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Showboating | Showboat | Showboats

Showboating meaning

present participle and gerund of showboat

Using Showboating

  • The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of showboat
  • In the example corpus, showboating often appears in combinations such as: his showboating.

Context around Showboating

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 29.8 words
  • Position in the sentence: 5 start, 7 middle, 2 end
  • Sentence types: 14 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Corpus analysis for Showboating

  • In this selection, "showboating" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 29.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, visual, excessive, piquant, thomas, liam and dick stand out and add context to how "showboating" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include and excessive showboating the rule and at the showboating liam jones. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "showboating" sits close to words such as aaronson, abai and abass, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with showboating

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

The kind of visual showboating that stirs the imagination, fires up one's emotions, and questions the status quo. (19 words)

Whittaker's showboating, against opponents he is heavily favoured to beat, has divided opinion but also boosted his popularity. (19 words)

He has been showboating through show trials for most of his career, so he looked very much up for the game. (21 words)

Gov. Phil Murphy responded to New Jersey’s top state lawmaker for suggesting the governor was “showboating” by holding a news conference Monday on a long-delayed effort to raise the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour. (39 words)

That’s when the contrasts with Jared Howelton’s showboating Thomas Jefferson and Deon’te Goodman’s glowering Aaron Burr come into sharp focus, all leavened by the sweet brokenhearted figure of Eliza (Nikisha Williams), Hamilton’s wife. (38 words)

He said: "This defendant clearly took umbrage at the showboating Liam Jones engaged in. He wanted to teach him a lesson and sought to exact control of the situation by maintaining a menacing presence. (34 words)

Example sentences (14)

He has been showboating through show trials for most of his career, so he looked very much up for the game.

That’s when the contrasts with Jared Howelton’s showboating Thomas Jefferson and Deon’te Goodman’s glowering Aaron Burr come into sharp focus, all leavened by the sweet brokenhearted figure of Eliza (Nikisha Williams), Hamilton’s wife.

The kind of visual showboating that stirs the imagination, fires up one's emotions, and questions the status quo.

He said: "This defendant clearly took umbrage at the showboating Liam Jones engaged in. He wanted to teach him a lesson and sought to exact control of the situation by maintaining a menacing presence.

Two weeks ago, Young Africans star Aziz Ki labelled Vilakazi's showboating when they beat Kaizer Chiefs 4-0 in the Toyota Cup at Free State Stadium as “nonsense”.

Whittaker's showboating, against opponents he is heavily favoured to beat, has divided opinion but also boosted his popularity.

The NBA All-Star Game changes hope to rescue a competition that has largely devolved into a run-and-shoot affair over the last few years, with defense forgotten and excessive showboating the rule.

Hawley throws a lot at the screen, including a gun, a distraction (Pearl Amanda Dickson), a little piquant showboating (from Ellen Burstyn as Lucy’s grandmother) and some reductive ideas about women and power.

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He was on the receiving end of hefty challenges, but was also perceived to antagonize Strasbourg’s players with his showboating.

I gritted my teeth and laughed through their obnoxious post-goal celebrations because succeeding wildly and being a showboating dick about it is pretty much the American dream.

It's Keaton, though, who does more interesting work in the film, while Nicholson remodels the Joker explicitly in the freewheeling, showboating image of an archetypal Jack performance — a collective caricature of Nicholsonian moments.

As for his showboating entries into the end zone, including the late 38-yard score, Tate said he let his emotions get away from him and called it selfish play on his part.

Gov. Phil Murphy responded to New Jersey’s top state lawmaker for suggesting the governor was “showboating” by holding a news conference Monday on a long-delayed effort to raise the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour.

However, his flight logbook also showed numerous red ink warnings about showboating and overconfidence, and because of dangerous flying in an Armstrong Whitworth Siskin he was disqualified from the end of term flying contest.

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Common combinations with showboating

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

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Showboating means: present participle and gerund of showboat
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