Sentence for vanity | Use vanity in a sentence

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• He bursts with vanity. (10)
• The vanity of an artist! (2)
• She has inflamed his vanity. (10)
• What will you think of my vanity? (4)
• His wife had once wounded his vanity. (10)
• But vanity, not love, has been my folly. (4)
• He was above jealousy; he was above vanity. (10)
• He nourished her fainting spirit upon vanity. (10)
• The first spring of a Frenchman comes of vanity. (10)
• Vanity has wrecked me, in this world and the next. (10)
• Men with their vanity wounded may discover wonders! (22)
• Perhaps: you begin to perceive that vanity governs me. (10)
• Vanity and judgement led De Craye to guess the former. (10)
• They feel the pinch in their interests and their vanity. (10)
• His vanity was, to be thought a miser, envied as a miser. (22)
• It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. (4)
• But to me, I confess, it is all vanity and vexation of spirit. (14)
• Who are not fools to beset spinning if we choose to whip them with their vanity! (10)
• The modest are the most easily intoxicated when they sip at vanity. (10)
• I tried to revenge myself for the hurt your harmless hoax did my vanity. (9)
• She stumbled on the helpless word in a hasty effort to cloak her vanity. (10)
• In vanity, therefore, she gained but little; her chief profit was in wonder. (4)
• Trunks replace chairs, and mirrors are of a dimension to discourage vanity. (21)
• It is a grief to me to know that she is sordid: it hurts my vanity the more. (10)
• He had expected romance, and had met merchandize, and his vanity was offended. (10)
• He paused, waving his hand to signify the vanity of the more that might be said. (10)
• Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. (4)
• Even if it hurt my vanity, I should be happy to confess my error: I was utterly out. (10)
• Soames saw that his suggestion had touched some unintelligible point of personal vanity. (8)
• He had never had any personal vanity, and there was no consciousness in his good looks now. (9)
• He had not much vanity to trouble him, and passion was quiet, so his task was not gigantic. (10)
• Mrs. Lapham faltered between her lingering resentment and the appeals of her flattered vanity. (9)
• His deep love for him had well-nigh shaken loose from wounded pride and more tenacious vanity. (10)
• To the public, neither the vanity nor the purse of the author is of the slightest consequence. (16)
• The truth is, I fancied myself so exceedingly penetrating, and it was my vanity looking in a glass. (10)
• In my situation, it would have been the extreme of vanity to be forming expectations on Mr. Crawford. (4)
• Nevertheless, his vanity was hurt when he saw she was sincere, and he listened to her, a moody being. (10)
• The flattery of it touched her fancy, and not her vanity; she had very little vanity. (9)
• She did not mean, however, to derive much more from it to gratify her vanity, than Mary might have allowed. (4)
• It touched and called up great vanity in his breast, and not till then could he placably confront the look. (10)
• He had said the word: and the first vanity of your born eccentric is, that he shall be taken for infallible. (10)
• You know his vanity to be a military quite as much as a naval commander like the Greeks and Romans, he says. (10)
• And no chef, no poet, and no tailor is so puffed up with creative vanity as your common bourgeois progenitor. (12)
• There is so much of gratitude or vanity in almost every attachment, that it is not safe to leave any to itself. (4)
• I say to myself you should know me, at least; and if I am guilty of a piece of vanity, you should know that also. (10)
• This conjecture flattered her vanity and reconciled her to the step which she had taken and already began to regret. (5)
• And am I not now enduring those retributive dumps which ever follow such sinful exaltations, the Erynnyes of Vanity? (14)
• The thought that Fiorsen should have picked her out of all that audience for remembrance subtly flattered her vanity. (8)
• I laugh at them; but in my laughter there is a little rebellion of my vanity and a little fear of withering and fading. (12)
• He asked me about myself, and my name, and its Welsh origin, and seemed to find the vanity I had in this harmless enough. (9)
• He tested his feelings, and found that it was not hurt vanity that he was suffering from: it was really wounded affection. (9)
• So, though love was strong, and was moving him to a straightforward course, the last tug of vanity drew him still aslant. (10)
• At this moment I remembered I had brought with me my cane, which, from a perhaps pardonable vanity, I was fond of parading. (6)
• A charming congratulatory smile was addressed to him, and a shake of the head of tender reproach irresistible to his vanity. (10)
• As the General drained his glass, he beamed with satisfaction; the attention paid his bride tickled the vanity of his nature. (18)
• It was a struggle between propriety and vanity; but vanity got the better, and then Elizabeth was happy again. (4)
• Major Waring, how many a woman in my place would attribute your relentless condemnation of her to injured vanity or vengeance? (22)
• And here, I fear, I must acknowledge, in the honesty of these confessional details, that vanity had also its share in the decision. (6)
• Ambition and vanity, as well as discretion, play a restraining part here; they play it, even though there be no provocation to danger. (16)
• His vanity, when threatening to bleed to the death, would not be civil to the surgeon before the second or third dressing of his wound. (10)
• Merthyr saw that it was not vanity, but honour; for Carlo stood pledged to lead a forlorn enterprise, the ripeness of his own scheming. (10)
• Good hope sustains you; weariness does not overwhelm you; in isolation you see no charms for vanity; personal pride is greatly moderated. (10)
• He was entangled by his own vanity, with as little excuse of love as possible, and without the smallest inconstancy of mind towards her cousin. (4)
• The bright plumes Of crested vanity shed graceful nods: Transcendent in her foundries, Arts and looms, Had France to fear the vengeance of the Gods? (10)
• The gentleman had grown restless at covert congratulations, hollow to his knowledge, however much caressing vanity, and therefore secretly a wound to it. (10)

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