How to Use conspicuous consumption in a Sentence

conspicuous consumption

noun

• An abrupt drop in the sale of luxury goods after the campaign began suggests a temporary restraint in bribery and conspicuous consumption.
  — Yuen Yuen Ang, Foreign Affairs, 22 June 2021
• Likewise, in the parable of the rich man and Lazarus and the parable of the rich fool, the wealthy are condemned because of their conspicuous consumption and neglect of the poor.
  — David B. Gowler, Fortune, 1 May 2018
• With the rise of business wealth in China came also conspicuous consumption and a new venue for gambling.
  — Raf Casert, USA TODAY, 16 Nov. 2020
• By the time Joe built homes for his sons Murray and Charlie, Livingston had become a town of conspicuous consumption.
  — Andrea Bernstein, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2016
• That leaves sheer conspicuous consumption as the main thrust of this car, and that's just too anachronistic a concept, even for a luxury cruiser, in 1986.
  — Larry Griffin, Car and Driver, 24 Apr. 2023
• And these are not people running in the social circles of the Kardashian clan, who are known for their conspicuous consumption.
  — Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2019
• When the gavel at Christie’s came down, conspicuous consumption had taken a great leap forward.
  — James Atlas, Town & Country, 8 Feb. 2018
• Browne has turned it into a badge of conspicuous consumption.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2023
• If conspicuous consumption isn’t your thing, there’s something for you too.
  — Fortune, 20 Oct. 2017
• Wright and Lobo-Navia are sending a powerful message to those of us who often fall hard for conspicuous consumption.
  — Brooke Bobb, Vogue, 19 Nov. 2018
• This is the Hamptons, after all, where conspicuous consumption is an Olympics-caliber sport.
  — New York Times, 31 Aug. 2019
• From the top to the bottom of the income spectrum, people use conspicuous consumption and other means of enhancing their image to project status.
  — The Economist, 14 June 2018
• But consumers in the United States are far from the only ones navigating small space and conspicuous consumption.
  — Patrick Sisson, Curbed, 27 Mar. 2018
• That attitude is far removed from the conspicuous consumption and raunchy machismo of many reggaeton and Latin hits.
  — New York Times, 3 Mar. 2021
• Nearly a decade on, the ranks of the donju have swelled, revealing a taste for conspicuous consumption that has fueled the growth of coffee shops, sushi restaurants and spas in the North Korean capital.
  — Jonathan Cheng, WSJ, 26 Aug. 2018
• Ocasio-Cortez’s dress offered no overt criticism of conspicuous consumption or of the economics of the fashion industry, whose moguls belong to the .01 per cent.
  — Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 17 Sep. 2021
• Instead, Abramovich became a master of conspicuous consumption, raising the bar for the other oligarchs.
  — Simon Usborne, Town & Country, 15 June 2022
• Nunes notes such conspicuous consumption went up after the Great Recession, too.
  — Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2021
• The status envy induced by conspicuous consumption may play a role.
  — The Economist, 6 June 2019
• Wine, once the height of boomer culture and conspicuous consumption, has lost its cool among young, more frugal and health-conscious potential customers, many of whom prefer cannabis over Cabernet, experts say.
  — Louis Sahagún, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2024
• The conspicuous consumption of resources and the inadvertent beaming of info-waste into space will end.
  — Charley Lineweaver, Discover Magazine, 28 July 2015
• The fruit-forwardness—conspicuous consumption made teasingly literal—is absurd, but also darkly apt: This is decor that, much like the wealthy guests it is meant to delight, does not know when to stop.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 16 Aug. 2021
• As a teenage Reaganite outfitted in a suit and armed with a briefcase, Fox’s Keaton embodied the newfound spirit of conspicuous consumption.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 11 May 2023
• Since the world of Hyowon Group and its ruling family is all about appearances, that includes some conspicuous consumption.
  — Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 11 May 2021
• Like a seven-figure Bored Ape, these body-on-frame behemoths embody a certain brand of conspicuous consumption.
  — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 15 June 2022
• Still, conspicuous consumption appears to be a growing factor in the economics of smartphones.
  — Tripp Mickle, WSJ, 17 Sep. 2017
• On a street lined with high-end stores like Chanel and Canada Goose stood a young woman handing out free coffee to lure people into a storefront that has nothing — or maybe everything — to do with conspicuous consumption.
  — Helene Stapinski, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2023
• In the 1980s, the Ferrari Testarossa was a spectacular supercar symbol of the era’s excess and conspicuous consumption.
  — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 12 May 2021
• Historically, the non–fabulously wealthy who craved the latest in conspicuous consumption had no recourse but to eat their hearts out.
  — Cintra Wilson, The New York Review of Books, 11 Feb. 2020
• During a time of rampant conspicuous consumption, the Prius offered the perfect antidote to gas-guzzling SUVs.
  — Car and Driver, 4 July 2020

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024