extravagance
Example Sentences
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In the background to all of that extravagance was a pending Premier League judgment against Man City on 115 charges of breaching financial regulations over the course of a decade.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
As a result, Prof Voon says, friends or family can regard the change in behaviour as generosity or extravagance - rather than anything pathological - and so it continues.
From BBC • May 1, 2026
“Drag is often obviously about a certain kind of extravagance and fabulousness and Maddie is very humble,” he says.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026
"We don't need all that extravagance to find our soulmate. The channel isn't as essential as it used to be," agreed Roslin Dantin, a 30-year-old cattle farmer.
From Barron's • Feb. 12, 2026
My daily budget was a quickly spent twelve dollars, and every extravagance called for a corresponding sacrifice.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
Vocabulary lists containing extravagance
The Crucible
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