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Example sentences for "extravagantly"

Lexicographically close words:
extravagance; extravagances; extravagancies; extravagancy; extravagant; extravaganza; extravasated; extravasation; extravasations; extream
  1. It is as extravagantly delighted by exquisite scents as it is extravagantly horrified by nasty ones.

  2. He was extravagantly fond of the pleasures of the table, and a constant participant in convivial occasions.

  3. Many famous authors and public men have been extravagantly fond of the rod and line, disciples of that patient and poetical angler, Izaak Walton.

  4. Barrow, one of the greatest of English theologians and mathematicians, is said to have died of a surfeit of pears,--a fruit of which he was extravagantly fond.

  5. He was extravagantly fond indeed of this last colour; which he often misapplied in regard to the hands and the extremities of the fingers.

  6. That I have become a conceited ass, and fancy that because I used to be extravagantly fond of modeling all manner of absurdities in clay, and cutting caricatures of my friends in meerschaum--this I hope you will not believe.

  7. He wanted extravagantly to be near Rosemary, to be where he could see her clearly.

  8. A woman in an extravagantly low-cut gown took their place, singing.

  9. Lavinia studied him with a remote young brutality, from his fluffy disarranged hair, adhering to his wet brow, to his extravagantly pointed shoes.

  10. The forty or more varieties of crotons include the curious corkscrew of the West Indies, and range extravagantly in colors and markings.

  11. Prices on the boats are always high, and the native voluptuary pays extravagantly and the foreigner ruinously whenever he devotes an evening to the floral fleet.

  12. This circumstance is justly styled by Pope "most extravagantly hyperbolical," but a translator should not have omitted it.

  13. Cicely was talking extravagantly all the time.

  14. This lady would arrive from unknown regions in the morning, wearing her extravagantly quaint hats, and would return at night to that mysterious existence of hers, about which no one ever troubled.

  15. Then there were extravagantly magnificent gowns and large sums disappeared, squandered or perhaps given away, without her ever dreaming of accounting for them.

  16. And thus Nana had come into artistic surroundings of the choicest kind and of the most extravagantly various dates.

  17. It is extravagantly an hour of classes and masses; and the most dull does not fail to make out in the Senate unseating of the rusty but aristocratic Schuyler a triumphant clutch at power by the masses.

  18. To that she owed the extravagantly pretty clothes he was always urging her to buy--the house he kept her in--the servants he paid to wait on her.

  19. An Opera may be allowed to be extravagantly lavish in its Decorations, as its only Design is to gratify the Senses, and keep up an indolent Attention in the Audience.

  20. The Prude, says he, as she acts always in Contradiction, so she is gravely sullen at a Comedy, and extravagantly gay at a Tragedy.

  21. Magdalens and Maries, extravagantly realistic in martyrdoms and torments, extravagantly harsh in dogmatic mysteries, extravagantly soft in sentimental tenderness and tearful piety.

  22. When the time came for the baby to be baptized, they wrote a joint letter, couched in extravagantly affectionate terms, asking me to be his godmother.

  23. It was his little surprise for me--mushrooms, to which I am extravagantly partial--the first of the season.

  24. A little while afterwards, he burst out into another fit of laughter on finding a crooked hazel stick, which he also put in his pocket: and a third time, he again laughed extravagantly because he found a nut.

  25. Tom remained three days with the old couple, and feasted upon a hazel-nut so extravagantly that he grew ill.

  26. Thus qualified, the prescribed subordination of one's own to the general good is no such extravagantly self-denying ordinance.

  27. These were almost always marked either by a roll-moulding or by a succession of nook-shafts, sometimes extravagantly chevroned or otherwise ornamented.

  28. The scenery of Lake Como has been so often extravagantly praised that I was quite prepared to be disappointed; but for the whole distance from Colico to Lecco it is certainly on the whole more striking than any lake scenery I have seen.

  29. Mother has such extravagantly high ideas about what people ought to do.

  30. This slender volume was extravagantly praised by the late Charles J.

  31. But remember, my dear sister, and I wish all my fair countrywomen would recollect, that the only excuse a young lady can have for going extravagantly into a fashion is because it makes her look extravagantly handsome.

  32. He was coming in some hours earlier than usual from his rounds when she delivered herself into his hands by appearing at the foot of the staircase with her hair extravagantly dressed, and wearing what he took, rightly, to be a new blue gown.

  33. Richard Barnfield in his like-named poem of Cynthia, 1595, and Fulke Greville in sonnets addressed to Cynthia, also extravagantly described the Queen's beauty and graces.

  34. These people were extravagantly fond of nails above every other thing.

  35. They were extravagantly fond of cocoa-nut shells, more so than of any thing we could give them.


  36. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "extravagantly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    agonizingly; aplenty; awfully; bitterly; blatantly; cruelly; deadly; deathly; distressingly; dreadfully; excessively; excruciatingly; extravagantly; fast; flagrantly; frightfully; fully; generously; grandly; grievously; grossly; horribly; impressively; improperly; inexcusably; inordinately; intolerably; lavishly; liberally; magnificently; miserably; nobly; openly; outrageously; painfully; profusely; proudly; sadly; sorely; splendidly; superbly; terribly; unduly