothing but folly bewildered by terror.


  34. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ostentatiously" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.