VANITY in a Sentence

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For VANITY, below is one of 94 sentences:
It would have pleased her to think that he made these trips to see her, but even her abnormal vanity refused to believe this.

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 Meanings and Examples of VANITY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
vanity
 n.  quality or state of being vain; emptiness; feelings of excessive pride; conceit
Classic Sentence: (87 in 6 pages)
1  That was a neat way of smoothing a man's vanity and yet keeping him on the string, and Charles rose to it as though such bait were new and he the first to swallow it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
2  He had never once crossed the borders of friendliness with her and, when she thought of this fresh anger rose, the anger of hurt pride and feminine vanity.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
3  Mostly it had been compounded out of vanity and complacent confidence in her own charms.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
4  An adult emotion was being born, stronger than her vanity or her willful selfishness.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
5  Women knew that a land where men were contented, uncontradicted and safe in possession of unpunctured vanity was likely to be a very pleasant place for women to live.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
6  It would have pleased her to think that he made these trips to see her, but even her abnormal vanity refused to believe this.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
7  Had he exploded with rage and injured vanity or upbraided her, as other men would have done, she could have handled him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
8  His heart was sore and bewildered at Suellen's conduct and his vanity, the shy, touchy vanity of a middle-aged bachelor who knows himself to be unattractive to women, was deeply wounded.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
9  His masculine vanity would not permit such a thought to stay long in his mind.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
10  There was some satisfaction to her wounded vanity in the hurt look on Melanie's face.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
11  Most timidities have such secret compensations, and Miss Bart was discerning enough to know that the inner vanity is generally in proportion to the outer self-depreciation.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
12  But his greeting expressed no more than the satisfaction which every pretty woman expects to see reflected in masculine eyes; and the discovery, if distasteful to her vanity, was reassuring to her nerves.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
13  Her vanity was stung by the sight of his unscathed smile.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
14  It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 11
15  She had never before suspected the mixture of insatiable curiosity and contemptuous freedom with which she and her kind were discussed in this underworld of toilers who lived on their vanity and self-indulgence.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
Example Sentence:
1  Meanwhile, greed and vanity, using lies and fear, will once again manipulate ignorance and resentment.
2  It gratified all the vicious vanity that was in him; and so, instead of winning him, it only "set him up" the more and made him the more diligent to avoid betraying that he knew she was about.
3  As for the painters who commanded these extraordinary prices, they rivaled each other in ostentation and vanity.
4  Faking understanding of a foreign language is a common vanity.
5  We prefer to be seen with each other, instead of looking at each other: the back of selfie is vanity.
6  He was too puffed up with his own importance, too blinded by vanity to accept their verdict on him.
7  Politics is too often concerned only with the personal vanities of politicians.