showoff

Example Sentences

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Probably the best-known catkin showoff — beloved by bees, gardeners and flower arrangers — is the Japanese pink pussy willow Mt.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 6, 2024

Now, with the recent flood of highly classified leaked documents, mainly on the Ukraine war, Stevenson is seeing the rise of a fourth type: “the showoff who wants to demonstrate his inside knowledge.”

From Slate • Apr. 13, 2023

Although Belle disdains provincial life — as Jones expertly signals with glance and tone — she’s courted by the egotistical local Gaston, who’s such a showoff that he does calisthenics during conversations.

From Washington Post • Nov. 14, 2021

“He thought he was doing his job. He wasn’t a showoff in that respect and wasn’t searching for hero worship.”

From Washington Times • Feb. 7, 2021

Very probably, it was not part of the sofa vaudeville of a showoff but, rather, the private, exposed achievement of a young man who, at one time or another, might have tried shaving himself left-handed.

From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger