How To Use Flashy In A Sentence

In a flurry of bright patterns, flashy materials, and skimpy outfits, several girls flurried into the room, all clicking away on high heels and giggling shrilly.
Although supermarkets are flashy and space-age, a future generation will eventually tire of traipsing round the endless aisles.
Nowadays we live in a culture that puts enormous stock in the achievement of flashy early success.
His taste for luxury is exemplified not least in his collection of flashy cars. Times, Sunday Times
But his flashy lifestyle and taste for violence have made him the most feared -- and the most celebrated.

The rhinestone which is placed in the middle of the front side is the flashy highlight. CD Freaks News
Beautifully packaged and visually dazzling, but the same old wine in a flashy new bottle. Times, Sunday Times
Unflashy and hard-working, he does a lot of the unseen, unrewarded work that wins games.
And, of course, it worships itself, with flashy correspondence dinners, magazine parties, self-satisfying award ceremonies, and giddy self-promotion. LOSING OUR RELIGION
Too often, the most famous members of the profession become preoccupied by their own personalities, generating flashy images and huckstering iconic trademarks.
But to get back to the criticism: Games are flashy, degraded, violent little entertainments for adolescent boys.
Each night she would sweep up to the club in her flashy car and take him home with her. EMOTIONAL ROLLERCOASTER: A Journey Through the Science of Feelings
Streetball often features spectacular dunks and alley - oops, flashy dribbling and trash talking.
He wore pale flannels, a blue T-shirt with a button-up neck (quite similar to the one I was wearing) and a pair of flashy sunglasses.
She's not interested in anything flashy. The Sun
They could be edited together into one, better movie, where we see more of people in flashy leather duds and sunglasses instead of stained waffle undershirts.
‘But there's too much splashy, flashy fluff out there,’ he added.
Yet her image was far removed from the flashy glamour of regulation pop stardom. Times, Sunday Times
Like its grifter characters, it's only as flashy as it needs to be and knows the value of being inconspicuous.
She threw in a lot of flashy footwork to impress the judges.
The programme was relentlessly unflashy, balm in a media world that gets louder and more vulgar by the day.
He sets up multi-frame shots, emulating the look of a comic book, with a plethora of flashy screen wipes and dissolves.
My client wants a very edgy and flashy style, but her content is dry and the writing is not of the same style as she wants the design.
The sound and video quality are reminiscent of a solid public television offering, which is to say stolid and unflashy but executed with quality.
Abbey Road The London Souls' self-titled debut album builds on roaring chords and flashy solos on guitar, insistent drumming and straight-ahead vocals. New Power Trio Muscles Through
So I figged up, and when I regarded myself in Skene's cracked mirror - blue tunic and breeches, gold belt and epaulettes, white gauntlets and helmet, well-bristled whiskers, and Flashy's stalwart fourteen stone inside it all, it wasn't half bad. Fiancée
The club's success has prompted many football fans to search their atlases for this cobblestoned city in northern Portugal, and to realize that in the flashy, money-soaked world of modern football, there's still room for a team built on old-style discipline, a strong work-rate and stout defense. How Braga Climbed a Mountain
*lites go down, flashy lites play on teh catwalk and tekno music begins to play* NOM - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
It was a quiet, unflashy life that went with his shy, melancholy, unconfident character. Times, Sunday Times
More on Ascot Tina Gaudoin on Style: A Flashy, Positively Ghastly Spectacle A Week at the Races This devotion to the Platonic ideal of the horse's head, rather than to representations of, for example, individual racehorses, readily distinguishes his sculptures from the rather pedestrian, often slightly kitsch, bronzes so often found decorating the houses of "horsey" people. A Magnificent Obsession
She barely noticed a flashy sports car almost run them over, until Eddie lunged forward and grabbed her body away.
Based on the French novella by Prosper Merimee and the popular opera by Georges Bizet, Carmen is the story of a fiery Spanish gypsy who spurns her obsessive soldier lover for a flashy bullfighter.
The design was simple and effective, neither being too flashy nor showy, proving the point that sometimes less is more.
But the Wayne, Pa., resident with the flashy volleys has taken a late-is-better-than-never approach in summoning the internal reserves it takes to go deep into a major. USATODAY.com - Raymond doesn't love everybody labeling her
Before Wright arrived, the forward line worked around Alan Smith, an unflashy 20-a-season man, a player as traditional as jellied eels.
There's kudos in finding a great fashion look at a modest price and without the obvious pointer of a flashy designer label.
Steve's favourite fantasy was to own a big house and a flashy car.
And the less flashy tablets can be as much as EIGHT times cheaper. The Sun
Though you're a flashy coachman, here the gagger holds the whip, Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896]
Voting for the man with the glibbest line, the flashy smile, who says whatever his current audience wants to hear is NEVER a recipe for a good leader. Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me
They like flashy hotels and fast cars and male-middle-age-crisis motor bikes.
If you've ever been inside a Judaica store, you know from which I speak -- monstrous menorahs, krass kiddish cups and flashy door mezuzahs with motion detectors. Rich Siegel: Are Jew Kidding?
It's not just about his unflashy lifestyle. Times, Sunday Times
The fake page does have a realistic look to it, complete with a flashy cover graphic.
And there was poor old Flashy, caught behind the companies of the 24th as they poured their volley-firing into the "chest" of the Zulu army, cheering and shouting for the ammunition-carriers, and Durnford 's bald forehead glinting in the sun above his splendid whiskers as he pulled his men back to the donga and blazed away at the left "horn" sweeping in towards them. Watershed
It is a strange place for someone who is so deliberately unflashy to live.
The flashy intellectual brilliance of Fox is no match for the wisdom of ages, the common sense of the freeborn Englishman.
The consultants recognized, too, that their success depended on more than simply bolting a flashy Web site to an existing business.
The television version will struggle to compare, no matter how flashy the cinematics. Times, Sunday Times
There will be few flashy signs or attention-seeking gestures.
The most proletarian working-class of markets with none of the flashy glamour of Petticoat Lane. COFFIN ON THE WATER
The flashy automobile was as well-known in the area as its driver.
The "bhai", when sarcastically affixed to a Gujju name, especially by a non-Gujju, reflects a certain state of Gujju being: well-fed and flashy WN.com - Business News
It's unflashy, but extremely effective.
But they don't seem to care and have already bought a flashy new car. The Sun
The Bandai-published remake delivers the best of both ages, making over retro robot designs with flashy modern animation.
The word sister tore across my hearing—Victoria, with her big sunglasses and flashy ring, out of place inside the little shop in her summery black dress. The Legacy
Even as the excitement could sink in, Samba dancers, flown in all the way from Rio de Janeiro, pepped up the mood with a flashy and scintillating performance, wiggling every inch of their bodies.
In LA, some have even gained "celebrity" status with the advent of cable television: fast-talking, freewheeling "get-it-done" types with crisp attires and flashy modes of transportation. Nick Segal: 5 Key Questions to Ask Your Potential Real Estate Agent Before Hiring
The honours system is flashy, pretentious, and kitsch. Times, Sunday Times
You don't see anything very flashy at home but there is not a standout horse this year. Times, Sunday Times
You could buy unflashy batters far cheaper than superstar pitchers. Times, Sunday Times
I saw another side to the Khalsa when we set out for Lahore after noon, Flashy now riding in state in his jampan, white topper and fly-whisk at the high port, with Jassa kicking the bearers 'arses to give tone to our progress. Flashman And The Mountain Of Light
In a world full of flashy starters who can't go nine innings, her stock-in-trade is going the distance and taking dreamy entrepreneurs right along with her.
What was very strange was that he's owned a string of flashy cars. Times, Sunday Times
It was dirt cheap, as opposed to flashy. Indian Balm - Travels in the Southern Subcontinent
It's the psychological equivalent of having a flashy red sports car plus the bank balance and looks to match.
When Americans lived on farms in isolated towns where they grew, made, and bartered for everything they used, they could not purchase beer at a saloon, sex from a prostitute, contraceptives and pornography from a corner shop, or flashy clothes from British importers. A Renegade History of the United States
She'd no notion of leisurely love-making, either; thirty seconds of gentle dalliance and she started behaving like the Empress Theodora run amok, with poor old Flashy fighting for his life, belaboured by balloons of black jelly. THE NUMBERS
The foxtrot is not a flashy dance; its motor impulse is more akin to clockworks than, say, the hip-driven stampede nature of the samba. Stars That Truly Dance
Jilkes writhed inside his flashy suiting, cracked his bony knuckles and looked up at the ceiling, as if for inspiration. THE FIVE MILLION DOLLAR PRINCE
Young men and women dressed in flashy pants and skimpy dresses sat at long tables on three sides of a dance floor, downing huge amounts of cheap whiskey. Thai Noon
The mood is intimate, with Rae's unflashy style and crystal-clear voice used to mixed effect, best on quiet ballads, less successful on the bossa novas.
And neons are something easy, but maybe a bit too flashy… hehe…
You drive through a neighbourhood of large, pricy houses with flashy cars on the drive. Times, Sunday Times
The US rapper has also had one of the flashy supercars installed as a dinner table in his multimillion dollar pad. The Sun
But I had felt no urge to buy a palace, live in the opulent luxury I could certainly afford, or buy flashy cars. A CONVICTION OF GUILT
So when this place came along with its flashy new bathroom and sash windows, we thought it was too good to be true. Times, Sunday Times
He has contacts within the flashy high-speed world of Formula One and some of the men involved in his financial swoop for City are believed to be from the Grand Prix circuit.
I smiled at her flashy red sundress she wore under her floury apron and the studs lining her ear lobes.
Gradually the panellists changed, becoming less flashy and belligerent and a bit quieter. Times, Sunday Times
The designer even managed to transfer a brocade lattice motif over the curvaceous sheepskin jacket coupled with fluttering silk skirt, and dyed all his furs in flashy tones of blue, pink and purple.
Multimedia is also associated with flashy video clips, musical sound bytes and colorful animations; the theory seems to be that in order to compete with television, education must outdazzle the boob tube. Technomania
His close control is marginally functional, unimpeachable, without being flashy and he has the ability to almost collide with an opponent before ghosting past him.
His midi is crazy-chic, austere, graceful and non-flashy. What I bought this week: witty tights
People who aren't flashy and attention-grabbing aren't as popular. Who Is Popular at First Sight?
She is best known for her love of big, flashy earrings, with many of the pairs worn on screen being sent in by her legion of fans. The Sun
It's rich and gorgeous but stops short of flashy. Times, Sunday Times
It's rich and gorgeous but stops short of flashy. Times, Sunday Times
Once more it was the forehand, a less flashy stroke than her backhand but a more reliable one, that did the job. Times, Sunday Times
Styling is not too flashy, yet exudes class and a quiet confidence.
He was a baseliner, nothing flashy but brutally fit and completely uncompromising. Times, Sunday Times
There was a mean landlord who wore flashy clothes and banged on the door when the rent was due.
He ain't what you call a flashy dresser, but he lays it all over the young chaps like Thad West who think they're so swell. Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale
But unflashy, low-key initiatives can go a long way. Times, Sunday Times
The brass instrument has long been seen as a vehicle for many flashy players as well as subtle coaxers of tone.
Forget flashy cut scenes, blistering frame rates, multi-faceted characters and open worlds. The Sun
He is unassuming and quietly controlled, anything but flashy or extravagant.
The main avenue made sense to him only as fragments of a discordant puzzle: mirrored glass and throbbing loudspeakers, a modishness that seemed pirated, misplaced; here, a flashy music store; there, the facade of a hamburger shop litigiously similar to an American franchise. Heaven Lake
Count eight paces from the high chair to the flashy space at the studio's end.
It's full of revolutionary zeal and flashy dancing. Times, Sunday Times
He engages the entire article, not merely the flashy opening spread.
I wore my hair up in a loose and messy topknot with these flashy, oversized rhinestone hoops. Real wifeys
The flashy looking vinos - with easy to remember brand names and grape varieties everyone is comfy with - appeal to many only because they offend none.
Simultaneously stockbrokers' traditional sombre suits and conservative shirts gave way to flashy turnback cuffs.
This very lawyerish approach to spending big money is thorough, careful and unflashy. Times, Sunday Times
If her conduct was forward, well, her connubial expectations had been dashed by the recreant Popplewell, and the arrival of Flashy with whiskers rampant must have seemed like the answer to a randy young matron's prayer. THE NUMBERS
It combings downhill speed with flashy aerial maneuvers as skiers propel themselves over a succession of bumps. Donna Weinbrecht
Pastels, stonewashed designer jeans, neon, flashy cars, big hair - the 80's had it all.
Overall, a not unpleasing design that's maybe a tad on the flashy side for me, but that's a matter of personal taste, and it clearly makes sense for Sendo to position it at the geeky end of the market.
Spartacus" is a flashy, big-budget attempt to forge a brand, complete with a big-name costar (Lucy Lawless, erstwhile heroine of the syndicated "Xena: Warrior Princess") and the heavily stylized, comic-book-like use of green-screen technology familiar from movies like "300" and "Sin City. Poststar.com RSS
A sound mind woos a woman much more than a flashy car would.
Those who have been lumbering may easily be known among the others, by sporting a flashy stock or waistcoat, and by being arrayed in "boughten" clothes, procured in town at a most expensive rate in lieu of their lumber. Sketches and Tales Illustrative of Life in the Backwoods of New Brunswick, North America
The Maple Leafs acquired a steady, if not flashy, blueliner.
Then it's over to flashy dance floors and fast pulsating music that becomes all the more stirring after quaffing a few mugs of chilled beer or a few pegs of booze.
Parents and children watch as people compete for big bucks, expensive holidays and flashy cars.
I'm not saying children's entertainment has to be loud, flashy, and percussive - far from it.
He did not engage in flashy reform, or buzz-word-of-the-day ‘programs’ which places like Curry churn out endlessly. A Brief History of C'ville Superintendents at cvillenews.com
It came into being in the 1990s, when every hip-hop video was full of flashy cars and gold jewellery.
But the most extraordinary thing about his success here is that Mr. Swann is basically an ordinary player: There ' s nothing flashy about him, he doesn ' t bowl a " googly " or a " doosra " or any of the other mystery deliveries that can leave batsmen looking bewildered. Swann on Song for England
We are saving only for short to medium term goals, such as purchasing a flashy car.
It's a big truck, yet looks both sporty and flashy. The Sun
On small things I was thrifty enough; no expenditures on "carousing," flashy clothes, or any of the other indulgences that are often smugly believed to undermine the budgets of the poor. Nickel and Dimed
There's more body movement, though - the hand on the chin is a favourite, showing off the unflashy watch and slim wedding band.
Wrap a whippet-thin rhinestone sash or a leather belt with a mondo flashy buckle around your waist.
That would do, we didn't want anything flashy. Times, Sunday Times
We are proudly independent, ethnocentric, xenophobic, and nativistic, he argued, while showing off his flashy vocabulary.
A simple piece with meaningful choreography that your dancers can perform well is better than a flashy number that's beyond their abilities.
I mean, don't tell me that I'm turning into a politician, skipping over the real problems to focus on the flashy, easily remedied crowd-pleasers.
At least Kaisa has his address in Oslo, whither she flies, dressed in a smart black business suit, and promptly rents a flashy new car with which to impress Tomas (claiming it as her own).
There are no flashy fills - instead, he's content to add subtle color with variations in volume and pace.
The flashy car belonged to the most annoying person in the world if Lillian had any vote.
I just want a good reliable car, nothing flashy.
Though some might even argue that it's beaucoup plus cocktail than London, what with its particular brand of super flashy footbally affluence and designer glamour.
So we go to some flashy restaurant, about six of us, and over desert, I ask him how many Vice Presidents there are.
The results are almost always flashy and image-obsessed, detracting from the richness of human use and experience.
Miller made use of his team's relatively unflashy, underdog status.
What is written appears to be out of emotional necessity, with no patience for flashy baroque flourishes or camped-up emotional exhibitionism.
The work is a sophisticated, synoptic genre piece, its composition and bravura brushwork invoking forerunners from flashy late Mannerists to late Baroque virtuosos such as Crespi or Piazzetta.
The album is a classic power-rock album built on roaring chords and flashy solos on guitar, insistent drumming and straight-ahead vocals. New Power Trio Muscles Through
The first is that flashy cars cost a fortune to run. Times, Sunday Times
On these five instrumental pieces he's stripped away all of his music's inessentials, excising overwrought vocals or flashy solos to instead pare these blues-based excursions down to a streamlined, locomotive core.
Dear, riches and honour is flourishing be like cloud drift , human society is the most painful it is Sai Lian, actually I very fear to be in flashy lose you!
The first and most obvious thing is that we are both flashy dressers.
His work is flashy and colourful, his architectural ideas tweetable and his politics buried deep. Times, Sunday Times
Steve's favourite fantasy was to own a big house and a flashy car.
What I find more sinister are organisations that suddenly announce flashy new names. Times, Sunday Times
In a scene that revolves around flashy launches and exclusive parties, the London fashion crowd is often hard to please. Times, Sunday Times
There are no flashy lights or LED's so if this is something you are looking for, look elsewhere; the unit is designed to be functional and simple above all else.
Marbella, with its magnificent boutiques, extraordinary yachts and flashy patrons is best sampled by night.
There's a reason that Will, who enjoys the flashy tchotchkes of his bachelorhood, chose to live the way that he did, and that's because it is much more exciting than settling down.
One regular said: 'She hung around with a big group of flashy guys. The Sun
Spanish mackerel, pompano, bluefish, skipjacks and - yes - speckled trout are among the flashy vanguards of summer.
It seems to be the fashion right now, but my car is just a little runaround, it's not anything flashy and that's the worrying thing.
Your flashy world of moving pictures and gender equality is strange and foreign to me.
The first is that flashy cars cost a fortune to run. Times, Sunday Times
In the 20th century some players inserted wildly inappropriate cadenzas in Classical concertos, either displaying flashy technique or modulating to keys so remote as to wreck the tonal balance of the movement.
The moment I entered the shop, I was instantly attracted to Sony's DJ headphones (in flashy packaging) which had a frequency between 14 Hz and 22,000Hz. Archive 2007-08-01
Flashy new trucks and cars have replaced jalopies. Houston Chronicle
I have seen some young beggars with expensive flashy running shoes, with a quality brand name.
The color palette is not too flashy, nor too dull, creating a perfect balance. Bedroom Design Ideas from Hulsta
There was never anything flashy and bling about him.
He specializes in flashy technique, without much depth.
He's not loud and flashy, and he doesn't call a lot of attention to himself.
As it turns out, it's a big, flashy showcase for a flow of greatcoats, crepe dresses and mohair sweaters.
What makes Whiteman sexy, according to Bobo, is that she isn't flashy like Sarah Palin, but rather "detail-oriented, managerial, tough-minded, effective but a little dry. Allison Kilkenny: Celebrating Pretend and Cruel Conservatives
Zaire, as the Congo was rechristened, had its natural resources plundered to fund his passion for flashy cars and chartered Concorde flights - this at a time when the country's average annual income was below $120.
It wears its queerness like a flashy Dolce and Gabbana blouse, with style and humor and camp - but an intentional lack of tragedy.
The writing itself is not flashy, nor is it overly inventive; actually it's quite plain in places.
He does not play golf, wear flashy cufflinks or like wine. Times, Sunday Times
Did not do anything too flashy. The Sun
He therefore does not wear ‘sponge bag’ trousers, similar to chinos, or the flashy, personalised waistcoats sported by William and other prefects.
And I'm not doing flashy participational ritual - I'm about as word-centered as they come - but high school youth have given some of the most thoughtful feedback I've ever received. Philocrites: So much for 'Con Con: The Movie.'
Flying winemakers and a bright, ripe, flashy set of world-conquering wines are now set to grab the world's attention.
Lamenting her partner's pitiable dancing, one of the female characters pleas for a real dancer, and her call is answered by an immodest Balthasar decked out in what appears to be a flashy 1980s-style suit.
Taste is the watchword: sumptuous fabrics, meticulous tailoring, but simple lines and nothing flashy, so as to focus attention on her face; from the neck up, she's a beauty.
With its swirled flashy design and swishy beaded fringe, the lampshades are like a flirtatious smile in a roomful of strangers, bold and impossible to ignore.
Everything is loud, flashy and lacking depth in the city, more sedate and interesting in the countryside.
The $1 million-a-day heroin empire of a notorious Harlem druglord was brought down by his flashy fur coat, the kingpin says. Druglord ‘gangster’ fashion victim «
Weblogging software creates a highly effective and simple way of helping people create fully functional - if unflashy - regularly updated websites.
It's not too flashy but is clearly navigable and easy to understand.
You know the type, the hideous old men who buy flashy cars and date women half their age?
Once more it was the forehand, a less flashy stroke than her backhand but a more reliable one, that did the job. Times, Sunday Times
The flashy gear turned you, however unwillingly, into a sort of pied piper of Western materialism.
It wasn't mind-blowing but it was nice to know that not everyone in the city owned a flashy car.
Hip euro-kids in unhip clothes bounded out of flashy cars.
Punters believing the flashy chestnut son of Lord Ballina to be as unbeatable as Sunline backed him in to just short of odds-on favorite.
Typically, the safety advice to travelers to Mexico is to avoid driving at night, don't wear flashy clothing or jewelry, don't engage in illicit conduct etc. It may not be a trend, but it does happen
In pristine condition it looks campily flashy; distressed it becomes manky. Times, Sunday Times
He wore his guilt like a piece of gaudy jewelry, bright and flashy and probably fake.
This taut three-part thriller offers a masterclass in superb, unflashy acting. Times, Sunday Times
In a scene that revolves around flashy launches and exclusive parties, the London fashion crowd is often hard to please. Times, Sunday Times
Instead of flashy colours and trippy effects, we get splashes of water with shimmering droplets and creatures as lithe as Russian gymnasts.
He opened it, the first page emblazoned with flashy colours and busy patterns.
In comparison with some of the content, it's a distinctly unflashy site.
Altogether unflashy, The Good Girl remains first and foremost an actor's movie.
Jim Louderback, who may have been a flashy personality on cable TV but obviously has never been either a lawyer or an engineer, is apparently ignorant of the fact is that the FCC's authority was not "invalidated" - it never had such authority in the first place, and was trying to usurp powers that neither we, the people nor our Congress ever gave it. Original Signal - The best of Web 2.0
Up close they were head-high in a riot of color: red paintbrush, lavender fleabane, hot-pink fireweed, white cow parsnip, lacy green false hellebore, the flashy red of chokecherries, white pearls of baneberry, rich purple huckleberries, fierce yellows of butterweed and arnica. Blood Lure
A modest, nonattention-getting outfit beats a flashy get-up every time.
It's the psychological equivalent of having a flashy red sports car plus the bank balance and looks to match.

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