How to Use flamboyant in a Sentence

flamboyant

adjective
  • The queen did not want to be flamboyant.
    — Stephanie Nolasco , Ashley Papa, FOXNews.com, 23 June 2026
  • Pierre was short, with a white beard and flamboyant wild hair.
    — Literary Hub, 7 Nov. 2025
  • The welcome is relaxed and warm while the flamboyant decor fights to charm you.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2026
  • Carey is the band’s most joyful performer and its most flamboyant.
    — Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2024
  • While these cats are a bit smaller than their African cousins, their flamboyant fur makes up for it.
    — Marion Miller, Travel + Leisure, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Monte was known for being a little flamboyant and trash talking with the best.
    — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2026
  • A lot of gay men — even out gay men — go into certain spaces and pull back on the flamboyant.
    — Tyler Coates, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Like any royal worth her salt, Tindall knows her way around a flamboyant hat.
    — Hannah Malach, InStyle, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Edgar Guerrero was one of the many with the flamboyant headgear.
    — Julianna Mejia, Kansas City Star, 3 July 2026
  • Jones dresses in stylish and flamboyant suits on game day and has a goofy laugh both in locker room and press settings.
    — Jerry McDonald, Mercury News, 3 Dec. 2025
  • The three-minute vlog saw her shopping for food while wearing a flamboyant black-and-white feather top.
    — Zoey Lyttle, PEOPLE, 29 Jan. 2026
  • The new Alfa Romeo just isn’t flamboyant enough.
    — Mark Phelan, Freep.com, 25 Sep. 2025
  • The new Alfa Romeo just isn’t flamboyant enough.
    — Mark Phelan, USA Today, 27 Sep. 2025
  • The rain was not flamboyant, merely constant.
    — Literary Hub, 18 Nov. 2025
  • And here was this flamboyant gay man who was completely loved and admired and worshiped.
    — Rebecca Keegan, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Sep. 2023
  • For outsiders looking in, drag culture looks fun and flamboyant.
    — Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2022
  • Gray will play the flamboyant and outspoken Kofi.
    — Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 25 Nov. 2025
  • Count Volpe's wool shirt is more flamboyant as a result, with an ornate green vest, striped trousers, and a fur coat.
    — Brielle Diskin, The Week, 9 Dec. 2022
  • And Babou’s nightclub is a flamboyant spot — maybe a wealthy friend’s secret hideaway.
    — Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 15 June 2023
  • Very fitting for the flamboyant crooner!
    — Katherine J Igoe, InStyle, 14 Mar. 2026
  • With no room for their more flamboyant dance moves, the fish resorted to a lot of head bobbing and scanning with their schnauzenorgan.
    — Elizabeth Anne Brown, Scientific American, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Pepitone, the flamboyant first baseman of the Yankees, died at the age of 82.
    — Dan Shaughnessy, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Gressett’s initial audition with the judges was flamboyant and over the top, causing all three to raise their eyebrows.
    — Mary Colurso | [email protected], al, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Sabering is the art of using a saber, or some other nifty tool, to open a bottle of sparkling wine in the most flamboyant way possible.
    — oregonlive, 27 Jan. 2023
  • Where their Florida style is bold and flamboyant, the ranch is subtle and defined by a rich, earthy palette.
    — Elizabeth Kiefer, Architectural Digest, 17 June 2026
  • Their transformations from brown to green, dull to flamboyant, follow the rhythms of rain and fire, not the predictable march of the seasons.
    — Julia Rosen, The Atlantic, 25 July 2022
  • His latest work, the raunchy and flamboyant dramedy Kaymak, seems destined for the same fate.
    — Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Oct. 2022
  • This 19-year-old has style in her genes and knew how to show it off with a flamboyant red dress that screamed empowerment in a visual way.
    — Teresa Romero Martínez, Glamour, 7 Jan. 2024
  • Would the perennial losers have been attractive to the Big 12 if not for their flamboyant coach?
    — Joe Freeman, oregonlive, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Returns sidelines Wayne more, cutting his screen time in favor of the flamboyant villains.
    — Vulture, 25 Aug. 2023

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