EXTRAVAGANT in a Sentence
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66 example sentences for EXTRAVAGANT, such as:
1. Her beliefs were not extravagant.
2. He paid an extravagant sum for her, to be sure.
3. He's always railing against his wife about her extravagance.
4. I go to that restaurant for lunch if I'm feeling extravagant.
5. Yes, but my lord will find that he can't be extravagant with me.
2. He paid an extravagant sum for her, to be sure.
3. He's always railing against his wife about her extravagance.
4. I go to that restaurant for lunch if I'm feeling extravagant.
5. Yes, but my lord will find that he can't be extravagant with me.
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Meanings and Examples of EXTRAVAGANT
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extravagant
a. recklessly wasteful
a. unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings
Classic Sentence: (53 in 4 pages)
1 She laughed and joked and almost but not quite coquetted with a one-eyed soldier who gladly repaid her efforts with extravagant gallantries.
2 The lady's offences were always against taste rather than conduct; her divorce record seemed due to geographical rather than ethical conditions; and her worst laxities were likely to proceed from a wandering and extravagant good-nature.
3 The chintz-lined, silver-fitted bag which had seemed so desirable a luxury in St. Paul was an extravagant vanity here.
4 I didn't want her ring, and I felt there was something reckless and extravagant about her wishing to give it away to a boy she had never seen before.
5 She was extravagant, of course, but he hoped she wouldn't squander everything, and have nothing left when she was old.
6 Don't let us get anything new; you are too extravagant.
7 His busy mind had drawn for him large pictures extravagant in color, lurid with breathless deeds.
8 He has wild, extravagant notions about things, particularly about the treatment of servants.
9 Yes, but my lord will find that he can't be extravagant with me.
10 He paid an extravagant sum for her, to be sure.
11 Then she tore her hair and beat her breast, and abandoned herself to all the violences of extravagant emotion.
12 Her beliefs were not extravagant.
13 He told his hearers that he was there that evening for no terrifying, no extravagant purpose; but as a man of the world speaking to his fellow-men.
14 So, unless they swallowed the wire itself, or made loops of it to snare the fishes with, I don't see what good their extravagant salary could be to them.
15 Besides, all I said, though it sounded extravagant, was absolutely true to fact.
Example Sentence:
1 Waste of time is the most extravagant and costly of all expenses.
2 Residents were warned not to be extravagant with water, in view of the low rainfall this year.
3 That was very extravagant of you to buy strawberries out of season.
4 I go to that restaurant for lunch if I'm feeling extravagant.
5 We are not extravagant; restaurant meals are a luxury and designer clothes are out.
6 Don't be so extravagant; spend your money more carefully.
7 He's always railing against his wife about her extravagance.
8 Economy is the poor man' s mint; and extravagance the rich man ' s pitfall.
9 I would rather have my people laugh at my economies than weep for my extravagance.
10 Economy the poor man's mints; extravagance the rich man's pitfall.
11 When the company went under, tales of his extravagance surged through the industry.
12 Her savings has dwindled away over the years as the result of her extravagance.
13 They're an extravagance if you choose to ingest them; on average, restaurants are charging about $7 per gram of white truffles, tacking $60 to $125 onto your $20 to $30 risotto.