Get to know Aggrandizing better with 9 real example sentences, the meaning.
Aggrandizing meaning
present participle and gerund of aggrandize
Using Aggrandizing
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of aggrandize
Context around Aggrandizing
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 4 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 9 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Aggrandizing
- In this selection, "aggrandizing" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 25.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, self, mess, tirade and dilettantes stand out and add context to how "aggrandizing" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a self aggrandizing exercise the and a self aggrandizing tirade that. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "aggrandizing" sits close to words such as aakash, aanholt and aardwolf, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with aggrandizing
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
We knew that our wonderful free press was made up of self-aggrandizing dilettantes. (14 words)
Speaking of civility, it's also polite to respond to others more than self aggrandizing oneself. (16 words)
Did folks in ancient Rome ever murmur to each other saying, “What an ugly, gaudy, self-aggrandizing mess that is. (20 words)
The original title for these drawings was Mr Punch's face is the letter Q and the new title "cartoon" was intended to be ironic, a reference to the self-aggrandizing posturing of Westminster politicians. (35 words)
But his crisis of conscience is short-circuited when he sees his old nemesis, Howard Hamlin (Patrick Fabian) and explodes in a self-aggrandizing tirade that buries Jimmy under an avalanche of Saul. (33 words)
Into this symbolic sartorial milieu comes this month’s film an exquisite Belle Époque romp starring Keira Knightley as the mononymous French writer and Dominic West as her charming, self-aggrandizing husband, Willy. (33 words)
Example sentences (9)
Did folks in ancient Rome ever murmur to each other saying, “What an ugly, gaudy, self-aggrandizing mess that is.
But his crisis of conscience is short-circuited when he sees his old nemesis, Howard Hamlin (Patrick Fabian) and explodes in a self-aggrandizing tirade that buries Jimmy under an avalanche of Saul.
We knew that our wonderful free press was made up of self-aggrandizing dilettantes.
When he’s in this self-aggrandizing mode, YoungBoy Never Broke Again is rowdy, clipping his words into terse bursts.
I can't believe we're 40 comments in, and no self-aggrandizing HR types have jumped in to post all about the interesting CV's they've turned away.
Into this symbolic sartorial milieu comes this month’s film an exquisite Belle Époque romp starring Keira Knightley as the mononymous French writer and Dominic West as her charming, self-aggrandizing husband, Willy.
In what can easily pass for a self-aggrandizing exercise, the MP said “whether they like me or not, I am always part of every decision.
Speaking of civility, it's also polite to respond to others more than self aggrandizing oneself.
The original title for these drawings was Mr Punch's face is the letter Q and the new title "cartoon" was intended to be ironic, a reference to the self-aggrandizing posturing of Westminster politicians.