How to Use flamboyant in a Sentence

flamboyant

adjective
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  • Pepitone, the flamboyant first baseman of the Yankees, died at the age of 82.
    — Dan Shaughnessy, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Carey is the band’s most joyful performer and its most flamboyant.
    — Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2024
  • A lot of gay men — even out gay men — go into certain spaces and pull back on the flamboyant.
    — Tyler Coates, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Duke Knuth was the most flamboyant man in 1960s Anchorage.
    — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 5 June 2022
  • Would the perennial losers have been attractive to the Big 12 if not for their flamboyant coach?
    — Joe Freeman, oregonlive, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Count Volpe's wool shirt is more flamboyant as a result, with an ornate green vest, striped trousers, and a fur coat.
    — Brielle Diskin, The Week, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Their transformations from brown to green, dull to flamboyant, follow the rhythms of rain and fire, not the predictable march of the seasons.
    — Julia Rosen, The Atlantic, 25 July 2022
  • Momoa plays Dante like a flamboyant Disney villain, which is a cute change of pace but fits uneasily in the world of the movie.
    — Christian Holub, EW.com, 17 May 2023
  • The dancers are flamboyant under the critical eye of Clive (Nathan Lee Graham).
    — Kaely Monahan, The Arizona Republic, 17 July 2023
  • But this wasn’t a vacation for the 54-year-old flamboyant former Vice CEO to drown his sorrows.
    — Lachlan Cartwright, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Feb. 2024
  • And Babou’s nightclub is a flamboyant spot — maybe a wealthy friend’s secret hideaway.
    — Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 15 June 2023
  • This 19-year-old has style in her genes and knew how to show it off with a flamboyant red dress that screamed empowerment in a visual way.
    — Teresa Romero Martínez, Glamour, 7 Jan. 2024
  • With no room for their more flamboyant dance moves, the fish resorted to a lot of head bobbing and scanning with their schnauzenorgan.
    — Elizabeth Anne Brown, Scientific American, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Elvis was so flamboyant a performer that in this movie, Luhrmann is more restrained than in his other films such as Moulin Rouge.
    — Tom Teicholz, Forbes, 29 June 2022
  • Sabering is the art of using a saber, or some other nifty tool, to open a bottle of sparkling wine in the most flamboyant way possible.
    — oregonlive, 27 Jan. 2023
  • The two clashed over Ben’s more flamboyant sense of style as well as his interest in more modern jazz, which might as well have been punk rock in the Jaffe household.
    — Brett Martin, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2022
  • And here was this flamboyant gay man who was completely loved and admired and worshiped.
    — Rebecca Keegan, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Sep. 2023
  • The most recent — and grandest — is a flamboyant portrait by Francisco de Goya, now on view in the mansion.
    — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2023
  • His latest work, the raunchy and flamboyant dramedy Kaymak, seems destined for the same fate.
    — Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Oct. 2022
  • Both Hobeika’s play with large flamboyant shapes and fitted silhouettes that hug the body.
    — Allyson Portee, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Blanco was known for her flamboyant lifestyle — one of her sons was named Michael Corleone, an homage to The Godfather movies.
    — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Good to know: Gressett’s initial audition with the judges was flamboyant and over the top, causing all three to raise their eyebrows.
    — Mary Colurso | McOlurso@al.com, al, 18 Aug. 2022
  • In any event, Lyles would save his most flamboyant celebration for after the race in the 200 at the World Championships in Eugene last month.
    — Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online, 11 Aug. 2022
  • The labels that managers flocked to could be pricey—Prada, Zegna, Armani—but the clothes were no more flamboyant than what a politician might wear.
    — Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 2 Dec. 2022
  • The Lamborghini Aventador, wrapped in Power Rangers imagery, is one of the flamboyant pieces among the lot.
    — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 8 Oct. 2023
  • In addition to his love of flamboyant clothing, Harry Styles is known for having a lot of tattoos.
    — Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 31 July 2023
  • For outsiders looking in, drag culture looks fun and flamboyant.
    — Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2022
  • Returns sidelines Wayne more, cutting his screen time in favor of the flamboyant villains.
    — Vulture, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The film is somehow sparse and flamboyant at the same time; viewers may feel conflicting impulses of being charmed and repulsed.
    — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The same goes for his appetite: As with his razzle-dazzle style, the King's culinary tastes ventured into the flamboyant and idiosyncratic.
    — Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 24 July 2023

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