Sentence examples for an extravagant amount from inspiring English sources

It wasn't an extravagant amount," Whyte recalls.

"It means someone who spends an extravagant amount of money".

The stuffing has expanded over the years, with my kitchen confidence, to accommodate sausage, orange juice, parsley, thyme, sage, and an extravagant amount of toasted and chopped pecans.

With an extravagant amount of features, Nokia bullishly believes it will be the handset that finally breaks 3G into the mass market.

"Congressman Saxton feels an elected public official should choose a car that doesn't cost taxpayers an extravagant amount," said Jeff Sagnip, his spokesman.

"The whole point of taking the council to court was because we thought the fee was excessive - we just wanted Westminster to justify the fee or admit that £30,000 was an extravagant amount".

What troubles me more is the aggressive, belligerently assertive attitude of the umpires, goaded by their contemptible union a union that seeks to make the umpires as visible and important as the players themselves and the ludicrously extravagant amount of time it now takes to play a nine-inning game, which has increased from a little over two hours in my youth to nearly three in 1998.

She is in good company here, as the talk of the festival -- aside from the extravagant violence -- is the extravagant amount of skin exposed and the focus on sex, including sex that doesn't involve just 20-somethings.

Referring to the "extravagant" amount of attention that has been paid by scholars to the story of the tower of Babel – our search for an original, unitary human tongue being its testament – he says "it is far from obvious that their time is well spent".

I also have to make a warm pasta salad at least once a year using a recipe from a Belfast chef that calls for a pound of fusilli, nine ounces of diced smoked salmon and extravagant amounts of chives, finished with a dressing of equal parts olive oil and sour cream with a little lemon juice.

Even if I spend extravagant amounts of money, I will still have extravagant amounts of money".