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high-flown example sentences
high-flown
1. "The ocean's bounty," she added, mimicking his occasional high-flown mode of expression
2. a very high-flown and flowery, but extremely respectful, love-letter
3. I don't recall the words now, but I remember well that through the high-flown phrases there was apparent a genuine feeling, which cannot be feigned
4. (6) There remains in the Laws the old enmity to the poets, who are ironically saluted in high-flown terms, and, at the same time, are peremptorily ordered out of the city, if they are not willing to submit their poems to the censorship of the magistrates (Rep
5. It sounds high-flown and absurd, but consider the facts! Why should a thief try to break in at a bedroom window, where there could be no hope of any plunder, and why should he come with a long knife in his hand?"
6. But he had selected quotations so adroitly that for people who had not read the book (and obviously scarcely anyone had read it) it seemed absolutely clear that the whole book was nothing but a medley of high-flown phrases, not even—as suggested by marks of interrogation—used appropriately, and that the author of the book was a person absolutely without knowledge of the subject
7. It was a letter to her from a medical student or someone of that sort--a very high-flown and flowery, but extremely respectful, love-letter
8. don't recall the words now, but I remember well that through the high-flown phrases there was apparent a genuine feeling, which cannot be feigned
9. The old lady relieves the high-flown benevolence of her husband with a good deal of spirit
10. She seemed to me in other things, with all her excellent qualities, of a somewhat high-flown and romantic way of thinking…
11. The letter was very indefinite, high-flown, and full of sentimentality
12. It was a letter to her from a medical student or some one of that sort—a very high-flown and flowery, but extremely respectful, love-letter
13. The style is very high-flown, the feelings seem to be most elevated, but you can't make out what is happening, to whom it is happening, and where it is happening