PROFUSION in a Sentence

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Everywhere in the latter the visitors were struck with the way in which poverty went with glittering, fashionable profusion.

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 Meanings and Examples of PROFUSION
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
profusion
 n.  overabundance; lavish or unrestrained expense
Classic Sentence: (28 in 2 pages)
1  When the helmet was removed, the well-formed, yet sun-burnt features of a young man of twenty-five were seen, amidst a profusion of short fair hair.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
2  He is vain, Isaac, and he is covetous; at least he needs money to supply his profusion.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
3  As she opened, and saw its length, she prepared herself for a minute detail of happiness and a profusion of love and praise towards the fortunate creature who was now mistress of his fate.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
4  Sheep-marks there were in profusion, and at one place, some miles down, cows had left their tracks.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL
5  Hams in wine, pressed duck, pate de foie gras, rare fruits in and out of season, were spread in profusion.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
6  Madame coquetted with him in the most captivating and naive manner, with eyes, gestures, and a profusion of compliments, till the Colonel's old head felt thirty years younger on his padded shoulders.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXIII
7  Rich plumes nodded above his head; wampum, gorgets, bracelets, and medals, adorned his person in profusion; though his dull eye and vacant lineaments too strongly contradicted the idle tale of pride they would convey.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 33
8  He wore a profusion of ribbons on his garment, and gold lace on his hat, which was also encircled by a gold chain, and surmounted with a feather.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XXI. THE NEW ENGLAND HOLIDAY
9  To see Miss Mowcher standing over him, looking at his rich profusion of brown hair through a large round magnifying glass, which she took out of her pocket, was a most amazing spectacle.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 22. SOME OLD SCENES, AND SOME NEW PEOPLE
10  His eyebrows were very massive, almost meeting over the nose, and with bushy hair that seemed to curl in its own profusion.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
11  Everywhere in the latter the visitors were struck with the way in which poverty went with glittering, fashionable profusion.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
12  She was pale and fair, with long curls falling in profusion over her shoulders, had large, blue, languishing eyes, rosy lips, and hands of alabaster.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 1 THE THREE PRESENTS OF D'ARTAGNAN THE ELDER
13  He inclined his head, closed his eyes, and, licking his lips profusely, began to speak with the voice of the hotel keeper.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
14  At the washstand a convulsion seized him within; and, clasping his cold forehead wildly, he vomited profusely in agony.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
15  Its supports were of silver gilt, beautifully chased, and profusely set with enamelled and jewelled medallions.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11
Example Sentence:
1  Freddy was so overwhelmed by the profusion of choices on the menu that he knocked over his wine glass and soaked his host.
2  Water was jetting profusely from the pipe.
3  Help mom handle the profuse bleeding from her sweet little toddler's head.