[
UK
/bˈəʊst/
]
[ US /ˈboʊst/ ]
[ US /ˈboʊst/ ]
VERB
- show off
-
wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner
she was sporting a new hat
NOUN
- speaking of yourself in superlatives
How To Use boast In A Sentence
- A couple of phone calls, arranged by a deep-sea diver I came to know while working on a story on the Miskito Coast of Nicaragua, led me to an alternately boastful and paranoidly surreptitious man named Steve. The Lampshade
- (Applause) Without boasting, without any kind of immodesty, that is how we Cuban revolutionaries understand our internationalist duty. TRICONTINENTAL CONFERENCE
- Loman is a rather unpleasant figure throughout much of the play, a boastful blowhard, a bully, a coward.
- The Trabant, for example, boasts textile floor covering and a two-tone horn.
- That's no mean boast, since there's a surfeit of super-featherweight talent around.
- Like Flaubert, Daudet was a syphilitic, boasting unchivalrously that he'd caught the disease from ‘a lady from the top drawer’.
- The capital of France boasts every regional specialty, cheese and wine the country has to offer.
- Following this intensive study carried out over a number of years it was discovered that Carlow boasts the tallest broadleaf in Ireland.
- The Zornozas boast an escutcheon which is embellished with a band, a number of wolves, and a legend whose import I do not recall. Youth and Egolatry
- The town boasts a world-famous art gallery.