[ US /ˈbɹæɡ/ ]
[ UK /bɹˈæɡ/ ]
VERB
  1. show off
ADJECTIVE
  1. exceptionally good
    a boss hand at carpentry
    his brag cornfield
NOUN
  1. an instance of boastful talk
    his brag is worse than his fight
    whenever he won we were exposed to his gasconade

How To Use brag In A Sentence

  • And it is not clear that he will be sailing into the summer convention with a great deal of brag and bounce.
  • He bragged that he had passed the exam easily.
  • Walpole from then on ridiculed GW, calling him a fanfaron braggart, and saying that he soon “learned to blush for his rodomontade.” George Washington’s First War
  • There's even a Twitter handle now dedicated to some of the best humble brags out there.
  • The autumn birds were singing; the autumn flowers were blooming; yellow golden rod and scarlet sumach glowed in the corners of the fences; locusts chirped in treetops; grasshoppers stridulated in the meadows, one or two of them making more noise than a whole drove of cattle lying peacefully chewing their cud beneath an umbrageous elm and lifting up their great, tranquil, blinking eyes to the morning sun. The Redemption of David Corson
  • In 1974, Jimmy Connors, a strutting young braggart who used his racket like a cudgel, bludgeoned his way to the final of Wimbledon.
  • But, in the verity of extolment, I take him to be a soul of great article, and his infusion of such dearth and rareness as, to make true diction of him, his semblable is his mirror, and who else would trace him, his umbrage, nothing more. Hamlet
  • One does not always like to brag about her omniscience.
  • But it was restored as a chapel in 1662 by Charles II for his wife, Queen Catherine of Braganza, who established a friary in its grounds.
  • Why is it that Father would rather have a commander who is an arrogant braggart ---a fool who just appears to be leading his army? THE FAMILY
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