| 1. | This gaudy relationship did him little good at school. - from Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 2. | Let's have one other gaudy night. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 3. | The old personal charm was still there under this new gaudy manner. - from Dubliners by James Joyce |
| 4. | And thus were produced a multitude of gaudy and fantastic appearances. - from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe |
| 5. | And only herald to the gaudy spring. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 6. | Nip not the gaudy blossoms of your love. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 7. | There whelm'd with waves the gaudy warrior lie. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 8. | About half-past eight I passed by an absurd little theatre, with great flaring gas-jets and gaudy play-bills. - from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde |
| 9. | Roomy box-stalls had been carpeted deep with clean straw, curtained off with gaudy bed-quilts, and converted into cozy sleeping apartments. - from The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Various |