Extravagance
in example sentence
In Tunisia, the notorious
extravagance
of Ben Ali’s extended family included a caged tiger and the use of a private jet to fly in ice cream from St. Tropez.
More example sentences with word extravagance
I'm sitting there, I got new earbuds, old Walkman, I realize this is just the kind of
extravagance
I used to take for granted even when I was extravagant.
But I came from a modest immigrant family where my idea of luxury was having a pork tongue and jelly sandwich in my school lunchbox, so the thought of spending my whole life sitting around in armchairs just thinking ... Well, that struck me as the height of
extravagance
and frivolity.
It was Irving Thalberg, a former secretary with intuitive genius, who achieved rational
extravagance.
Her husband (Richard Ney) has lost all his money through a combination of his foolhardiness and her extravagance, and they are reduced to living in a tiny room, with little or no prospects.
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