How To Use Showboat In A Sentence
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The two detectives are a hard-edged tough guy and a showboating, overconfident rookie.
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During his NATO days, the studious soldier struck many officers as a showboat.
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No samba style and no mazy dribbles or showboating.
The Sun
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Whole day tour at Sydney Ms. Macquarie's Seat, Opera House, Botanic Garden, The Rocks, ; Darling Harbour including Sydney Showboat Jazz Luncheon Cruise, China Town, Bondi Beach.
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With fighting, trash-talking, cursing, and endzone dances strictly prohibited, the only type of player not welcome in the USFTL is a showboat.
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If, in reviews, Paul Morgan comes off as a showboater and Jim Javor seems like a modest Luddite, then Randy Bott, who has since fallen out of the top 25, is sui generis.
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Indeed, I'm a bit suspicious of ‘inspiring’ clerics since usually that means they are showboats who are trying to wrench the focus away from Christ and onto themselves.
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Today at the "showboat" job summit which is nothing but a pile of crap, one of the ideas was extending unemployment for the people that fall off the rolls in January.
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I'd rather just loudly insist that people who favor war go fight in it themselves or be damned as showboaters and shirkers.
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And look, you can keep showboating for the cameras, but we made clear what our views are.
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The 35-year-old Silva, one-time showboater in the fight, no longer smirked or pranked, and was merely content to skip away from a desperate challenger and breathe heavily whenever the final round offered a lull.
Elliot Worsell: The Method in Chael Sonnen's Madness
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In consequence they strove to accent the competitive element and eliminate any attempt at showboating at every opportunity.
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Why knock someone who at least is playing the game and not showboating?
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I couldn't believe how quickly my instincts came back; I was as slick with the trackball as ever, even showboating a tad when possible.
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He's been called, variously, a showboat, a stud, a lazybones, a workhorse, a whiner, a powerhouse, an overachiever, an underachiever, you name it.
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For once, showboating and over-elaborate play had replaced their usual ruthless efficiency.
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Our antihero is the rookie racing-car sensation Lightning McQueen (Owen Wilson), a go-it-alone, look-out-for-number-one showboat with an agent in Hollywood (who else but Jeremy Piven) and dreams of big-bucks corporate sponsorship.
Life in the Fast Lane
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Saints, indeed, indulged in a spot of showboating, knocking the ball around their backline repeatedly, drawing the customary ole's from their fans.
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When he scored his fourth goal of the afternoon, we were forced to forgive his showboating and other antics.
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He likes death-wish powerboating, ballooning at stratospheric altitudes and showboating for the cameras in fancy dress with scantily-clad hired women.
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Forty-four tunes ranging from the early jazz stompers, showboat classics and fragile swing numbers to her mournful - almost unbearable - masterpiece Strange Fruit.
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And how would the United captain have responded to him showboating and losing possession, allowing Norwich to go up the other end and double their lead?
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They could not be more different - one a headline-seeking showboater, the other a gritty tradesman - but they love batting together.
The Sun
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While he is off showboating as ‘Archbishop of New York,’ Daily is content to go by the unassuming title of Bishop of Brooklyn.
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At the start of the sixth a stunning uppercut by Harrison rocked McCulloch and he responded with the waggle of a boxer trying to disguise the fact that he had been hurt by showboating.
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Sweden are showboating now, passing the ball around while running down the clock.
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He was young and handsome yet modest: He did not showboat in front of the camera and he was unassuming around his colleagues here at the UN press club.
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Stuart Pearce epitomises the 'passion' that Arsenal are supposed to lack but even the most rousing display of passion is as much about showboating as any prancing triple stepover.
Arsenal's failure to win trophies is not down to faint hearts | Barney Ronay
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However great his talents, a showboater who always wants the ball can easily become a distraction.
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Women leaders need to be tough enough to confront people and to make hard decisions, yet when they exhibit such stalwartness, they may be criticized for being brash or showboating.
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Surely only a very foolish arts student would dismiss that opportunity as showboating?
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‘He's not a showboater, but he gets results,’ says Margaret La Montagne Spellings.
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Everybody wants to dunk and showboat, but few can make free throws or pass the ball.
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The talk was about knockdown pitches thrown to hitters who had showboated after hitting home runs.
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And look at her, showboating for the cameras.
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The webpage also provides access to additional entertainment and leisure experiences; anything from a Cher concert, a Harbour Bridge climb, water rafting or a romantic majestic cruise on a Sydney showboat.
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True, he has been a shameless showboater, but not half as shameless as the absurd prosecutor.
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No samba style and no mazy dribbles or showboating.
The Sun
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It doesn't get much better than this and in the middle of the second half the England players could begin showboating.
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Whole day tour at Sydney Ms. Macquarie's Seat, Opera House, Botanic Garden, The Rocks, ; Darling Harbour including Sydney Showboat Jazz Luncheon Cruise, China Town, Bondi Beach.
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When the over-confident Ricky starts showboating, Bobby knocks him for a loop.
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Sure, the Ravens still won the game, but any time you see a player who is showboating get shown up, it's a good day.
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Would he gurn and showboat?
Times, Sunday Times
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But he was seen inside the White House as a "showboater" whose stature didn't warrant a high-level administration response.
August 2005
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He's a showboater, she's a rowboater.
Times, Sunday Times
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Back in the days of showboats (when people in most nooks and crannies of the nation were familiar with Shakespeare, however crudely presented) one impresario wintered his four-boat fleet here.
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Webb is a hack, a showboater and an ass, and even his own party is quietly saying he should be smarter about the image he wants to project.
Webb: "I Don't Think The Lack Of Courtesy Was Mine."
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The snap had momentarily been drained from Hatton's punches though, and Vilches was gaining confidence, as he occasionally showboated and puffed out his chest in a sign of machismo, in a way that only South Americans know how.
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Before the Civil War, there was definitely an American river of that name, and steamboats, including showboats like the one commanded by Commodore Jackson, could navigate the river.
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Given his tendency to egomaniacally showboat, his departure probably isn't much of a loss to ABC.
Chez Pazienza: John Stossel: Across the Great Divide
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Figo converted and Real Madrid proceeded to shine and (mostly beyond them this season) showboat their way to a rattling 4-2 triumph.
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By comparison, the Miami series suffers from hambone David Caruso's showboating - the shameless way he slips into action hero poses, doffing his sunglasses to brush aside a pesky forelock when jumping from a car.
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A natural athlete, he made up for it by showboating in his favorite sports: skateboarding and surfing.
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That's why everyone has a story about a Wise Man corpsing at a key moment, or a showboating Shepherd hogging the limelight.
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I figured he was something of a showboat and would be trouble if he didn't get stroked.
FOOLS GOLD
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Then one day your showboating will catch up with you and you'll eventfully fall into a sinkhole and break both your legs.
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Unfortunately, we are over whelmed by the vocal, showboating fringe.
Separating Art from Idiocy
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Shridhar was always a showboater and wanted Keanu Reeves, while Arivindan and Usiku both selected Harrison Ford as their theatrical doubles.
Passeridae
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Arpaio is a corrupt media showboater whose antics on the streets and in the jails have resulted in lawsuits that have cost the county millions of dollars.
Controversial Arizona sheriff considers run for governor's seat
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The show had well passed its sell by date (it pre-dated Showboat on Broadway, where it opened the Ziegfeld Theatre).
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In 1957, the "Little Showboat" made its debut and took passengers on a leisurely "paddle" around the lake.
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Straight line retrieves is not important except for showboat owners.
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Showboat all you want in baseball, but you've still got to step into the batter's box and hit the damn ball.
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‘The Bull’ made it a fight with Harrison occasionally showboating after being hit.
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I'd rather just loudly insist that people who favor war go fight in it themselves or be damned as showboaters and shirkers.
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Kevin Reilly is a low-key host who doesn’t showboat.
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He's a showboat outfielder who's famous for his flamboyant catches.
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By now it should be clear that even the most rousing display of "passion" – the sleeve rolling, the finger wagging – is as much about showboating as any prancing triple stepover.
Arsenal's failure to win trophies is not down to faint hearts | Barney Ronay
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When he scored his fourth goal of the afternoon, we were forced to forgive his showboating and other antics.
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There seems to be a subtle hint that Edwards is an ambitious showboater who just wants to be president.
Compare And Contrast: Hillary Camp's Approach To Obama Vs. Approach To Edwards
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I thought that given a better part he could have fulfilled the promise he showed but not as the stereotyped gambler with a heart, which has so littered the American musical scene since Gaylord Ravenal applied for a job on a showboat.
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But he's running the risk he'll be remembered more as a showboat than one of the better wide receivers of his time.
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The professor has a tendency to showboat beafore his classes.
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They voice their concern that Jordan won't stop showboating when they're filming her.
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But she was criticized as a showboat for her victory prance around the field with an enormous fake gold medal dangling from her neck and a cell phone pressed to her ear.
The Bad Girl of Women’s Soccer
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No samba style and no mazy dribbles or showboating.
The Sun
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The guy is a bit of a showboater, but I thought that was pure class.
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No samba style and no mazy dribbles or showboating.
The Sun
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This is pretty common in Mexico, where written sources often take a higher tone and "showboat".
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Perhaps taking their cues from their camera-friendly mayor and the city's bellicose preachers, it seems everyone in Newark has become an irate showboater, in love with the sound of his or her own fury - to which the public servants are obligated to listen, no matter how much they've heard it before.
'Brick City' breaks away from its solid mold
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Like all good things, or at least like all bleach-streaked showboats, he can't last forever.
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He seemed destined for a career of peripheral self-indulgence, a YouTube showboater and gimmicky solo act who could not integrate his astonishing artistry into a team.
QPR's swashbuckling Adel Taarabt leads ranks of second division Caesars | Rob Bagchi
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Before the Civil War, there was definitely an American river of that name, and steamboats, including showboats like the one commanded by Commodore Jackson, could navigate the river.
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When he scored his fourth goal of the afternoon, we were forced to forgive his showboating and other antics.
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Many Barth obsessions creep up here, among them Maryland's Chesapeake River, the Arabian Nights, Noah's Ark and even a showboat named the Original Floating Opera II.
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No samba style and no mazy dribbles or showboating.
The Sun
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I showboated and he knocked me down with a stiff left.
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Lets hope her constituents rise up in the next election and oust this unqualified and opportunitistic showboater who only won by running against an unpopular and dying incumbent.
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City officials have inspected tourist showboats in recent months after it was discovered the boats were releasing untreated waste into the ocean.
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‘It's not our nature to showboat or to take credit,’ she continues.
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The showboat paddled slowly toward the shore.
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Most elections, like this one, are full of languor and anxious imitation, where any semblance of vision is replaced by meretricious showboating, of the kind for which Jospin had no talent.
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How many knew or worried about their dead relatives' organs until they were stirred up by showboating politicians, chancing lawyers, and medical crusaders?
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The job isn't to be a showboat or an original, in those situations - it's to serve the voice of the magazine, or the TV show.
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He's been called, variously, a showboat, a stud, a lazybones, a workhorse, a whiner, a powerhouse, an overachiever, an underachiever, you name it.
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He seemed destined for a career of peripheral self-indulgence, a YouTube showboater and gimmicky solo act who could not integrate his astonishing artistry into a team.
QPR's swashbuckling Adel Taarabt leads ranks of second division Caesars | Rob Bagchi
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The show tells of the fortunes, and misfortunes, of Magnolia, the daughter of the owner of the showboat and her gambler husband Gaylord Ravenal.
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Had I not known what his case was really worth, Duncan's showboat tactics might not have disgusted me so.
A KING'S RANSOM
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But she was criticized as a showboat for her victory prance around the field with an enormous fake gold medal dangling from her neck and a cell phone pressed to her ear.
The Bad Girl of Women’s Soccer