How To Use Boasting In A Sentence
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(Applause) Without boasting, without any kind of immodesty, that is how we Cuban revolutionaries understand our internationalist duty.
TRICONTINENTAL CONFERENCE
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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’.
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Part of this is down to his penchant for boasting about his morning run on social media.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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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.
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For centuries it has been inhabited by tribespeople - Afridis, Waziris, Baluchis and many more - each boasting to be more fearsome than the others.
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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
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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
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Tired of his boasting, his boss called his bluff.
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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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The place has one of the longer bars in York, boasting beers, bottles and spirits of all descriptions.
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Next stop was Florence, and our base was the Anglo American, a plush hotel boasting Tolstoy among its former guests.
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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.
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Flowers are blooming weeks earlier than usual with Castle Howard boasting daffodils, snowdrops, rhododendrons, azaleas and crocuses.
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I can sympathize with her aggravation with being around boasting parents.
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There are nearly 200 knights, lords, and their ladies milling about, conversing, boasting, laughing.
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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
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That's a 100% copper-bottomed pure common sense policy, and Labour are boasting they're against it?
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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For one, he's supposedly been caught boasting about non-existent software before.
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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
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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
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Boasting four fire buttons, plus a fairly flimsy throttle control, this too has plenty of features.
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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
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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.
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Once, after boasting how little petrol his car used to go round the mountain, a crowd of people turned out asking Sam to prove it.
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His philosophy in being an official was to gain the good opinion of his superiors by boasting about his achievements.
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Therefore the whole chain of his boastings which is conducted through the work falls to the ground.
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March
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Fresh from the garden it might have been once, but then it was preserved, processed, packaged, plastered with a label boasting how fresh it is then finally sent to wait for you in your supermarket.
Ellen Kanner: Meatless Monday: Listening To Your Broccoli
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Wild berry fruit bar in yogurt coating boasting it is made from real fruit.
The Sun
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The religion which has taught men truth -- above all things, _truth_ -- which teaches utter horror of a lie, which insists on the bare, bald reality in heaven and earth, which has taught men hatred of the false as the meanest and most unmanly thing existing -- this religion took its rise in claptrap miracles, was puffed into popularity by boasting pretensions, was born in trickery and nurtured by legerdemain!
Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
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The boasting fishermen got their gear together and climbed into the boat.
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I don't really want to tell her to get lost but listening to her boasting makes me feel really miserable.
The Sun
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Is then this a fellow fit to be believed when he writes of any man or city, who in one word deprives Greece of the victory, throws down the trophy, and pronounces the inscriptions they had set up to Diana Proseoa (EASTWARD-FACING) to be nothing but pride and vain boasting?
Essays and Miscellanies
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His boasting and anger still had that sullen petulant edge.
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Haworth is the railway's headquarters, boasting a locomotive depot where visitors can view the steam leviathans under repair or restoration.
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Most recently, the company jumped into the smoothies market, rolling out Yoplait Nouriche, a single-serve non-fat yogurt smoothie, boasting ‘all the nourishment of a meal.’
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Vincenzo Bellini Milan, Italy, 1831Boasting the famous Casta Diva aria, Norma is the ultimate bel canto tragedy about a druid priestess who, secretly, has two children and an erring lover, with catastrophic results.
Top 50 operas
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Audiences have a tough time relating to the unfathomable wealth and incessant boasting of these artists.
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Some attackers post messages boasting of their slaps, some request new footage to be sent via e-mail.
Times, Sunday Times
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During all of this editorial project - all the boasting, praising, cajoling, and wheedling, indulging in witty asides - I've been staring fixedly into a computer screen.
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No mistake, the Big East is among the country's best basketball conferences, boasting four different national champs in the last 20 years.
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A navy diagonal pinstripe over a dusty pink and gray background creates this picture-perfect diagonal striped tie by Gucci, boasting flawless design and timeless style.
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I don't really want to tell her to get lost but listening to her boasting makes me feel really miserable.
The Sun
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But of course, a boaster often had their just reasons for boasting.
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He doesn't want this to be a time for vain or empty boasting.
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Slavish to this creed, planners brought us three soulless retail parks boasting multi-national chains selling artless tat on the outskirts of town.
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As it is, you boast and brag. All such boasting is evil.
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And his son Alexis did not appear to be boasting at school of his father's appointment, as in filial duty he ought to have done.
COUP D'ETAT
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The wooden bins, wisp-floored and empty of mice, will soon be heaped high by the strong arms of laughing young men boasting of the height of their sheafs, the speed of their reaping, and the goodness of their grains.
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If you are left alone, that quality of education you are boasting about will crumble and dilapidate.
Obama, Peres and Colbert on the Persian New Year - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com
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Ethan was very fond of boasting of his illustrious ancestor, and on that account found himself frequently "joshed" by his chums.
Phil Bradley's Mountain Boys The Birch Bark Lodge
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Deeds and words must be matched and theory and practice must be closely integrated. We must reject flashiness (without substance) and every sort of boasting.
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Boasting that its uniforms, methods, and attitudes make it stand out in a food court of banality, the franchise founded in 1946 at Muscle Beach, Santa Monica, spares no humiliation when dandifying its always smiling, sprightly employees. website, Hot Dog on a Stick's uniforms were inspired by a quirky 1960's trend that saw jockey caps and hot pants in fashion.
Minyanville
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I don't really want to tell her to get lost but listening to her boasting makes me feel really miserable.
The Sun
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Today, Sony announced new E-series laptops packing Intel i3 and i5 core processors and boasting, brashy colored exteriors.
Betanews
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If Alcatel had new direction, why was it still boasting of a manufacturing "trimaran" in telecoms, trains and nuclear power?
Buying American
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brash immodest boasting
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Boasting buzzards, merlins, kestrels, peregrines, and ospreys, the county has ten of a total UK species of 15-making it one of the nation's key habitats.
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We hear him writhing in pain and singing to his mother and boasting about a comeback.
Times, Sunday Times
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Each apartment has one WC / shower room as well as a large en-suite bathroom, boasting a spa bath, tiled floors and recessed mirrors.
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I have lost many a thing; and when I was boasting just now that I had everything in my sack, I was guilty of exaggeration, as men of limited capacity are, in the use of the two words _everything_ and _nothing_.
Harper's Young People, February 24, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly
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The "men" is emphatic; men of sense; in antithesis to "vain boasting." mockest -- upbraidest God by complaints, "shall no man make thee ashamed?
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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He had entered the footguards in 1771, and used to introduce his brother - officers to his dusky bride, boasting his confidence in her fidelity.
Lavengro The Scholar - The Gypsy - The Priest, Vol. 1 (of 2)
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Naive teenagers might be forgiven for boasting about their drunken Schoolies exploits, but what excuse do these adult "toolies" have?
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We had all been trained for this scenario, in theory, with textbooks boasting glossy colored photos, in classrooms without air conditioning, each of us in turn taking hold of the various instruments—bag and mask, laryngoscope, and finally endotracheal tubes—that would be provided at the deliveries where resuscitation was called for.
Between Expectations
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He made a boasting announcement that he was going to give an important speech in Cairo.
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The two brothers reside with their boasting aunt and a compliant uncle.
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Wild berry fruit bar in yogurt coating boasting it is made from real fruit.
The Sun
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Your boasting is not good. Don't you know that a little yeast works through the whole batch of dough?
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Wild berry fruit bar in yogurt coating boasting it is made from real fruit.
The Sun
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The mayor is boasting that the city is experiencing unprecedented good times.
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It has been successful in sharing common goals and values, while boasting rapidly deployable forces that work together.
Times, Sunday Times
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But they walked free - despite one boasting on tape that he had used a mincing machine to dispose of her remains.
The Sun
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The soon-to-be dad has changed his tune after boasting about his lack of qualifications.
The Sun
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This Pharisee was boasting, in other words, of an asceticism beyond the norm.
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For $7, tourists sail off for a day's imbibing of stomach-churning mulberry wine on a ramshackle boat, boasting the loudest sound-system in the country.
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Popular hot spots in the Keighley area are already boasting an increase in interest, which reflects a survey carried out by the Country Land and Business Association.
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But the smaller key was for another locker, four feet high and five inches wide boasting a single rail and hanger - adequate for storing a single item of clothing as long as it wasn't a petticoated ball gown.
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With this boasting, this ‘fanfaronade’ as he himself called it, he wanted to show that Prussia was still rich and powerful.
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Cheating, boasting, malice and spite - my sons are blessedly free from all of these.
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He was boasting about how brave he was at the start, but copped out at the finish.
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Boasting more than 12,000 total titles, the Willis catalog also includes everything from band and orchestra music and guitar solos, to operettas and manuscript paper.
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Often derided as a cultural desert, it is listed as boasting plenty for arts lovers to experience.
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Set within five acres of orchard and boasting battlements, parapet walkway, Great Hall and thick stone walls, the tower is perched above Crossford in the beautiful Clyde Valley.
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In England, there was scarcely an amount of order and protection to justify much national boasting.
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She defended it in terms so robust as to seem to her prudish contemporaries as boasting of promiscuity.
DOVES OF WAR: Four Women of Spain
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Niobe was Queen of Thebes, as related in Ovid, whose children die as the gods 'punishment for her shameful boasting, while she turns to stone.
Niobe, Regina di Tebe; Faust; The Makropulos Case; Fidelio
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The soon-to-be dad has changed his tune after boasting about his lack of qualifications.
The Sun
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The view out the window was sun drenched and warm, boasting a rolling hillside covered by a grassy ocean of nameless headstones.
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The speech included more than 20 references to himself and so much boasting.
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I don't really want to tell her to get lost but listening to her boasting makes me feel really miserable.
The Sun
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Flowers are blooming weeks earlier than usual with Castle Howard boasting daffodils, snowdrops, rhododendrons, azaleas and crocuses.
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Mobile phone network operator 02 has been boasting recently about the extensive coverage it offers customers.
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Boasting characteristically dry Aussie wit, the first half of the film is a decent, dark dramedy.
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The first up Challambra Crescent, at 1,100 meters in length, is also the toughest, coming after 4. 6km and boasting a 13 percent maximum gradient (with an 8 percent average).
World Championships: Dissecting the road race parcours
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He was standing in the center of a beautiful garden boasting blooming lilacs and tulips lost in a tangle of exotic plants, fruits and vegetables.
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The following extract comes from a series of boasting stories about drinking and getting drunk.
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It is a thing of natural beauty, boasting narrow fairways and thick rough, where there is a fine balance between risk and reward.
Times, Sunday Times
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Part of this is down to his penchant for boasting about his morning run on social media.
Times, Sunday Times
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When it wins or finishes second in all people, it's not backward in boasting of that fact!
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Darlington has been boasting about its forthcoming attraction at the Cornmill.
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Week after week, content sites unveil redesigned products, boasting new and improved user interfaces, easy navigation and digestible information.
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The new A-class range features both five and three-door models which it labels deceptively with Saloon and Coupe designations, boasting a completely new look designed to distinguish the new model from its controversial predecessor.
Australian Car Advice | News Blog
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His sole diversion is sex - bedding down young virgins, cuckolding his close subordinates, and then boasting of the exploits in banquet speeches.
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He didn't talk about his exam results in case people thought he was boasting.
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If the other side had won the boasting and bragging would have been unbearable.
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The Banbury Road was in full flower—herbaceous borders still boasting a few bluebells, the forsythia giving way to prunus, bridal wreath, and lilac.
Day of the Dandelion
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He also caused outrage by boasting about his collection of weapons.
The Sun
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The two sides have been boasting of a new garden city, help for bingo halls and a fuel tax freeze.
Times, Sunday Times
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She is always boasting about how wonderful her children are.
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The two sides have been boasting of a new garden city, help for bingo halls and a fuel tax freeze.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is no charlatanic boasting, but the simple truth, when we affirm that the different natural methods of treatment, as we of the Nature
Nature Cure
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Boasting a stellar career that spans over 40 years, Freddie began developing his craft in the mid-60s.
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The company turned its world headquarters into a boasting billboard.
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It was not the candidate's own blog, but that of a boasting friend, that revealed the truth.
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This time the tone changed from hardily fierce to suspicious boasting.
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Whose discreet surveillance he'd been boasting about to the DCI only yesterday.
CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
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Paul admitted that boasting over his apostolic credentials made him a fool.
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The GF1 is compatible with an optional Live View Finder(DMW-LVF1), which provides the full-time live view function boasting 100% field of view regardless of the lens to attach.
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You get a modest pre-game overview with quotes from players and fans, stats for each quarter, the post-win boasting, the press conference interviews for each game and final trophy ceremony.
Michael Giltz: DVDs: Johnny Carson Outshines His Boxed Set
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The 1950s recordings have been in limbo until recently, boasting neither modern sound nor superlative sentimental value.
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She has listened well to the tales the minstrels and jongleurs tell in private company, to the boasting of troubadours and the knights of the castle, and I care not to speculate on how this has come to pass.
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There was no foolish boasting in his talking about what he would do at the inauguration ceremony.
Truman
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With Hanse, Bandon To Keep Expandin' The Bandon Dunes links resort in southern Oregon, already boasting four Top 100 courses with a 13-hole par-three course under construction, is proposing a 27-hole addition.
Anyone Want to Carry Tiger's Bag?
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For example: A Texan was boasting to an Arkansan about his ranch.
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Unfortunately, plenty of investors develop the nasty habit of boasting of their gains instead of contemplating possible overvaluation concerns.
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Boasting of his good economic management’ fails to give credit to all the good spadework done by years of Labour governments.
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But Squirt is the only show boasting a computer-generated penguin made with the same technology that creates all those whizzy real-time graphics for sporting events.
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All four bedrooms are generous in size with all rooms boasting built-in wardrobes.
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He talks deadspeak with an unrepentant deceased Viking Erik “Scarhelm” Haroldson, but cuts the raider off when he cannot abide the man’s boasting leaving him in his watery grave with his crew.
Necroscope: Harry and the Pirates-Brian Lumley « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews
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It was also said how he sent vile messages boasting how the production team would protect him from being found out.
The Sun
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Storage space abounds inside with the new fascia boasting a central lidded storage box plus two glove boxes on the passenger side.
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But you see, for all the boasting, he didn't have ego problems.
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The interior of the Grade II building has been converted into a swish joint, boasting laminate flooring and beech-topped tables.
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I don't really want to tell her to get lost but listening to her boasting makes me feel really miserable.
The Sun
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A comparison between light railways in both Boston and San Franciso show that despite Boston boasting a light railway with low operational energy use, their LRT is a far larger greenhouse gas (GHG) emitter because 82 per cent of the energy generated in Boston is fossil-fuel based, compared to only 49 per cent in San Francisco.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
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Also, our ideological and theoretical workers should always guard against self-satisfaction, narrow-minded conservatism and ignorant boasting, failings which Comrade Mao Zedong warned us against.
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He also bankrolled Tennessee’s popular annual music festival, Bonnaroo, and cofounded ATO Records, a label boasting My Morning Jacket, David Gray, and Liz Phair.
Fortune’s Fool
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The bed itself was simple, boasting a modest headboard, and it sat between two nightstands that each carried frames filled with family, and half-filled glasses of water.
Todd Clayton: Stickers, Someday
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Surely your readers by this time have learned to properly estimate the empty assurances and vain boastings of the Northern Government and press in relation to the suppression of the rebellion.
The Confederate States of America
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He is as much of an anglophile in his pop obsessions as fellow young broody Yank Pete Yorn, the intro to Puppets boasting a Peter Hook bass line that New Order would not throw out the studio.
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The hotel caters for guests engaged in both work and pleasure, boasting a health spa with six treatment rooms and a fitness suite, as well as fully equipped conference facilities.
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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
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City arrived boasting the second-best defensive record in the Championship.
The Sun
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It's great you won a prize - as long as you're not acting stuck-up, boasting about it or hanging with the teacher.
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The patio-boasting spot serves Sabrett frankfurters $3.50 a piece, as well as charbroiled Polish sausage, andouille links and Wisconsin brats.
A Looong Way From Coney Island
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Every noodle dish we tried was excellent, the noodles firm and the sauces well prepared and boasting balanced flavors.
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Some, really convinced of the vanity of an empty profession, and of boasting of saintship upon the account of faith and light without holiness and godliness, -- which was the way of many when James and
The Sermons of John Owen
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After boasting that his company could outperform the industry's best, he's been forced to eat humble pie.
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This practice of boasting was called indulging in "gabs" (= Eng. "gab"), a good instance of which will be found in "Le Voyage de Charlemagne a
Four Arthurian Romances
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He was completely smitten at the time and was boasting how he'd met the perfect woman.
The Sun
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We hear him writhing in pain and singing to his mother and boasting about a comeback.
Times, Sunday Times
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In one of the American cities she came across a man who was boasting because occasionally British dukes go to the States to find wives.
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And as he, too, rose to his feet, an unconscious smile came to his lips as he recalled the boastings of Bateese.
The Flaming Forest
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Boasting 15 tracks, four of which act as short instrumental interludes between songs, the album booklet includes landscapes and urban scenes entwined with vocalist Bruce Conlon's sappy poetry.
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Connor brings a feisty sweetness to the stage, coupled with a well-integrated voice boasting a sizzling range.
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A hundred years on, the heirs of Alfred Harmsworth are sticking it to the Yanks – boasting about "reinventing popular journalism for the digital era".
New York Times bows to Mail Online – for now
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He was known as a swordsman the nobleman said, boasting a little; he’d picked quarrels with certain men on her behalf, and killed them.
Wildfire
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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.
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This kind of rhodomontade is very finely expressed in English by the word puff, which in its literal sense, signifies a blowing, or violent gust of wind, and in the metaphorical sense, a boasting or bragging.
Travels in England in 1782
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Even though we always acted with all the necessary firmness, at no time during the negotiating process did we utter an arrogant, prepotent, or boasting word.
Castro Honors Internationalists, Views Socialism
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Promoters were boasting a membership of more than 700 even before the concrete was dry.
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A classic and one of the most poignant tracks on the album, boasting swinging melody lines and sweet vocals.
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STEFÀN WAS DECKED OUT IN A STEEL BLUE, five-button single-breasted suit, which was accessorized by a pale gray Italian cotton shirt monogrammed with his initials, its French cuffs boasting white gold knotted links.
Who Said It Would Be Easy
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Two boasting kids try to outdo each other during a game.
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When the data is returned to Earth, the measurements are displayed in graphs as peaks, with the most abundant mineral boasting the tallest peak.
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Mrs. Mortimer noted her sparkling glances which took in everything, and went out of her way to show Saxon around, doing it under the guise of gleeful boastings, stating the costs of the different materials, explaining how she had done things with her own hands, such as staining the doors, weathering the bookcases, and putting together the big Mission Morris chair.
CHAPTER III
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Let's stay on the higher ground, because boasting about trophies is the type of argument that frankly belongs on a playground.
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The soon-to-be dad has changed his tune after boasting about his lack of qualifications.
The Sun
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By the way, I don't need spellcheck, I think I'm pretty good at spelling already (not boasting, I used to get all obsessed with spelling as a kid).
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It's the first purple fountain grass, boasting tricoloured foliage, it is perfect for mixing with summer bedding and pots.
The Sun
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A Texan was boasting to an Arkansan about his ranch.
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He didn't talk about his exam results in case people thought he was boasting.
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The soon-to-be dad has changed his tune after boasting about his lack of qualifications.
The Sun
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Dublin exploded from a sleepy backwater to a city boasting some of the most expensive real estate in Europe.
The Jig Is Up
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The football gods take a dim view of boasting after victory; boasting after defeat is a new low in rodomontade.
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I had to look up what rodomontade means and it means arrogant boasting blustering or ranting talk
Think Diouf is vile? Listen to the fans | Kevin McKenna
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The women continue their boasting as the bartender serves his final drink of the night.
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Motivation aux boasting that gemfibrozil mg animals for histex hc rights regularly bon le parvaneh yasmin city.
Big Wall Street Journal Poll Contains Comfort For Both Parties
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It is more of a honky-tonk than a restaurant but it is boasting an oyster bar.
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Writing to Air Marshal Richard Peck, the assistant chief of the Air Staff in London, he chummily dramatized his time in Hollywood, taking personal credit for “wangling the script” into the Disney Studios and boasting about the imminent book release, which he claimed was likely to sell half a million copies and thereby greatly benefit the RAF Benevolent Fund.
Storyteller
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I hope this doesn't sound like boasting, but as soon as all the frumps saw my get-up, they bowed to my superior hideousness.
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It came with its own dining hall in the centre, boasting a domed roof at more than normal ceiling height.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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What's also exciting about this new night is its location, the sumptuous, light-up dancefloor-boasting Clapham Grand, which normally plays host to rowdy events like the notorious Aussie piss-up, The Church.
This week's new clubs
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For example, zoo security officials were told of one man who was boasting of his plans to steal exotic birds.
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I told you that I would probably regret my boasting.
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He wrote a boasting article in the newspaper.
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There were no long-winded speeches boasting of his winning record or what he would do to his next opponent.
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France has earned a reputation for stubborn arrogance in the wine world for boasting of its inimitable terroirs and millennia-old viticultural traditions, while slapping lawsuits on any upstart foreign winemaker who dares to label his tipple Champagne or Chablis.
TIME.com: Top Stories
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There was no foolish boasting in his talking about what he would do at the inauguration ceremony.
Truman
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For example, zoo security officials were told of one man who was boasting of his plans to steal exotic birds.
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Tai chi, kung fu, and Chan Buddhism better known outside China as Zen are said to have originated here.6 It was the birthplace of Lao-tzu and other influential philosophers and was a center of political power in ancient times, boasting three former national capitals: Luoyang, Anyang, and Kaifeng.
When a Billion Chinese Jump
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Boasting about how swimmingly this was going, and how much upstream clout he has, is entirely natural.
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We hear him writhing in pain and singing to his mother and boasting about a comeback.
Times, Sunday Times
