showoff

Example Sentences

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“I appreciate that Glacier Peak requires work for a view and it makes her quite different than her showoff sister, Mount Baker,” said Matthew Riggen, visitor information and field ranger for the Darrington Ranger District.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 31, 2022

“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

FaceTiming with friends and family doesn’t work; she runs around in full showoff mode and can’t really interact via a screen that well.

From Slate • Apr. 26, 2020

Well, fate, which never likes a showoff, for one thing.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 23, 2019

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