How to Use showboat in a Sentence

showboat

noun

• The fans like him, but the other players think he's a showboat.
• The city owns the showboat and does not fly a confederate flag.
  — David Bailey, Detroit Free Press, 17 Aug. 2017
• But a performance — even one as showboat-y as this — does not a movie make.
  — Michael O'Sullivan, The Denver Post, 27 Jan. 2017
• Yes, Weegee wasn’t only a showboat but a man with an eye for black humor.
  — Sarah Boxer, New York Times, 1 June 2018
• To be sure, for Donald Trump to call anyone a showboat is pretty rich, but . .
  — vanityfair.com, 8 June 2017
• To be sure, Newton’s showboat style puts some off – and his looks are not ones that most people can, or should try to, pull off.
  — Cristina Bolling, charlotteobserver, 18 July 2017
• Rickles, ever the showboat, used to roast De Niro on a daily basis on the set, which would always make the crew laugh.
  — Yohana Desta, HWD, 25 Sep. 2017
• His failed showboat dunk from early in the season was reason enough to get some dunking lessons.
  — Andrew Joseph, USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2017
• Metcalfe said Barrera at a young age had a tendency to show a lazy streak or showboat.
  — Shawn McFarland, courant.com, 4 Oct. 2020
• It was viewed as a showboat move by some, but when the bill passed, members of Congress and their staffs recognized Marler.
  — Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2020
• Beyond the showboat rib, the menu brought both surprises and solid standouts.
  — Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 10 June 2021
• These rough-hewn showboats of the log drive are put together at the upper end of the river and follow the riverjacks downstream—tying up along the bank each night.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 16 Feb. 2019
• Then there's all the eye rolling over what a self-aggrandizing showboat Cheney is being.
  — Frank Bruni New York Times, Star Tribune, 10 May 2021
• Despite the game being stopped, Curry continued towards the basket to throw down a showboat dunk just for fun.
  — Andrew Joseph, USA TODAY, 26 Oct. 2017
• In 2000, the showboat was destroyed by fire during a renovation project.
  — Josh Verges, Twin Cities, 16 Sep. 2019
• Tammy Faye, meanwhile, is a vivacious believer who falls in love with Jim and is happy to hitch herself to the choo-choo train of his showboat faith.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 12 Sep. 2021
• A full 16 years and a world removed from the day the American snowboardcross racer gave away the gold medal with a showboat move near the finish line, Jacobellis rode hard to the end and won it.
  — Eddie Pells and Pat Graham, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Feb. 2022
• And the Omura’s keeps a relatively low profile compared to showboats like humpbacks, which make eye-catching leaps out of the water.
  — National Geographic, 10 Feb. 2016
• And the Omura’s keeps a relatively low profile compared to showboats like humpbacks, which make eye-catching leaps out of the water.
  — National Geographic, 10 Feb. 2016
• But Trump supporters see Comey as a grandstanding showboat who politicized the Russia probe -- a total nut job.
  — The Tylt, cleveland.com, 19 May 2017
• For an actor, there’s an obvious showboat appeal to playing a serious out-of-control drunk.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 25 Mar. 2022
• Marian is the opposite of a showboat, but Foster dims her radiance more than is necessary.
  — Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2022
• That would be the bellowing showboat Khalif, who spews venom into the faces of stone-faced police officers in public, knowing they are prohibited from even twitching.
  — Stu Bykofsky, Philly.com, 28 Aug. 2017
• The only thing that outstaged Cruise's showboat helicopter entrance was that magnificent hair – entirely brown and bouncy.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 3 July 2022
• It's been a story of redemption for Jacobellis, who infamously won an Olympic silver in 2006 after throwing away her lead while attempting to showboat.
  — Julia Hollingsworth, CNN, 12 Feb. 2022
• Pogba is undoubtedly a magnificent player but does love to showboat.
  — SI.com, 13 Sep. 2017
• While the Democratic House anguished over articles of impeachment and wasted time on showboat-y oversight hearings, Trump could lament their obstruction and radicalism.
  — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 31 July 2018
• Mank is no documentary but a semifactual yarn that burnishes the legend of the showboat, nasty wit, and habitual roisterer who wrote Citizen Kane.
  — Carl Rollyson, The New York Review of Books, 5 Jan. 2021
• There are no showboat solos, but there are plenty of piano phrases that are by turns handsome and pretty as the set becomes an entertaining celebration of a most accomplished accompanist.
  — Steven Wine, Star Tribune, 12 Aug. 2020
• Trump and his supporters see Comey as a political showboat who was obstructing his presidency, while the left are starting to see Comey as a political outsider who fell victim to obstruction of justice.
  — The Tylt, AL.com, 19 May 2017

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024