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Six example sentences with ostentatious, each labelled with its topic.
The bank's ostentatious marble lobby, four stories tall for one teller window, was meant to signal permanence.
Architecture
His ostentatious entrance, with two wolfhounds and a white suit, tells you everything about the character in ten seconds.
Movies
The firm banned ostentatious client dinners after a photograph of a gold-leaf dessert circulated during layoff week.
Finance
His ostentatious celebration after a routine layup drew a technical foul and a lecture from the coach.
Basketball
The dessert was ostentatious, gold leaf and dry ice on a plain sponge, and it tasted of very little.
Cooking
The guitarist's ostentatious solo ran five minutes, and the song underneath it disappeared entirely.
Music
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