How to Use pomp in a Sentence

pomp

noun

• The catch, of course, is that the pomp and circumstance is way, way late.
  — Mike Finger, San Antonio Express-News, 28 Feb. 2022
• For starters, there isn’t a hint of stuffiness or pomp.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Dec. 2023
• The pomp was toned down for the queen's second visit this year.
  — Arkansas Online, 19 Dec. 2019
• There was a lot of -- a fair amount of pomp and circumstance.
  — Dateline Nbc, NBC News, 24 Aug. 2022
• The city of puritan cant, left-wing pomp, and the meanest ...
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 4 Jan. 2024
• Much of the normal pomp that surrounds the speech was absent.
  — Sarah D. Wire, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2021
• The pomp and circumstance paid for by the British people is in no way present.
  — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2023
• The event’s pomp, to say nothing of the size of the gift, was a world removed from his lowest days fresh out of prison.
  — Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2022
• There would be no pomp or glitz for the STC’s reopening.
  — John Brant, Popular Mechanics, 25 Oct. 2019
• Push the pomp aside, and there wasn’t much substance to Colorado’s season.
  — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 4 Jan. 2024
• There was plenty of pomp as the teams entered to walk-out music and high-fives.
  — Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Apr. 2023
• There are no specifics, no renderings, and none of the pomp and circumstance of the last go-around.
  — Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Oct. 2021
• Every so often the seas rise up and blow away all the pomp and pretension.
  — Charles Graeber, Travel + Leisure, 6 Mar. 2021
• Strip away the pomp and polish of a bigger-budget project, and that’s all that matters.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 17 Aug. 2023
• All of the agreements could have been made without granting Putin a one-on-one meeting with all the pomp of the summit.
  — The Editors, National Review, 17 June 2021
• For all the pomp, the actual revelations in the first salvo of the Twitter Files were a bit thin.
  — Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2022
• And the royal pomp and flourishes are the extra cherry on top.
  — Julie Washington, cleveland.com, 17 Sep. 2019
• Not for the sake of the members, who would’ve doubtless seen their hunting curtailed by all the pomp and preparation, but for the sake of the Swedish monarch.
  — The Editors, Field & Stream, 10 Oct. 2020
• The start of the working week is another day steeped in the historic pageantry and pomp that follows the death of a British sovereign.
  — Mike Corder, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Sep. 2022
• The pomp of Black Friday, along with the deluge of online deals and discounts, may derail these plans.
  — Imani Moise, WSJ, 24 Nov. 2022
• Flight of the Rogue Officers There was little pomp to their departure from the base.
  — Sarah A. Topol, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2024
• Have a good look at the high pomp of tonight’s State of the Union address and ask yourself if this is a country immune to caesarism.
  — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 4 Feb. 2020
• The Super Bowl will have a kickoff time of 6:30 p.m. ET, although with the pomp and pageantry of the event, that has a margin of error of a few minutes.
  — Gabe Zaldivar, USA TODAY, 11 Feb. 2024
• As a piece of live television, the event gave off a spirit of conservative pomp that the first one had lacked.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2023
• Keeping the levels up The second day of practices didn’t have any drop off from opening day’s pomp.
  — Jenna Ortiz, The Arizona Republic, 16 Mar. 2023
• As part of that, most of the pomp and pageantry that is a hallmark of the Iditarod each March was canceled or moved online.
  — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Mar. 2021
• These well-trodden arguments are where Gray is in his pomp.
  — Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2020
• But otherwise, there are few signs that the British royals are toning down the pomp for the May 6 ceremonies.
  — Marisa Bellack, Washington Post, 10 Apr. 2023
• How many of us could realize that all the pomp, the noise and the deification was merely a small and fleeting slice of life?
  — Conor Orr, SI.com, 24 Aug. 2019
• What’s more unusual is for cooking of this rarefied sort to be happening in a thimble-sized, tin-ceilinged storefront on a residential street, with minimal pomp.
  — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 21 July 2024

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024