boast

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
• That the people shall be destroyed with the sword: I will cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven, the valley of idolatry, for the gods of the Syrians were gods of the valleys (1 Kings xx. 23), were worshipped in valleys; as the idols of Israel were worshipped on the hills; him also that holdeth the sceptre of power, some petty king or other that used to boast of the sceptre he held from Beth-Eden, the house of pleasure. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
• (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