showy

Example Sentences

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Showy but intimate, talky yet supple, it’s murmuring assurances to rebut the very doubts he’s raising.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 24, 2025

Showy red to burgundy foliage during the growing season shifts to brilliant yellow and orange in fall.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 29, 2023

Showy displays of romance mean little without day-to-day dependability.

From Salon • Jul. 30, 2022

Showy national campaigns like Belva Lockwood’s runs for president in 1884 and 1888 were meant to shake up the status quo—to attract media attention and make an argument for women’s rights.

From Slate • Apr. 14, 2015

Showy, circus-like turns, though, were only a tiny part of what he could do at the piano in his ‘recitals’ - a term he coined for a solo piano concert.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall