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show

[shoh] / ʃoʊ /










Usage

What are other ways to say show? The noun show often indicates an external appearance that may or may not accord with actual facts: a show of modesty. Display applies to an intentionally conspicuous show: a great display of wealth. Ostentation is vain, ambitious, pretentious, or offensive display: tasteless and vulgar ostentation. Pomp suggests such a show of dignity and authority as characterizes a ceremony of state: The coronation was carried out with pomp and splendor.

Example Sentences

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But when it is presented as The Opera then, please, let's recognize that it is -- wait for it -- a SHOW.

From New York Times • Dec. 28, 2017

AIR SHOW: Virginia’s Kurt Benkert had a very efficient opener, completing 27 of 39 throws for 262 yards, three touchdowns and no interceptions.

From Washington Times • Sep. 8, 2017

This possibly means that Rachel is being groomed to be the next star of The Bachelorette and if that happens—ABOUT TIME, SHOW.

From Time • Jan. 2, 2017

Yet so many watchers held out hope that “Mad Men” would somehow shake itself out of its trance and deliver something, anything that screamed TV SHOW.

From Washington Post • May 18, 2015

"SHOW this gentleman to the Bureau of Soils," said the Secretary to the boy who came as he pushed a button.

From The Story of the Soil; from the Basis of Absolute Science and Real Life, by Hopkins, Cyril G. (Cyril George)




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