How to Use pompous in a Sentence

pompous

adjective

• She found it difficult to talk about her achievements without sounding pompous.
• The book is gassy and pompous and just fraudulent and dumb as hell.
  — Geek's Guide To The Galaxy, WIRED, 15 July 2022
• The dwarves anchor it and temper some of the show’s more pompous instincts.
  — Sydney Odman, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Aug. 2022
• The hero, a pompous TV weatherman, is compelled to live the same day over and over.
  — Anne Fadiman, Wired, 17 June 2020
• That’s why the big live oak at the cemetery is such a refuge, with nothing but a few pompous stones to block the breeze.
  — Bill Finch, al, 20 July 2023
• Genet’s face stared out from the cover, once old and pompous, now young and troubled.
  — Saïd Sayrafiezadeh, The New Yorker, 2 May 2022
• To some, Kim’s tone had come off as pompous and dismissive.
  — Jasmine Sanders, The Cut, 29 May 2018
• Some people could view it, for lack of a better word, douchey or pompous.
  — Emma Fraser and Sophie Brookover, Town & Country, 21 Dec. 2022
• Here's how to talk about wine without sounding like a pompous jerk.
  — Sam Dangremond, Town & Country, 7 Dec. 2016
• A lot of teasing is aimed at pompous food snobs these days, but not nearly enough.
  — Wsj Arts, WSJ, 19 Jan. 2023
• But what makes Babbitt a Babbitt is his pompous hypocrisy.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2023
• Leary, a rich businessman, tagged along, and, as was his wont, mocked the pompous bishops who swanned around the place like kings.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2021
• King Lear is the basic structure, if that doesn’t sound too pompous, but with magic wands.
  — Laura Hudson, The Verge, 30 May 2018
• And will Ingrid forgive him for being such a pompous jerk?
  — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 19 Sep. 2024
• To act as if this is a shocking revelation is, to put it mildly, the height of pompous rhetoric.
  — WSJ, 17 Apr. 2018
• One boy, a pompous rich kid planning to spend his holidays in St. Kitts, manages to score a B+.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 31 Aug. 2023
• The Big Ten is just a pompous fraud, and the league somehow managed to get hustled by a gangster while still looking like the bad guy.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 17 Sep. 2020
• Hemsworth begins the film as an overbearing, pompous Thor.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 7 July 2022
• That’s the reason McKay goes for a pompous, all-star spectacle.
  — Armond White, National Review, 12 Jan. 2022
• Jordan will clearly take a Chad-like role as pompous villain.
  — Rebecca Farley, refinery29.com, 29 May 2018
• The hawker is always full of pompous boasts — lies — and the freak show behind him is sad and disappointing.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 28 Jan. 2018
• Unbeknownst to her, pompous gods of island make bet over which is stronger, love or death - stakes being girl's life.
  — Rasputin Todd, Cincinnati.com, 18 June 2018
• Plemons is a hoot as a pompous villain who isn’t averse to breaking into song with his crew of henchmen.
  — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 July 2021
• That pompous putz at a party reminds us how great our true friends really are.
  — Andy Kessler, WSJ, 19 Dec. 2021
• No know-it-all talking heads or pompous newspaper guys.
  — Paul Jenkins, Alaska Dispatch News, 5 Aug. 2017
• For example, a pompous man in a suit slipping on a banana peel and falling into a pool.
  — Carina Woudenberg, Discover Magazine, 11 July 2021
• And if your boyfriend isn’t too pompous and self-absorbed to find ways to communicate with your parents, then things will turn out OK.
  — Carolyn Hax, Detroit Free Press, 23 Oct. 2019
• Vlad Ivanov, who played the pompous provincial police captain in that film, returns in this one playing the same guy, Cristi Anghelache.
  — New York Times, 26 Feb. 2020
• The picture of chilling villainy, Reehl is pompous and power-hungry.
  — Amanda Rooker, Orange County Register, 3 May 2017
• The former excels at playing the earthy, sly, seductive trickster, the latter, the pompous, self-important rich boy.
  — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2024

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024