He found him at Znaim in Moravia, pompously surrounded by the troops, the possession of which he made the Emperor so earnestly to long for.
She respected her father inflexible, much more than her father pompously giving up to Mr Farquhar's subdued remonstrances on her behalf.
It had not been entirely by way of pompously spending his money that Mr Bradshaw had engaged this seaside house.
She made the most grotesque mistakes in science, while pompouslysetting right in their own province such colossal authorities as Darwin and Haeckel.
They know a lot, but what dribbles out of them is very commonplace when it is not pompously silly.
He was prattling pompously of the sunshine in the past, when a sudden heavy shower of hail, falling rather defiantly in spite of his hints, made him lose his temper.
She then pompously demanded a private audience with Sir Hugh, and the young party left the room.
As morning reddened in the eastern sky Don Mario, surrounded by an armed guard and preceded by his secretary, who beat lustily upon a small drum, marched pompously down the main street and across the plaza to the church.
Some moments later he heard a loud tattoo, and soon the Alcalde of the village appeared, marching pompously through the streets, preceded by his tall, black secretary, who was beating lustily upon a small drum.
And as justification for his self-imposed celibacy he pompously quoted Kant: "I am a bachelor, and I could not cease to be a bachelor without a disturbance that would be intolerable to me.
Monceux had pompously administered to the man's simple wants with his own hands.
But, no--Master Monceux pompously gave over the Arab horse with its saddle, and the purse of gold to the victorious beggar; and then turned to leave the sports.
In the country these modest hills are pompously called "the mountains.
Their surgeons in grey pompously paraded the streets.
More from habit than anything else they had waited that next night for him to come and clear his throat pompously and open the evening's activities.
All persons were pompously commanded to stand back from the door; but I had a sturdy set of friends now to support me, and they stood as firm as a rock, and almost as immovable.
So that when old Batchgrew, without any warning or preliminary sound, stalked pompously into the room their young confusion was excessive.
Rachel, flushing far redder than that rich hair of hers, and paced pompously out of the room, her face working violently.
The mighty Potentate, to whom belong These rich regaliapompously display'd To kindle that high hope?
He stumbled over millions, and dwelt pompously over farthings.
Later on, they might affect reconciliation, and Temple might pompously announce to the world that the Brethren were reunited.
Mr. Johnson," he pompously directed, "you will please attend to this little matter as soon as possible.
In the meantime, the Consolidated Illuminating and Power Company went pompously on.
We're beginning with a capital of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars," and rather pompously he spread the check upon the desk.
He sent round prospectuses to his friends whenever he took a new trade, and ordered a new brass plate for the door, and talked pompously about making his fortune still.
As each pompously named official knelt and begged permission to kiss the Prince's hand, Charles gracefully threw his arms upon their shoulders instead, and raised them from the ground.
But Collins, ignoring the question, continued to talkpompously to the new arrivals.
To their eyes the famous Mr. Bence was the natural chieftain of any assemblage, no matter how pompously anybody else talked.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pompously" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
