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boasting

[ UK /bˈə‍ʊstɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈboʊstɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. speaking of yourself in superlatives

How To Use boasting In A Sentence

  • (Applause) Without boasting, without any kind of immodesty, that is how we Cuban revolutionaries understand our internationalist duty. TRICONTINENTAL CONFERENCE
  • Like Flaubert, Daudet was a syphilitic, boasting unchivalrously that he'd caught the disease from ‘a lady from the top drawer’.
  • Part of this is down to his penchant for boasting about his morning run on social media. Times, Sunday Times
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • Tired of his boasting, his boss called his bluff.
  • 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
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