[ UK /bˈə‍ʊst/ ]
[ US /ˈboʊst/ ]
VERB
  1. show off
  2. wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner
    she was sporting a new hat
NOUN
  1. speaking of yourself in superlatives
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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.
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