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.
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  • 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.
  • It also boasts an unmatched ventilation and antifog system, removable interior cheek pads and a sturdy chinstrap that can be removed to allow cleaning or replacement.
  • Norman took me into his unkempt, barren back garden to show me the only thing which he could boast of - his four fat white rabbits.
  • The town now boasts the Harlequin shopping centre.
  • By the end of their honeymoon the Haskins were only too pleased to find that Multavia did not boast a national airline.
  • Many script kiddies are quickly caught, often because they boast of their hacking exploits or are betrayed by their internet names.
  • He had a swashbuckling posture; but such was his powerful physique and piercing look, it seemed natural rather than boastful or proud. Seminary Boy
  • In love you have patience, kindness, the absence of jealousy, pride and boastfulness.
  • And with billions and billions served helpings of the lardaceous potato strips, it's a sticky moment for JamesSkinner'sJames Skinner's Golden Arches, which last October boasted of its initiative to print nutritional data on its packages to help consumers make informed choices about what to eat. Skinner's McDonald's Comes Clean On Fries' Fat
  • Elizabeth didn't boast a washeteria, which was what they called laundromats here. The Disunited States of America
  • It boasts excellent hotels, fine beaches, possesses every facility for boating and bathing and can offer all the other forms of amusement which a holiday-maker is likely to require. Death of a Delft Blue
  • It boasted of the clean and long-lasting nature of the product.
  • It was adequate though and the Explorer could also boast massive cargo capacity, extensive research facilities and most importantly the ability to serve as a mobile dock for semi-independent ships.
  • Such an institution might boast not only the healthcare equivalent of hot-desking (which, to some extent, already happens) but also, for instance, operating theatres without walls.
  • But this is an idle boast if police are forced to abandon one set of law breakers to chase after another.
  • His company was properly registered, and he boasted several business associates with impeccable reputations.
  • These colonies soon boasted yacht clubs, fox hunts, formal dinners, and elaborate banquets.
  • A very modest man he never boasted of his fine abilities, but helped everybody.
  • But the lives of our saints, independently altogether of the momentous change in human affairs and prospects which they ushered in, have a substantial hold on history, of which neither the classical nor the northern hierology can boast. The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author
  • The Squamscott River Wetlands Component boasts four rare plants: the marsh elder, the stout bulrush, the small spike-rush and the exserted knotweed. Great Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, New Hampshire
  • An award-winning wine cellar boasts over 400 vintage wines, from which they can choose a bottle for dinner.
  • The sun dives deep into the foundations of your chart to give you a calm self-assurance that gets better results than other louder, boastful voices. The Sun
  • But best of all was the pool: where most villas boast pocket-handkerchief paddling pools, here was a pool in which to do solitary laps before breakfast, while staring out over miles of burnt-umber fields. Sleeping with the Finzi-Continis: Sicily's Madonie mountains
  • There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it. Bertrand Russell 
  • Amy boasted that her son was a genius.
  • This year boasts a refreshing mix of the figurative and the conceptional.
  • It is a game that boasts a long and illustrious history in its birthplace of India. Times, Sunday Times
  • About every third property boasted a brand-new chain link fence, erected to corral Cod knows what kind of beast.
  • A boaster and a liar are all one. 
  • Unlike your average male specimen, he did not look proud and boastful when first me, then Riley squealed over his car.
  • Built in Andalusian style, this boasts an institute of thalassotherapy equipped with saunas, swimming pools and massage rooms.
  • This was a city that boasted five-storey apartment blocks. Times, Sunday Times
  • During the national election campaign, Mr. Klein boasted he'd open more private clinics and begin a tax deduction based on income to raise more revenue.
  • The new depot boasts state of the art facilities and a large training area.
  • He came of age during the Depression, arrived in Congress from Massachusetts in 1952 and came to power amid the plenty of the '60s and' 70s (he once boasted that he'd put money into an appropriations bill to study knock-knees). The Last Hurrah For Tip O'neill, 1912-1994
  • For long enough, it was his perhaps his proudest boast.
  • The boy boasted that his bicycle was of the best quality of all the bicycles in the school.
  • Part of this is down to his penchant for boasting about his morning run on social media. Times, Sunday Times
  • She could defend herself - that hadn't been an empty boast.
  • Willoughby's boast of his implacable character was to blame.
  • I don't tell this story to boast of my skills as a stalker or hide builder or to show my stoical ability to endure hours without moving in the pursuit of wildlife.
  • Encouragement and support do they derive from James, in maintaining the "peculiar institution" which they call patriarchal, and boast of as the "corner-stone" of the republic? The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
  • Emma asked Mrs. Elton about her musical abilities, and she was both modest and boastful.
  • It also boasts thermal reflectivity for bonus warmth and as well as a wicking waistband and gusset. The Sun
  • SAMSON - Many around Samson knew Bruce Maloy as their town's comedian, a goodhearted, wiry little jokester who was always boasting about hitting it big someday. News | GT | http://www.gadsdentimes.com
  • It boasts many outbuildings, a guest house, workshop, garages and even air raid bunkers.
  • This is an age when we boast of our emotional intelligence and we claim to feel each other's pain.
  • Its unhurried but sophisticated citizens boast not only high incomes but also high levels of education.
  • To have my name traduced in public; in inns, among the meanest vulgar! to have any little favours that my unguarded heart may have too lightly betrayed me to grant, boasted of there! nay, even to hear that you had been forced to fly from my love! History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
  • I can boast coconut deltoids, pulsating pectorals, bulging biceps and six pack abdominals.
  • Also, we're reluctant to appear boastful. Times, Sunday Times
  • Because Huey Long used to boast, ` I can outpromise even Presidential Ambition: How the Presidents Gained Power, Kept Power, and Got Things Done
  • Regrettably, he resorts to the familiar numbers game when he boasts that fewer than 300 state enterprises currently remain in the public sector.
  • The Buffalo City municipality boasts eco-tourism development and has certain unique features, according to Sam.
  • Both Bruges and Brussels boast museums where you can learn more about the history and production of chocolate.
  • The Filth is a gorgeously well-appointed book, boasting ultramodern design, mad ideas on every page and some of the most eye-poppingly tasty art this side of the Tate.
  • Tins of the sweet boast that it 'clarifies the voice and clears the throat'. Times, Sunday Times
  • A prouder boast would be that it was ‘the most patriotic’.
  • The Central New York region boasts a highly eclectic butter sculpture collection at the Fairgrounds.
  • Families used to boast of their biblical view over the lush valley. Times, Sunday Times
  • The Atlanta Games will boast an "official" scouring pad and timepiece, two official game shows, and three official vehicles: a family car, an import minivan and a luxury sedan.
  • Yet everything about them boasted of their origin in the leafy shires. YELLOW BIRD
  • It was the Boer way of saying "bosh" to our ill-timed boast that the war was over. With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back
  • For centuries it has been inhabited by tribespeople - Afridis, Waziris, Baluchis and many more - each boasting to be more fearsome than the others.
  • Hard to imagine an underrated Ivy, but Cornell's MFA struggles to stay in the top 10 nationally despite boasting the third-best funding scheme in America -- even if you don't consider the fully-funded one-year lectureship virtually all graduates receive. Seth Abramson: The Top 25 Underrated Creative Writing MFA Programs
  • Patrick-street, Dublin -- the lady who used to boast of her "bag of farthin's," and regale herself before each encounter with a pennorth of the "droppin's o 'the cock. Irish Wit and Humor Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell
  • And now he has got the chance to make his boasts come true. The Sun
  • The glass shard of a building makes the dingy three-and five-story buildings next door seem dingier, and the seamy building boasting adult videos and scantily-clad mannequins even seamier. A Sliver Shines Above Midtown
  • You can pass from it into the house without going outside; but, nevertheless, it boasts an entrance door of its own, and a short flight of steps that brings you to a deep well, and a very rustical-looking pump, half hidden by water-plants and savin bushes and tall grasses. La Grenadiere
  • Number 10 is a rabbit warren of corridors and rooms, and boasts perhaps the most famous front door in the world. The Sun
  • The $1575 frame boasts 3 / 2.5 Ti main tubes with 6/4 dropouts, bottom bracket and headtube.
  • Guangxi boasts abundant bauxite mineral resources for the development of aluminum industry with the advantaged superiority.
  • He boasts of weeding old sanctuaries, and uncovering the ground-plans of old temples so that he could rebuild them as they were supposed to be.
  • A heart-shaped molecular donut, the topoisomerase II dimer boasts an electropositive tunnel, the likely passage point for DNA.
  • What it can boast is a plethora, a diaspora, a minestrone of regional cuisines. Jay Weston: Jaywalking in L.A. - News and Gossip of the Restaurant World
  • The Ghanaians are the lowest ranked nation in the group at No. 37, but boast a quality team featuring Chelsea midfielder Michael Essien and Inter Milan star Sulley Muntari. Undefined
  • The Russian leader mocked U.S. businessmen who he said had boasted at last year's Davos meeting of the U.S. economy's fundamental strength and "cloudless" prospects. Russia, China Blame Woes on Capitalism
  • What other industry can boast this and make the world a better place? Times, Sunday Times
  • The collection also boasts a few terracottas on more or less the same scale as the bronzes.
  • Palm-drenched Koh Samui, Thailand's third largest island, boasts the country's only LGBT diving organization. coordinates trips in the calm southern Gulf of Thailand around neighboring Koh Tao ( "Turtle Island") and north to famed Sail Rock, where schools of batfish and giant grouper patrol the 40-foot vertical passage through its granite core and plankton-feeding whale sharks are often sighted. Gayired.com - Gay OnLine Community for Entertainment and Daily News
  • The casting directors all like to boast that they have a very sensitive radar for people who just want the celebrity of it.
  • In a statement, they said, They react in fury and menace to our intention to show the film and have boasted that their threats of aggressive demonstrations prevented its previous showing in the Mother of Parliaments. Archive 2009-02-01
  • Who would have suggested that in tine of peace we can sing "God Save the King" and boast of our British citizenship and send our trade across the seas under the protection of the British navy and do nothing in time of war? Imperial Reorganization
  • Tired of his boasting, his boss called his bluff.
  • And when I had it customized, I could boast I was wearing something that was made-to-measure - twice.
  • Moreover, as a Jew living in a town that declared itself the buckle of the Bible Belt (Memphis boasted more churches than gas stations), I was always aware of my outsider status.
  • Analysts say Golkar boasts the most qualified candidates and has a strong foothold throughout Indonesia.
  • What other industry can boast this and make the world a better place? Times, Sunday Times
  • When the lad grew big enough to handle the small-sized plasher the old man took him as partner, and he boasts about the little fellow's cleverness. The Romance of the Coast
  • Mumbai already boasts a nascent advertising industry and China made it into the top 10 countries for patent applications last year.
  • This was a city that boasted five-storey apartment blocks. Times, Sunday Times
  • It boasts an ideal cool climate for the grape, as bodies of water near the vineyards keep temperatures moderate.
  • The town boasted three flour mills, a bakery, a tannery, several breweries, shops and rows and rows of little cottages.
  • She peered through the glass walls of the vivarium at over a dozen intertwined snakes, boasting all sorts of exotic colors and markings. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Shock Treatment
  • For years his proudest boast has been that while others have criticised his growth forecasts, he has ended up having the last laugh.
  • The Santa Clara Valley boasted great weather, outdoor activities, good schools, and sought-after real estate -- the "California Dream.
  • It was an unlikely boast from the fair-skinned figure with the sideburns and thinning hair.
  • My last story of boasters and foolish acts has just happened yesterday.
  • The place has one of the longer bars in York, boasting beers, bottles and spirits of all descriptions.
  • Next stop was Florence, and our base was the Anglo American, a plush hotel boasting Tolstoy among its former guests.
  • Speak little of your ill luck and boast not of your good luck. 
  • The reason can perhaps be found in the fact that company law as an academic discipline boasts no long and distinguished pedigree.
  • The new Pavilion boasted great stucco arches and curvilinear parapets on each of its four facades and three-story towers at the corners.
  • Only Delhi can boast an extensive metro-rail network.
  • It was the more provoking, as Bunce himself could write his name legibly, and one of those three doubting souls had for years boasted of like power, and possessed, indeed, a Bible, in which he was proud to show his name written by himself some thirty years ago -- "Job Skulpit;" but it was thought that Job Skulpit, having forgotten his scholarship, on that account recoiled from the petition, and that the other doubters would follow as he led them. The Warden
  • The hotel has suites that boast roof terraces, kitchens and lounges so you can entertain in your home-from-home. The Sun
  • By the end of their honeymoon the Haskins were only too pleased to find that Multavia did not boast a national airline.
  • Niko's boasts an enormous menu with everything from roasted fish, to brick-oven pizzas.
  • By 1875 Atchison could boast of a railroad bridge spanning the Missouri, a mechanical marvel that turned in order to open.
  • Although Patriots capture headlines and boast of a massive underground movement, they are so amorphous that counting them is guesswork.
  • Olivia Rojo boasts more than two decades of classical dance training.
  • Encouragement and support do they derive from James, in maintaining the "peculiar institution" whence they derived their wealth, which they call patriarchal, and boast of as the "corner-stone" of the republic? The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
  • Boasting all-round ability at various sports she mentioned at Huntington School, where she was a pupil, that she fancied trying to get a game of golf.
  • America in the 30s boasted an active and unembarrassed left.
  • His boast that he could drink ten pints of beer impressed nobody.
  • He was a small man, not ill-made by Nature, but reduced to unnatural tenuity by dissipation-a corporeal attribute of which he was apt to boast, as it enabled him, as he said, to put himself up at 7st 7lb without any ‘d — — nonsense of not eating and drinking’. Doctor Thorne
  • Lindisfarne became a place of pilgrimage during the priory's ‘golden age’ in the seventh century and all the tourism literature boasts it has remained so ever since.
  • Siegemaster was fourth in the 3m novices 'hurdle at last season's Festival and is trained by a shrewdie, Dessie Hughes, who boasts a fine record at the meeting. Undefined
  • So it could boast wide streets and modest palazzi of Italianate design. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
  • In 2000 she boasted a paper fortune of £40 million but after the company's share price crashed, that was cut to £9 million.
  • The show does not boast the extravagant production values of many West End musicals.
  • Every salesman boasts of his own wares. 
  • The combined system, running under Linux, boasts peak performance of four teraflops.
  • Flowers are blooming weeks earlier than usual with Castle Howard boasting daffodils, snowdrops, rhododendrons, azaleas and crocuses.
  • I can sympathize with her aggravation with being around boasting parents.
  • The area boasts the site of the 11 th-century Battle of Cruden, which saw King Malcolm defend Scotland from Viking invaders.
  • There are nearly 200 knights, lords, and their ladies milling about, conversing, boasting, laughing.
  • And there's Bill Lee, a.k.a. "Spaceman," an iconoclastic cult hero to college-age Boston fans in the late '70s, a quintessentially flaky southpaw who once boasted of sprinkling marijuana on his breakfast cereal -- before the buttoned-down Red Sox brass exiled him to the Montreal Expos, in whose uniform he is (sadly) pictured in the card collection. FOUND: Lots and lots of baseball cards
  • He has two crucial weapons, the high cross-court lob and the attacking boast.
  • But he and his advisers rightly think his best sales point is his image as an antipolitical politician, a country doctor turned governor who boasts of "my directness and my unwillingness to bend" as he bluntly diagnoses all the ills of American life. There's A Chill In The Air
  • During the campaign, he made a ridiculous boast that 30 million new jobs would be created if he won the election.
  • He that boasts of his knowledge proclaims his ignorance. 
  • Set within a trendy facility, the interior boasts modern furnishings and minimalist, stylish furniture - absolutely no clutter.
  • I am sick and tired of hearing its members' boasts, which are based on a fundamental fallacy that they believe in one law for all.
  • His proudest boast as a businessman was undoubtedly that he published the first picture postcard of York in 1893.
  • Boasting savagely violent battle scenes and an adrenaline fueled chase through the breathtaking Scottish highlands, CENTURION is set during the war between Roman soldiers and Pict tribesmen during the 2nd century Roman conquest of Britain. Neil Marshall’s CENTURION to Stand Guard This Summer – Collider.com
  • These guys don't brag and boast about who they are, they go in quiet and come out with the last laugh. Times, Sunday Times
  • Sidney Wells" is about a cold-hearted serial killer who boasts about what he's done when the cops finally come calling. Michael Giltz: Music: Richard Thompson at Town Hall
  • The label boasted of wine "crafted with handpicked grapes" offering "dark fruit aromas and flavours of black cherry and ripe plum". Spirits exports on the rocks, but vodka demand still stiff
  • The phones boast a 1.3 megapixels camera, 8x zoom and flash.
  • It was his proud boast that he could master any mechanical operation simply by studying how others did it. DEVASTATING EDEN: The Search for Utopia in America
  • On the plus side, Catch Me at the Neil Simon, boasts two incredibly entertaining leads - a sensational Aaron Tveit as the charismatic Frank, and the always superb Norbert Leo Butz as Carl Hannraty, the crumply married-to-the job FBI agent who ultimately catches him. Fern Siegel: Stage Door: Catch Me If You Can, Peter and the Starcatcher, Urge For Going
  • That's a 100% copper-bottomed pure common sense policy, and Labour are boasting they're against it?
  • Until now his only culinary boast has been that he makes a mean shepherd's pie. Times, Sunday Times
  • It can boast better views than many of the lakeside palace hotels.
  • Burmese men here boast of taking Hui mistresses and wives.
  • A Soccerdome website boasts that all the pitches are made of ‘Field Turf’ synthetic pitches which are just like real grass but do not cause friction burns.
  • The scowl of the opposing parties, the blanched cheeks, the knit brows, and the grinding teeth, not pretermitting the deadly gleams that shoot from their kindled eyes, are ornaments which a plain battle between factions cannot boast, but which, notwithstanding, are very suitable to the fierce and gloomy silence of that premeditated vengeance which burns with such intensity in the heart, and scorches up the vitals into such a thirst for blood. The Ned M'Keown Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three
  • Antiquity to angling is like social position to the gentleman:I would rather prove myself a gentleman, by being learned and humble, valiant and inoffensive, virtuous and communicable, than by any fond ostentation of riches, or, wanting those virtues myself, boast that these were in my ancestors; and yet I grant, that where a noble and ancient descent and such merit meet in any man, it is a double dignification of that person. . . The ideal of the gentleman
  • On coming ashore their crews came across another English crew who boasted about their unusually high wages. Ambassadors: From Ancient Greece to the Nation State
  • Only yesterday, sleeveless tops and short frivolous skirts were being boasted by Rome's young and trendies.
  • Read in studio Now, we've all heard of the tyre company that boasts that it's fitters are fastest.
  • 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)
  • The house is full of period character and boasts stunning views. The Sun
  • When people meet me and call me by my real name, I don’t appreciate it. I feel as if they are boasting that they know my real name (Sampooran Singh Kalra). Gulzar 
  • It also boasts a sauna, massage rooms, a hydrotherapy pool, weight room, squash, and basketball courts and a cafeteria for the players.
  • No fewer than one in five homes in the United Kingdom now boasts an Activity Bear.
  • The editor refused to print the word eatery, for restaurant, for example, or boast for have or don for wear or penned for wrote or queried for asked. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
  • The museum boasts an unrivalled collection of French porcelain.
  • October last year, Radio 2 broadcast a show featuring Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross in which they rang actor Andrew Sachs and left messages on his ansafone which boasted that Brand had slept with the Fawlty Towers vet's granddaughter, … The Register
  • There were no trophies about the house, no framed photos, no boastful talk. Times, Sunday Times
  • The series boasts a stellar ensemble cast. The Sun
  • With Sony, Nikon, and Canon boasting massive pixel resolutions, huge memory stores, and more compact yet laser precise lenses, it's no wonder that digital photography is outstepping SLR in interest and sales increases.
  • He thought that it was something of which he could justifiably boast.
  • The brother's got the boastful swagger of your favorite rapper, the entrepreneurial instincts of a street hustler and a pen as swift as his tongue is sharp.
  • Known for opulence,the MSC Fantasia boasts the exclusive MSC yacht club featuring a staircase of Swarovski crystals as well as a private lounge with transparent ceilings.
  • Not that adequate hands prove effective intelli - gence; on Earth, not only simians but a number of reptiles and amphibia boast as much, even if man has the best, and man's apish ancestors were as well-equipped in this respect as we are today. Trader To The Stars
  • When challenged by the racist right, Obama pirouetted to the right in true Clintonian fashion, boasting that his health care "reform" explicitly excludes undocumented immigrants, unlike the universal health care programs in place in most other economically advanced nations. Andy Thayer: May Day Immigration March Offers Opportunity to Push Back Against Arizona
  • For all that Netanyahu's innate arrogance and self-aggrandisement was laid bare by the contents of the nine-year-old recording, the collective shrugging of shoulders implies that few expected anything else from a man who has been boasting of his own political prowess throughout his tumultuous career. Why Binyamin Netanyahu tape is no real shocker
  • Not many places can boast being both a centre of historic importance and outstanding natural beauty.
  • Although the mango tree did not originate in this part of the world, St Lucia now boasts many varieties.
  • And the rooms' en-suites boast anti-mist mirrors and vanity basins the size of horse troughs.
  • Rich in Native American and pioneer history, the Appalachian Highlands boast an amazing plant diversity - from laurel to flowering dogwood - and more than 200 different kinds of birds.
  • Humanity, there is nothing left for you to boast of , for your boasting and hope lie in putting to death all that is your own and seeking the future life that is in Christ.
  • Few cities today can boast a riverside setting of comparable historic value and beauty. The Sun
  • For one, he's supposedly been caught boasting about non-existent software before.
  • Nor was this an empty boast.
  • The document also boasts that it is available in large print or an audio format for those with sight problems. The Sun
  • The thing was soft, almost Eggolike in consistency, boasting the kind of crispiness usually associated with an empanada left in the fridge for a week. Obsessions: Belgian waffles, the beginning
  • Many inclines around the country boast some type of superlative; this one says they are the steepest, and rightly so.
  • Indeed the wide diffusion of letters in the States, that favourite theme for boasting and bragging over the unenlightened and analphabetic Old World, has tended only to exaggerate the defective and disagreeable side of a national character lacking geniality and bristling with prickly individuality. Arabian nights. English
  • He boasted that he could run very fast.
  • Few castles can boast the historic pedigree of Cathcart, which dates back to the days of Sir Alan Cathcart, a knight who served with Robert the Bruce.
  • Boasting four fire buttons, plus a fairly flimsy throttle control, this too has plenty of features.
  • Applied to Drake the word connoted animosity pure and simple, animosity suddenly conceived too, for it was not a week since Mallinson had been boasting of his friendship with the man. The Philanderers
  • That year, a letter to the Newport Mercury, authored by “Frugality,” continued the redefinition of American freedom as self-denial: “We may talk and boast of liberty; but after all, the industrious and frugal only will be free.” A Renegade History of the United States
  • But Suong also smiled tolerantly when the others boasted to us and never said a word to contradict them. The Village
  • In Spanish, Senora Montoya invited me into her classroom, boasting about my superior abilities to conjugate verbs in the imperfect tense the quickest in the class.
  • -- I this evening boasted, that although I did not write what is called stenography, or short-hand, in appropriated characters devised for the purpose, I had a method of my own of writing half words, and leaving out some altogether so as yet to keep the substance and language of any discourse which I had heard so much in view, that I could give it very completely soon after I had taken it down. Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood
  • Jersey Parade also boasted specialist shops, such as Cross, where you could order coffee blended to your own taste, plus an ironmonger and a garden supplies store.
  • It also boasts the kind of ending that encourages an ovation from an enthusiastic audience.

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