How to use "pompous" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "pompous" in popular movie and book plots

  • Travers delivers an embittered and pompous lecture to his wife, criticising her behaviour.  - The Rescue (Conrad novel)
  • Indeed Arturo falls in love with beautiful Matilda, promised in marriage to a pompous man of Bergamo.  - Il pesce innamorato
  • They are thrown out of their hotel by a pompous manager (John Cleese) who also indulges in cross dressing.  - The Out-of-Towners (1999 film)
  • Buddhadev Gupta is an arrogant, ego-centric, pompous man with a singular passion in life — cooking.  - Cheeni Kum
  • The ensuing hunt continues, including the hiring of pompous big-game hunter Colonel Brock (Henry Silva) to track the animal.  - Alligator (film)
  • Generally, such occasions heralded pompous celebration, but this one had not.  - The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years
  • The commander in charge of the camp is a pompous imperialist called Kato (Masaya Kato).  - Fighter in the Wind
  • The ashram is ruled by Madhumati (Manorama), a pompous lady in her 70s.  - Water (2005 film)
  • Later the Bennets are visited by mr Collins, a pompous clergyman who talks of little but his patroness, Lady Catherine de Bourgh.  - Pride & Prejudice (2005 film)
  • Edgar is an awkward young man whom the others dismiss as pompous and half-mad.  - They Do It with Mirrors
  • Elsie arrives at the embassy and is soon joined by the Prince Regent, a stiff and pompous man.  - The Prince and the Showgirl
  • Skippy "rescues" Marian from Lady Kluck, who pretends to be a pompous Prince John.  - Robin Hood (1973 film)
  • Who is the strange, pompous foreign boy Gustavus Barmilevo invited to the children's home by Bill for the holidays.  - The Adventure Series
  • Georgette, her pompous and pampered poodle, is enraged and jealous of his presence and wants him removed from the household.  - Oliver & Company
  • Her presence creates an awkward situation, but when Samia, a pompous family friend, ridicules her, Bobby comes to her defense.  - Five Easy Pieces
  • He is a pompous and obsequious clergyman because he expects each of the Bennet girls to wish to marry him due to his inheritance.  - Pride and Prejudice

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