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How to use pompously in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word pompously? Here are some examples.

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As more than sixty of the elegant vehicles pompously purred their way through the city.
Carlton is bending facts here in an area he often pompously claims first-hand knowledge.
In 1996, Trudeau picked up his pen to denounce Premier Lucien Bouchard in a letter that he pompously entitled I accuse.
Henry, fighting the urge to just disappear and let the battle rage on, shifted somewhat pompously and very self-confidently into a loud authoritative voice.
The recovery plan, pompously termed European', is, in fact, the sum of the finances decided on by the Member States.
The specialists declare to us, pompously, that Internet is as well fast as the slowest of its sections!
Otherwise, the danger is high to see any portfolio of hedge funds pompously calling itself an index and being distributed to the general public, i.e. circumventing of the Directive.
Moreover, programmes launched pompously were delayed in their realisation, which discredited the State's measures in the eyes of concerned parties.
You announce pompously that a European Constitution is being launched.
For an industry that is making a profit out of information technologies, as they are pompously known, the Brussels proposal for a directive on copyright is a fair compromise.
The word is often used to refer to texts that are overburdened with instructive or factual matter to the exclusion of graceful and pleasing detail so that they are pompously dull and erudite.
Dialogue, dialogue and dialogue at first was its constant refrain pompously and sanctimoniously for months.
I have met some of the most boring people in the Western world who pompously assume they must be protected from the probing interests of the snoopers.
Would it not be sufficient to apply what is today pompously referred to as the precautionary principle, namely basic caution, instead of legislating left, right and centre?
Examples from Classical Literature
The little professor of comparative literature stepped forward and stood pompously before Magee.
Boche, moreover, pompously agreed to the arrangement in the landlord's name.
He was too pompously and innocently aware of his own existence to observe that of others.
The rest of the reviews, as far as I could see, pitied and berated us pompously.
Those who'd learned first pompously passed on what they knew.
And the soldier came to stiff attention as the Sheriff and his body-guard stalked pompously up to inspect the gallows.
They shot down the slit, plebeians all, but it followed pompously like royalty.
As I say, sir,' pompously went on the Mayor, 'the arm of the law is a strong arm, and a long arm.
Mr. klug had just a shade pompously reiterated before Wallingford came.
Brocklehurst has weakly and pompously repeated at second-hand from Mrs.
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