Vanity used in a sentence

Vanity in a sentence as a noun

The best case scenario is that they get bought out and operated as a vanity project by a deep-pocketed patron, the way a lot of magazines are.

That a lot of startups are a vanity project of one of the founders and the founder doesn't have the modesty to actually sell to users/potential employees.

Completely unegotistical and free of vanity, she never claimed anything for herself, but promoted the works of her students above all.

[...]The whole trick to athletic training and this is true for everybody from bodybuilders to marathoners to noncompetitive athletes just in it for health, or even vanity is timing each subsequent workout so it hits the middle of that so-called supercompensation peak, when a muscle has already bounced back even stronger than before but hasnt yet returned to baseline.

I wish someone would make a serious successor to SimCity - an actual simulator that modeled theories from the field of urban planning and allowed people to experiment with different layouts, policies, etc. This would be a very different piece of software from the vanity building placing games on the market today, and something much more in line with Will Wright's original vision.