extravagance
Example Sentences
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“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
When protests broke out to oust the Shah, she showed up for her community, a tightknit cluster of graduate students who were frustrated by his extravagance and tyranny.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026
AFP reporters spent a night out on the town on a recent December evening to document a city known for its excess exploding into full-blown extravagance.
From Barron's • Dec. 22, 2025
Swift says the goal of the Eras tour was to "over-serve" in terms of the number of songs performed, the extravagance of the costuming, and the details of each set design.
From BBC • Dec. 12, 2025
They understood not only evil, it seemed, but the extravagance of tricks with which evil presents itself as good.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
Vocabulary lists containing extravagance
The Crucible
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