FLAUNT in a Sentence

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12 example sentences for FLAUNT, such as:

1. Yes, Mrs Flint had flaunted her motherhood.
2. He's got a lot of money but he doesn't flaunt it.
3. And all the information they did flaunt is easily obtainable.
4. He just used that as an excuse to come and flaunt himself and Emmie in her face.
5. They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.

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 Meanings and Examples of FLAUNT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
flaunt
 v.  display proudly or shamelessly; show oneself off
Classic Sentence:
1  As for the lives of one's neighbours, if one wishes to be a prig or a Puritan, one can flaunt one's moral views about them, but they are not one's concern.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 6
2  They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 8
3  He just used that as an excuse to come and flaunt himself and Emmie in her face.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
4  The chief pleasure and necessity of such men, when they encounter anyone who shows animation, is to flaunt their own dreary, persistent activity.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER V
5  Laces and silks and braid and ribbons, all blockade run, all the more precious and more proudly worn because of it, finery flaunted with an added pride as an extra affront to the Yankees.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
6  Yes, Mrs Flint had flaunted her motherhood.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
7  Erect, haughty, brilliant, he flaunted abroad in open day the superhuman bestiality of a ferocious archangel.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—JAVERT SATISFIED
8  She stood back and viewed him with pride, thinking that even Jeb Stuart with his flaunting sash and plume could not look so dashing as her cavalier.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
9  He was much over-dressed, in a gaudy vest of many colors, a blue neckerchief, bedropped gayly with yellow spots, and arranged with a flaunting tie, quite in keeping with the general air of the man.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
10  Hundreds of these handkerchiefs hang dangling from pegs outside the windows or flaunting from the door-posts; and the shelves, within, are piled with them.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
Example Sentence:
1  And all the information they did flaunt is easily obtainable.
2  He's got a lot of money but he doesn't flaunt it.