showboat

Example Sentences

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The defending champion was so comfortable he began to showboat when Nery missed, playing to the crowd as he mixed in body and head shots.

From BBC • May 6, 2024

“Some people worried was Martin O’Malley going to be a showboat — but guess what? He turned out to be a tugboat,” Ms. Mikulski said.

From Washington Times • Nov. 2, 2023

The list of wealthy people willing to sign up for a chance to buy a showboat aircraft that would smoke all their rivals’ clunkers grew.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 22, 2022

It falls to Thermal Herman 6⅞ths, the showboat of Katz’s inventory, to fashion himself into a fedora, hitch a ride on a moose’s antlers that double as a hatrack and save her.

From New York Times • May 20, 2022

He looked pretty good until he saw me watching him, then he tried to showboat.

From "Slam!" by Walter Dean Myers