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Example sentences for "prodigality"

Lexicographically close words:
prodding; prodesse; prodest; prodigal; prodigalities; prodigall; prodigally; prodigals; prodigies; prodigious
  1. If there is, it was said, a House in England which has been gorged with undeserved riches by the prodigality of weak sovereigns, it is the House of Bath.

  2. From this point the light flashes out over the kneeling magi, the gorgeously robed attendants, the prodigality of velvet and jewels and gold, to fade into the lovely clear-obscure of a starry night peopled with dim camels and cattle.

  3. It is perhaps due to the prodigality with which titles have been scattered in late years that the older titles are more regarded than the new, although of inferior grade.

  4. In Portugal, however, you can have all the delightful sensations of prodigality at a contemptible cost.

  5. The people call me a miser, because Maria Theresa's prodigality of expenditure forces upon me measures of retrenchment, and necessitates unusual expedients for the raising of funds.

  6. But prodigality was the bane of the Yonges, and not much more than one hundred years later it passed away from Sir Walter's ruined grandson, and was bought by Sir John Kennaway.

  7. After all its prodigality it shall sicken and return.

  8. The fire of his genius, his prodigality of ideas, gave rise to flashes of speech; but he never interrupted an interesting conversation; and he was attentive without affectation and without constraint.

  9. To prevent this deplorable prodigality of themselves, women should spare no pains to comprehend thoroughly their dignity, of which they can never have too high an appreciation or too great an esteem.

  10. This faculty is His sanctuary, in which He delights to dwell, and operate the prodigies of His grace and love, which He communicates with unbounded prodigality to His elect.

  11. He was not allowed to continue the prodigality of Calonne; and it was too late to return to the retrenchments of Necker.

  12. This is, indeed, the hope of those who wish to see liberty and the constitution perish, and to witness the return of the distinction of orders, of prodigality in the public expenditure, and of the abuses that spring from despotism.

  13. He passed his days in an alternation of prodigality and poverty, spending fifty francs on his dinner one day and feeding on a crust and a slab of chocolate the next.

  14. Of all his vices, prodigality was the most remarkable, and that which in some measure gave rise to the rest.

  15. During Junot's diplomatic mission to Lisbon, his wife displayed her prodigality so that on his return to Paris in 1806 he was burdened with debts, which his own intrigues did not lessen.

  16. His extravagance and prodigality shocked the government, and some rumours of an intrigue with a lady of the imperial family--it is said Pauline Bonaparte--made it desirable again to send him away.

  17. Goldoni's grandfather was a native of Modena, who had settled in Venice, and there lived with the prodigality of a rich and ostentatious 'bourgeois.

  18. All his work shows the same characters of direct individual observation and interpretation of the facts before him, repeated examination of the same point, and almost a prodigality of labour in recording his observations in drawings.

  19. Well meaning, but weak and incapable, he left everything to the Duke of Lerma, under whose guidance a reckless course of prodigality was followed as though the only trouble was to get rid of surplus revenues.

  20. The convention, sir, has been so lately discussed, is so particularly remembered, and so universally condemned, that it would be an unjustifiable prodigality of time to expatiate upon it.

  21. In its prodigality and ascending gammes there was place for nothing save the Ideal.

  22. This thoughtless prodigality of Charles is emphasized by the fact that he was impoverished in the midst of his profuseness.

  23. Juan de Santoyo, former judge of confiscations of Jaen, and he continued making gifts with reckless prodigality as though the royal treasury were overflowing and the Inquisition were richly endowed.

  24. The first ceased with the peace, but the debt remained; and the prodigality of James was fast raising the charges of the Crown in time of peace to as high a level as they had reached under his predecessor in time of war.

  25. The king's prodigality undid his minister's work; and in 1610 Cecil was forced to announce to his master that the annual revenue of the Crown must be supplemented by fresh grants from Parliament.


  26. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prodigality" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abundance; affluence; amplification; amplitude; avalanche; backsliding; ballyhoo; bonanza; burlesque; caricature; carnality; delinquency; deluge; dilation; dissipation; drunkenness; enhancement; enlargement; evil; excess; exorbitance; expansion; extravagance; extreme; exuberance; fertility; flood; flow; fluency; fullness; generosity; gluttony; grandiloquence; gush; gushing; heightening; huckstering; hyperbole; immorality; impurity; incontinence; indulgence; inflation; intemperance; inundation; landslide; lavishness; liberality; lot; magnification; maximum; much; myriad; opulence; outpouring; overabundance; overdose; overemphasis; overflow; overpopulation; oversupply; plenitude; plenty; plethora; prevalence; prodigality; productiveness; productivity; profligacy; profusion; quantity; recidivism; redundancy; reiteration; repletion; riot; scads; sensationalism; shower; spate; squander; stream; stretching; substantiality; superabundance; superfluity; superlative; tautology; tirade; travesty; unchastity; ungodliness; unrestraint; waste; wealth; wrongdoing