extravagance|extravagances in English

noun

[ex·trav·a·gance || ɪk'strævəgəns]

profligacy, lavishness, excess, immoderatio

Use "extravagance|extravagances" in a sentence

1. The expected extravagance.

2. Extravagance ends in want.

3. Thought they were an extravagance.

4. Her only extravagance was horses.

5. Jezrael could hardly believe such extravagance.

6. And we must pay for this extravagance!

7. His extravagance is eating up our profits.

8. His only extravagance was fine wine.

9. We must combat extravagance and waste.

10. Going to the theatre is our only extravagance.

11. This tournament is an extravagance we cannot afford.

12. The whole charade is compounded by financial extravagance.

13. I think she was shocked by my extravagance.

14. Morsels of luscious chocolate that seem shaped by a jeweller's hand are filled with sumptuous extravagances.

15. Neither was his whole time devoted to riotous extravagances of youth. He enjoyed many lucid intervals.

16. He's always railing against his wife about her extravagance.

17. Nero's rule is usually associated with tyranny and extravagance.

18. His extravagance explains why he is always in debt.

19. Furthermore, she never used her position to indulge in extravagances or covetously harm the emperor's concubines.

20. 25 We abate something of the wanton extravagance of our pretensions.

21. Young ladies should learn to spend money carefully and avoid extravagance.

22. Economy the poor man’s mints; extravagance the rich man’s pitfall. 

23. Any cause of impairment, destruction, ruin, or frustration: Extravagance was the Blight …

24. 9 Dusseldorf remains the capital of mindless extravagance; ostentation rules the KO.

25. 26 Hands were shaken, waved, and he advanced to the rostrum, as the final extravagances burst around him.