vanity
Example Sentences
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“I work in fashion, where vanity is very high,” said Auth, 33, a senior account manager for Wolford, a luxury lingerie and hosiery brand.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026
"Unfortunately, what we've seen in the recent past is a growing trend of people using it for vanity reasons," he says.
From BBC • Mar. 7, 2026
Some critics dismissed the film as little more than a vanity project for the first lady, and an effort by Jeff Bezos’s Amazon.com Inc.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 1, 2026
Esperanza makes an altar on the vanity and prepares the space for chanting, a prayer meeting but more unapologetic, ritualistic and communal.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 28, 2026
I prayed that we wouldn’t meet anyone I knew and then felt guilty for drawing God’s attention away from serious matters to what was, after all, only an item of vanity.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
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