display
Usage
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Display applies to intentionally conspicuous show: a great display of wealth. Show often indicates an external appearance that may or may not accord with actual facts: a show of modesty. Ostentation is vain, ambitious, pretentious, or offensive display: tasteless and vulgar ostentation. Pomp suggests such a show of dignity and authority as characterizes a ceremony of state: The coronation was carried out with pomp and splendor.Example Sentences
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Nearly half a million people were expected to pass through the sprawling Javits Convention Center, from industry bigwigs to families just coming to ogle hundreds of new vehicles on display.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026
Another Ford penalty stretched the advantage to 19 points but half-time substitute Chandler Cunningham-South made a big impact for Quins in an improved second-half display and he got them on the scoreboard after 48 minutes.
From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026
Ye ended the show with “All of the Lights,” which got a huge pryo display, and “Runaway,” his epic 2010 warning to anyone foolish enough to consider falling in love with him.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2026
That, more than anything, was what was on dismal display Wednesday night.
From Slate • Apr. 2, 2026
“I heard her tell the principal. She said if it just wasn’t on Eugene’s head she would display it as an example of living sculpture.”
From "The Best School Year Ever" by Barbara Robinson
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
