How to Use conspicuous consumption in a Sentence

conspicuous consumption

noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • With the rise of business wealth in China came also conspicuous consumption and a new venue for gambling.
    — NBC News, 15 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • What was true then for the nouveau riche is true now for authoritarian countries: hosting and succeeding in the Olympic Games are textbook acts of conspicuous consumption.
    — Dawn Brancati, Foreign Affairs, 25 Mar. 2021
  • Vance’s critique of conspicuous consumption among the poor is something everyone should consider.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2024

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