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148 example sentences for FLATTER, such as:

1. Perry would always flatter Mrs.
2. She was flattered by his attention.
3. You flatter yourself, Captain Butler.
4. The picture certainly doesn't flatter her.
5. She only flatters you so you will help her.

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 Meanings and Examples of FLATTER
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
flatter
 v.  compliment someone, often insincerely and sometimes to win favor; enhance someone's vanity by praising them
Classic Sentence: (133 in 9 pages)
1  You're an artful little puss to flatter and wheedle your cross old sister in that way.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
2  I flatter myself I'm a 'gentleman growed' as Peggotty said of David, and when you see Amy, you'll find her rather a precocious infant, said Laurie, looking amused at her maternal air.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-THREE
3  And now you, you unfortunate old man, since fate has brought you to my door, do not try to flatter me in this way with vain hopes.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XIV
4  Now, when any vicious simpleton excites my disgust by his paltry ribaldry, I cannot flatter myself that I am better than he: I am forced to confess that he and I are on a level.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
5  This is the only point, I flatter myself, on which we do not agree.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
6  This has been my motive, my fair cousin, and I flatter myself it will not sink me in your esteem.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
7  You must give me leave to flatter myself, my dear cousin, that your refusal of my addresses is merely words of course.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
8  I flatter myself at least that you will be able to do so.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 38
9  No one but Jane, she thought, could flatter herself with such an expectation.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 46
10  Even you, Nelly, if we have a dispute sometimes, you back Isabella at once; and I yield like a foolish mother: I call her a darling, and flatter her into a good temper.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
11  And from what I heard, Joseph contributed much to his deterioration, by a narrow-minded partiality which prompted him to flatter and pet him, as a boy, because he was the head of the old family.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
12  Madam, you flatter yourself, I do not want to marry you or anyone else.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
13  You flatter yourself, Captain Butler.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
14  "Oh, he's harmless if you flatter him and act like you depend on him," said Melanie.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIII
15  Instead of having to flatter, she would be flattered; instead of being grateful, she would receive thanks.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
Example Sentence:
1  We flatter ourselves that we provide the best service in town.
2  He may well be contented who need neither borrow nor flatter.
3  If you flatter your mother a bit she might invite us all to dinner.
4  The picture certainly doesn't flatter her.
5  Perry would always flatter Mrs.
6  He reached a flatter section of land near the river.
7  I cannot flatter myself that I am better than he: I am forced to confess that he and I are on a level.
8  When flatterers meet, the devil goes to dinner.
9  Harry is flattered to have been given the manager's job, but if he makes one mistake they'll throw him to the wolves.
10  And, Miss Eyre, so much was I flattered by this preference of the Gallic sylph for her British gnome, that I installed her in an hotel.
11  She was flattered by his attention.
12  Some styles are so flattering that they instantly become classics.
13  It is dangerous crisis when a proud heart meets with flattering lips.
14  The descriptions of her were less than flattering.
15  She only flatters you so you will help her.