shows off

present tense third-person singular of show off

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of shows off Los Angeles Rams wide receiver Davante Adams shows off some Taco Bell goodies. Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 9 Sep. 2025 Next to the arm, an ankle — where Umansky is tagged — shows off a tattoo with four thin black lines. Emy Lacroix, People.com, 8 Sep. 2025 This garden shows off its autumnal hues as does the Lower Woodland Garden with its gentian trees. Jeanine Barone, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025 The vehicle has been completely restored, and really shows off the Verde Acquamarina paint. Keenan Thompson, USA Today, 31 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shows off
Verb
  • Separately, the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex also displays the hatches from the Apollo 1 command module that prevented three astronauts from escaping a fire in the capsule during a 1967 test on the launch pad.
    Robert Pearlman, ArsTechnica, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The humanoid displays visual recognition capabilities during this instance, reacting to a wave by waving back and performing human-like locomotion by imitating humans.
    Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 15 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • These processes follow the solar cycle, an 11-year cycle of increasing and decreasing activity on the sun when the sun's magnetic field exhibits a full magnetic reversal.
    Ryan French, Space.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • In contrast, Canada exhibits a much more balanced diplomatic exchange.
    Collin J. Meisel, The Conversation, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The Other Side of the Contest Award shows focus on who wins, but every contest has another side.
    Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The trend shows that attackers can leverage emerging AI during the hacking process, including attack scenario planning, malware development, building their tools and to impersonate job recruiters, said Mun Chong-hyun, director at Genians.
    Nino Paoli, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Hayley then flashes a strip of sonogram photos at the camera as the couple smiles and sways in the sunlight.
    Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The film begins with a flashback scene to the beginning of the rage virus, then flashes forward 28 years to an isolated island near the Scottish Highlands, where its inhabitants are isolated from the zombie-like creatures that roam the mainland.
    Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • And at least in the short-term, if the Fed unveils a jumbo cut, Crane would expect money market assets to go up for the same comparative reason.
    Eric Rosenbaum, CNBC, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Forbes today unveils its 44th annual Forbes 400 list, the definitive ranking of the wealthiest Americans.
    Forbes Press Releases, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025

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“Shows off.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shows%20off. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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