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
Back then, skeptics tried to describe him in ways that limited his accomplishments — dismissing him as selfish or a showboat.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 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
He looked pretty good until he saw me watching him, then he tried to showboat.
From "Slam!" by Walter Dean Myers
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
