(v. i.) To throw or spread out; to flutter; to move ostentatiously; as, a flaunting show.
(v. t.) To display ostentatiously; to make an impudent show of.
(n.) Anything displayed for show.
Example Sentences:
(1) A rowdy fringe took to raiding liquor stores, spraying graffiti and flaunting marijuana.
(2) Since she won the Nobel prize, tree planting has become an essential for all countries wanting to flaunt green credentials.
(3) Vladimir Putin flaunts that disrespect with his actions over Ukraine.
(4) • This article was amended on 29 January 2015 to correct a misuse of flaunt for flout in the sub-heading.
(5) From the age of 38, he led the Liberals for nine years, flaunting his advantage when, out on the election trail in 1974 wearing a trademark trilby, he vaulted a security barrier like a Moulin Rouge can-can dancer.
(6) These days, Banks flaunts his political views with a FTT (Fuck the Tories ) T-shirt.
(7) He flaunted a recent report by the BBC that suggests that more of the Lib Dem manifesto is being delivered in government than the priorities set out by the Conservatives, despite the fact that the Lib Dems have just eight percent of MPs in Westminster.
(8) The state-funded Genocide Museum on the main boulevard of Vilnius does not mention the word "Holocaust"; it is all about Soviet crimes; and even flaunts antisemitic exhibits.
(9) But Grazia drooling over Kardashian's "well-dressed bottom" is akin to the Mail Online claiming that women are "flaunting" their legs , when all they're doing is walking.
(10) The myth of wealth and gratification he flaunts in this portrait was largely fantasy when he started out.
(11) It is felt that the current belief of greater homosexuality in actors, as compared to the general population, is a product of our Puritan heritage, the actor's unconventionality, and of public flaunting of the homoerotic behavior of that portion of actors that are homosexual.
(12) Zhan Jiang, a journalism professor at the Beijing Foreign Studies University and prominent online opinion leader, said officials were now less likely to take obvious bribes and flaunt their power – one sign that the drive should be taken seriously.
(13) From selfies on super-yachts to posing with private jets, the young heirs of the uber-wealthy have attracted worldwide envy and derision by flaunting their lavish lifestyles on social media.
(14) "Flaunting one's curves" means, simply, that you have a female body and to have a female body means, obviously, that you want to be ogled and quite possibly more.
(15) A beekeeper brazenly flaunting his face-covering When Ukip first announced its ban on face-coverings it was asked if it would apply to beekeepers, and there, on page 52 of the manifesto, is a picture of one – just 15 pages after the burqa ban section.
(16) Although City have no issue with the result, the club believe the stadium ban was flaunted.
(17) Growing up gay in the Australian bush: 'We do not flaunt it, it's who we are' Read more I believe marriage equality can be achieved relatively soon, but only with a well-thought out plan, good organising, the participation of grassroots supporters and a lot of heart.
(18) Flaunting a corporate and totalitarian style, they stand before an ugly pseudo-classical painting of a mountain range straddled by the Great Wall, forming their own human wall of dark-suited conformity.
(19) The people it doesn’t belong to and who don’t belong there are those who grabbed it by force of arms, flaunting their contempt for the local citizens.” Le Guin, who lives in northwest Portland, said that the people of Harney County “have carefully hammered out agreements to manage the refuge in the best interest of landowners, scientists, visitors, tourists, livestock and wildlife”, and that “they’re suffering more every day, economically and otherwise, from this invasion by outsiders”.
(20) But to the oracle I must return once more because what the Washington Post once was to Nixon's corruption, Mail Online is to women flaunting their curves: tireless in its determination to expose such things, fearless in the face of mockery of its myopic and, to sceptical outsiders, decidedly deranged obsession.
Swank
Definition:
(imp.) of Swink
Example Sentences:
(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Ramzan Kadyrov is joined by Jean-Claude Van Damme and Hilary Swank at his birthday party in Grozny in 2011.
(2) Comparison of the Bentley PFS-127, Fenwal 4C2417, Johnson & Johnson Intersept, Pall Ultipore, and Swank IL200 filters led to the conclusion that the Fenwal 4C2423 was both a significant improvement over the previous Fenwal design and comparable to the most efficient of these filters for both the removal of microaggregates during massive blood transfusion and for the blood flow rates obtained.
(3) Hilary Swank plays a resilient, lonely singleton who enlists Jones’s crabby claims jumper to help her escort three mentally ill women back to civilisation.
(4) There were 5 control puppies and 5 for which a Swank filter was placed in the arterial perfusion line.
(5) These changes did not occur in patients transfused comparable amounts of blood through Dacron wool (Swank) filters or in patients transfused less than 20% of blood volumes.
(6) Interposition of Dacron wool (Swank) blood transfusion filters prevented these changes.
(7) Weinberg claimed the actor had "no current plans to attend" the party; later the same month, YouTube footage showed Swank eulogising her host.
(8) Obviously it has taken me some time to digest this, and obviously it will take some more time,” Swank said.
(9) "This is a solid neighbourhood, everyone looks out for each other," Ben Swank, Third Man's co-founder, had explained to me on my tour.
(10) Hilary Swank is gentlewoman farmer Mary Bee Cuddy, a transplant from upstate New York who has built a successful holding but lacks a husband; men tell her she’s “plain and bossy”.
(11) These can be prevented by microfiltration--the Swank IL200 transfusion filter made of Dacron wool is perfectly suitable.
(12) So the party was seriously amaze, we had like these interns you could actually SIT on, tray Gatsby & the entire theme was "bags", non-swank my idea, everyone was going OMG it is like something out of Truman Patootie, then there is this shouting, the doormen are like, couple of liggers shall we eject, I'm like *sigh* let them in but make him do up his shirt & do not let her out of your sight?
(13) Apparently, the Swank blood filter protects the lung by removing leukocytes and damaged platelets from the circulation.
(14) The efficacy of the Fenwal filter, the Swank filter, the Biotest filter and the intersept filter was practically the same, but the Intersept filter provided the best output with an equal filtration capacity.
(15) On the basis of this research, we conclude that polyester mesh micropore blood transfusion filters are not as effective as Dacron wool (Swank) transfusion filters in removal of micro-aggregates from stored human blood.
(16) It has also been demonstrated that rises in Swank screen filtration pressure in an in vitro test circuit are due to the presence of platelet aggregates.
(17) At one point in the film Swank and Jones' characters are confronted by a Pawnee raiding party and have a horse stolen, but Jones rejected any suggestion that he had "stereotyped" Native Americans in his film.
(18) These effects are due to microemboli that pass the filters and are prevented by use of Dacron wool (Swank) micropore transfusion filters.
(19) Microaggregates, detected by the Swank screen filtration pressure technique, were found in blood leaving the columns during three of the four perfusions with each column.
(20) No rises in Swank screen filtration pressure, which detects the presence of cellular aggregates in blood, were observed.