Sentence examples for putting on airs from inspiring English sources

Putting on airs was despised after independence -- even for the new republic's grandest institutions.

The phrase suggested a style that was proudly ghetto and proudly élite ("putting on airs").

He also deterred his guards from "putting on airs and accepting privileges" in their unique position as the Chairman's closest attendants.

It was a world the movie public didn't share, and it was already absurd in American movies — the way valets and effete English butlers and the high-toned Americans putting on airs who kept them were absurd.

IN the late 1950s, I had an aunt who was widely regarded as putting on airs, and who displayed in her guest bathroom a pair of those iconic Holiday Inn towels with the big green stripes.

And would any New Yorker, even one putting on airs like Trench's friend Mr. Cokane (played by Mr. Simmons), wear a cravat and urge others to be gentlemen?

We're not ones to put on airs, though.

Hinsch's never put on airs like that.

"Don't put on airs," said Mr. Fassler, a former inmate.

Even if he'd wanted to put on airs, of course, it would've been hard.

I never saw her put on airs and graces, nor speak down to anyone.