"manner" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Gould incurred some controversy when he had Tracy, on a police officer's salary, live in an unaccountably ostentatious manner in a large home complete with a personal Cadillac.
- Priests are not to go about in ostentatious manner, nor are they to participate in the business of government.
- After B'Elanna shut it off again, she sauntered to the chair between the two Terrans and sat down in it in as ostentatious a manner as possible.
- He was known for his ostentatious manner of living, and served personally in war when needed.
- But Montanus was also attacked for handling large sums of money, for moving about in an ostentatious manner and for paying stipends to his chief followers.
- He pioneered a natural, fluid style of acting, as opposed to the grand, ostentatious manner then popular.
- Although he must have made millions on "American Beauty," Mendes does not live in an ostentatious manner: no private planes, no Bel-Air mansion.
- Magruder, an amateur actor before the war, exacerbated McClellan's confusion by moving infantry and artillery in a noisy, ostentatious manner to make the defenders seem a much larger forces than their actual numbers.
- At school I would follow certain rules in an ostentatious manner (while breaking others in secret) and become severe, even morally censorious, towards those who lapsed from my hypocritically high standards.
- Mary Todd Lincoln "grieved till she died - in a more ostentatious manner - who, you might say, tried to move on and couldn't" (20).
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