How To Use Gloat In A Sentence

  • And, no, I didn't gloat or say anything mean about politics.
  • Never gloat over the ruin of your friend.
  • A disaster for the media, but worth a gloat from everyone else.
  • Of particular beauty here, of course, is the use of utterly inappropriate terms to maintain the rhyme, which saw ‘gloat’ used as a noun directly above this unlearned and unlovely deformed child of a verse.
  • How the demons and vampires in the ward had gloated! Dreams of a Dark Warrior
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  • ‘Of course, it was from my help that you passed,’ he gloated with a big triumphant smile.
  • While the Left Party is gloating over its unexpected election success, a grand coalition will go into action.
  • As expected chavismo is gloating, including very, very unseemingly the new president of the TSJ who was not involved directly in that decision although we can be quite certain he orchestrated it. 03/06/2005 - 03/13/2005
  • His right hand, clenched into an iron mallet, battered desperately at the fearful face bent toward his; the beast-like teeth shattered under his blows and blood splattered, but still the red eyes gloated and the taloned fingers sank deeper and deeper until a ringing in Turlogh's ears knelled his soul's departure. People of the Dark
  • He may not have sat gloating in some gloomy back room over his great hoard of treasures. Times, Sunday Times
  • As a passionate believer that we should keep the pound and stay out of the euro, I am allowed a short gloat.
  • Most people who follow sport know enough not to gloat: your own misfortunes will follow soon enough. Times, Sunday Times
  • But he is not gloating over his victory.
  • Therefore, others frustrated, frustration, grief, should not gloat, but should be caring, understanding feelings.
  • This album's lairy gloating is made just about bearable because Tinie is, at heart, a nice guy, who – like his most obvious referent, Kanye West – mentions his mum every few songs. Tinie Tempah: Disc-Overy
  • I knew you knew it would work out this way but gloating like that is, well, just tacky.
  • He had been trying hard not to gloat over polls that might, after all, be only a blip on the graph. Times, Sunday Times
  • When they have something to gloat about they are happy. The Sun
  • Leading hawks within the Bush administration are gloating over their humbling of Europe and are opposed to any concessions to America's rivals.
  • There is no style in gloating about money. Times, Sunday Times
  • When Darwin received some new plants for the hothouse, he wrote to a friend that he and Henrietta ‘go & gloat over them.’
  • Therefore, others frustrated, frustration, grief, should not gloat, but should be caring, understanding feelings.
  • I was waiting for you to jump on the table and gloat about having him ask you out, but you… Gawd, you weren't acting like yourself.
  • He may not have sat gloating in some gloomy back room over his great hoard of treasures. Times, Sunday Times
  • Actually, there is a bit of enviousness, or what we call, I don't know what is the English word for it, but it is like gloating. CNN Transcript Dec 10, 2009
  • Here was a gloating scheme of ingenuity, an immigrant strategy for economic survival that was taking on great possibilities.
  • He gloated over his fellow student's failure to win the prize.
  • He sat there, gloating as he ate his second helping of dessert.
  • He told her of the fairy mill, of the old man's gloating pride in the word miser, of All Souls 'Eve and Adam Craig's hints about the apple tree and the lilac bush. Kenny
  • Never gloat over the ruin of your friend.
  • He gloated over his fellow student's failure to win the prize.
  • For example, many evangelicals are almost gloating over the decline of the liberals. Christianity Today
  • There is a temptation to do a bit of gloating about the unprofessional standards of certain accountancy firms.
  • There were throaty, gloating roars from more than 30,000 fans as their side notched up another league win in midweek.
  • He turned up at that moment, and frankly gloated over the success of what he called shove the seventh, and twist the first. Ghosts I Have Met and Some Others
  • They inform you, but never hectoringly or gloatingly. Times, Sunday Times
  • But this resurrection is so often artless and joyless gloating, reducing an intense physiological/psychological experience to vulgar explication.
  • Either the Kiwis wipe the floor with us and the commentators gloat ‘told-you’, or we'll win and hopefully shut up the whining, carping know-alls - for a week at least
  • Never gloat over the ruin of your friend.
  • So when a dispute arose over whether Ecstasy is really bad for you, the legions of E users gloated and gurned at the idea.
  • Shallow Throat": Dems 'Cave-In Is Truly Scary yahooBuzzArticleHeadline ='"Shallow Throat": Dems\ 'Cave-In Is Truly Scary'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: The high-ranking GOP mole says CheneyBush are gloating at the Democrats\' appalling strategic mistake in voting to re-fund the Iraq War. "Shallow Throat": Dems' Cave-In Is Truly Scary
  • There's something about us that when something pretty awful arises from computer errors, we have a quiet gloat!
  • Not gloating, but out of respect, we knew the enormity of what we had achieved.
  • 'gloated' but I'm merely stating the fact that they ARE a beatable side and whenever this has happened; it's always been because of their own doing. Muti
  • In one tape the men can be heard gloating about how little evidence the police had. Times, Sunday Times
  • For example, many evangelicals are almost gloating over the decline of the liberals. Christianity Today
  • Fine: then what is called for now is not triumphalism and gloating, but an abject apology.
  • The media undoubtedly gloat over celebrity misbehaviour with children.
  • He slavers over the idea of streaking her eyes to make her full of "hateful fantasies" and gloats over the prospect of her waking next to some "vile thing. The Guardian World News
  • He may not have sat gloating in some gloomy back room over his great hoard of treasures. Times, Sunday Times
  • He may not have sat gloating in some gloomy back room over his great hoard of treasures. Times, Sunday Times
  • English tourists, outraged by the gloating - despite our inglorious failure to qualify for the tournament ourselves - are threatening to pick up their ball and walk away, taking their cash with them.
  • But we should not gloat over this any more than we should gloat about Wiggins. Times, Sunday Times
  • She didn't notice and flickered out with a gloat, only to flicker back again.
  • Amid the confusion of new experiences she gloats over her ability to choose and purchase half-a-dozen common articles with the composure and accustomedness of a veteran. The Joy of Advertising
  • Over him I'll allow myself this one little gloat.
  • Some conservative commentators, who didn't have much else to gloat about, dwelt lingeringly on what they evidently regarded as the upside of the huge, Obama-sparked African-American turnout.
  • The balance of gloating now seems to have moved to the supposed determination of the Americans to grab all the reconstruction contracts.
  • Having lost a large percentage of the vote, they were in no position to gloat.
  • Her name gloated in the corner of those little white cards with the pink stripe across the top. The Queen of Everything
  • It is an unenviable situation, and not one that should make us gloat. Times, Sunday Times
  • It would take some black-hearted schadenfreude to gloat over the comedian's 75-second quickie divorce from his 18-month civil partnership.
  • I contemplated forgoing the gloating and simply waving to the Beemer boys in a gentlemanly, dignified manner.
  • His pre-emptive gloat page was proven to be horribly incorrect and has now been removed from his website and archives.
  • Sorry, but I just have to gloat a bit here.
  • Now she's out via injury and I'm deprived a long and satisfying gloat.
  • This helped me to be a great deal less judgmental and to avoid gloating at the misfortune of others.
  • Of particular beauty here, of course, is the use of utterly inappropriate terms to maintain the rhyme, which saw ‘gloat’ used as a noun directly above this unlearned and unlovely deformed child of a verse.
  • She was still gloating over her rival's disappointment.
  • But he refused to gloat after United teammate Veron was substituted after an ineffective performance.
  • He had been trying hard not to gloat over polls that might, after all, be only a blip on the graph. Times, Sunday Times
  • I am sure that Edmund Burke would never have gloated over the defeat of the Trinity College football team or the Middle Temple hockey team, if those great institutions had football and hockey teams. The Volokh Conspiracy » Self-hating Wolverine
  • He didn't, for fear of being seen to gloat about public sector job cuts. Times, Sunday Times
  • Bin Laden later gloated that every dollar al-Qaeda invested in the operation cost the U.S. economy $1 million dollars: a leveraged investment of $500,000 by al-Qaeda in its “Holy Tuesday” operation ultimately cost the American economy $500 billion. The Longest War
  • But before gloating at their discomfort, the government has its own manifesto dilemma.
  • For all their vaunted intelligence and breeding people enjoy their symbols and they like to gloat.
  • he spoke gloatingly about people he had cheated out of their money
  • `I am not surprised you `ave a shock to see ` im `ere," she gloated. MURKY SHALLOWS
  • For centuries we women have gloated over the one negative aspect of aging more evident in men than women: balding.
  • The pro-Noriega Press, the only newspapers permitted to publish, gloated over the general's suppression of the coup.
  • There may be those who are secretly gloating about all this.
  • Cartoonists have depicted these forces more anthropomorphically, drawing tormented characters with shining angels on one shoulder and gloating devils on the other. Song of My Selves
  • I can count all my bones; people stare and gloat over me.
  • Don't gloat,the same misfortune may happen to you one day.
  • Thus thought Dwining, as, returned from his visit to Sir John Ramorny, he added the gold he had received for his various services to the mass of his treasure; and, having gloated over the whole for a minute or two, turned the key on his concealed treasure house, and walked forth on his visits to his patients, yielding the wall to every man whom he met and bowing and doffing his bonnet to the poorest burgher that owned a petty booth, nay, to the artificers who gained their precarious bread by the labour of their welked hands. The Fair Maid of Perth
  • But I am convinced it was about gloating. The Sun
  • Marshall gloated with a big successful grin on his face.
  • For centuries we women have gloated over the one negative aspect of aging more evident in men than women: balding.
  • When Mars chose that bitch over her, and then practically gloated about it by allowing it to be captured on the covers of virtually every entertainment tabloid on the newsstands, it was the kind of slap in the face that was more than a woman like Portia Foster could take. Larger Than Lyfe
  • To only a few had he been the devil who gloated over their private grief.
  • `I am not surprised you `ave a shock to see ` im `ere," she gloated. MURKY SHALLOWS
  • But I am convinced it was about gloating. The Sun
  • Every year, he dreads Christmas, because that's the time ‘when everyone who's ever left comes back for their annual gloat.’
  • None other than committed Tory, and NO voter, Fred (Sir Fred) Goodwin, (see below to explain why) No gloating from Fred though – he came to consol me. Archive 2009-03-01
  • Without looking to the right or left to notice the scene of rural wealth, on which he had so often gloated, he went straight to the stable, and with several hearty cuffs and kicks, roused his steed most uncourteously from the comfortable quarters in which he was soundly sleeping, dreaming of mountains of corn and oats, and whole valleys of timothy and clover. The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon
  • They produced cartoons that were distributed widely in Southern California that showed Karenga and his comrades gloating about the murders.
  • `I am not surprised you `ave a shock to see ` im `ere," she gloated. MURKY SHALLOWS
  • He wasn't gloating," Aleneil said, then stopped as a dryad with beflowered, trailing willow-withies for hair asked what they would have. Ill Met By Moonlight
  • 'Halter-broke and bridle-wise,' the Chauffeur gloated, while she performed that dreadful, menial task. Page 7
  • Never gloat over the ruin of your friend.
  • I could only imagine how much Claire was going to gloat over her sudden victory.
  • I closed the drawer, I hopped and gloated and laughed, triumphing, completely maniacal, demoniac.
  • There's no gloating about it. Times, Sunday Times
  • Between gloating, and babbling about how she and the Queen would discuss dress-making while Albert and I boozed in the gunroom (she had a marvellous notion of court life, you see), she went into declines at the thought that she would come out in spots, or have her drawers fall down when being presented. Fiancée
  • And then she'll gloat about it. Times, Sunday Times
  • In accord with my mother's advice I had endeavoured to cherish an affection for my uncle, yet withal there was something about the man that misliked me much, and, to speak straight to the point, that actually 'fley'd' me, for he would gloat o 'night over his glass of toddy on any scandal afloat concerning the' unco guid, 'and would speak with tongue i' the cheek of virtue in general, as if indeed hypocrisy were the true king of this world. Border Ghost Stories
  • For centuries we women have gloated over the one negative aspect of aging more evident in men than women: balding.
  • He is too well-mannered to gloat openly although there is a suggestion of a gleam in his eyes.
  • Dash gloated for a minute, but then a melted candy snapped off its vine and fell on her head. Magic Hearts
  • Smiling to herself, she gloated silently in her triumph of being the first one in the kitchen; therefore having first dibs on all of the food.
  • There's no gloating about it. Times, Sunday Times
  • I don't want those ghouls from the council gawping at his wounds and gloating over a victory they did nothing to achieve. THE ANCIENT AND SOLITARY REIGN
  • The luderick are still in the local haunts and the outside lads have not much to gloat about at all.
  • French teacher, loving children, wanting in dignity, broken in English, irritable in disposition; a sensitive young stranger, fresh from home, charming in innocence, sad with thoughts of a dear mother; a poor, frightened kitten, are all objects for boys 'cruelty to gloat over. Captain Mugford Our Salt and Fresh Water Tutors
  • After Pancratius has conquered all that opposed him -- has triumphantly gloated over his Fourieristic schemes for the _material_ well-being of the race whom he has robbed of all higher faith -- he grows agitated at the very name of God when it falls from the lips of his confidant, The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
  • My low, glum eyebrow position immediately exploded into a gigantic gleeful gloat!
  • No, I'm not gloating, because too much pain has been caused.
  • Who hasn't gloated over candid snaps that show up a former screen goddess in a less than flattering light?
  • He didn't, for fear of being seen to gloat about public sector job cuts. Times, Sunday Times
  • `I am not surprised you ` ave a shock to see `im `ere," she gloated. MURKY SHALLOWS
  • The media undoubtedly gloat over celebrity misbehaviour with children.
  • The indictment cited internal company emails, gloating that the Wiseguys "pigged out" for a Giants playoff game last year and "dominated" a ticket purchase of a "Dancing With the Stars" event in 2008. Four Charged in Bid To Buy, Resell Tickets
  • Samson routinely got into fights, and once killed 1000 Philistines single-handedly and then gloated over it, showing no remorse.
  • I wonder why Richard didn't include this link in his recent gloat post?
  • You have seen the sort of man I mean: to-day generous to his last plack, to-morrow the widow's oppressor; Sunday a soul humble at the throne of grace, and writhing with remorse for some child's sin, Monday riding vain-gloriously in the glaur on the road to hell, bragging of filthy amours, and inwardly gloating upon a crime anticipated. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
  • Yet Today handed him a taxpayer-funded forum so he could gloat about a crime that appalled the nation. The Sun
  • Yet Today handed him a taxpayer-funded forum so he could gloat about a crime that appalled the nation. The Sun
  • That's hardly what I call a substantial lead worth gloating over. Poll: Hillary Beating The Republicans In Florida
  • They gloat over profits or trash confirmation slips for losing trades.
  • a voice gloated from the darkness, and the hulking form of Tonio appeared. Spell of Magic – Part 4 « Official Harry Harrison News Blog
  • "You can't do anything, " she was already gloating over her victory.
  • Say phooey to all your gloating girlfriends who spend V-day with any old bloke just because they are too insecure to make it on their own.
  • Of course one shouldn't forget about prizes and giving the winners an opportunity to gloat a bit!
  • It has been gloat and counter-gloat, according to the news of the day.
  • I paused my gloating momentarily to glance over my shoulder. Christianity Today
  • He may not have sat gloating in some gloomy back room over his great hoard of treasures. Times, Sunday Times
  • Anti-abortionists are gloating over the court's decision.
  • The fact was that he had sold out certain stock, and every night took an intense delight in contemplating those ten thousand francs, gloating over them, and finding something quite roysterous and insurrectional in their appearance. The Fat and the Thin
  • `I am not surprised you `ave a shock to see ` im `ere," she gloated. MURKY SHALLOWS
  • The conventional politenesses of each relationship are interspersed with hurt, power play, and gloating.
  • He hasn't just bent the rules in his stupidity but gloated as to the outcome which goes against all common principles of acceptable sportsmanship.
  • With the exception of the two people who called to gloat, I'd like to thank the ladies and gentleman who texted, emailed or called to make sure I wasn't morphing into a human dalek.
  • Stop gloating just because you won the game!
  • The flight coordinator could not contain the gloat as the aircraft lifted off to record another on-time take off.
  • I stress I know nothing about the woman herself, but the background to his defenestration – hate mail from pro-life and animal cruelty groups, frenzied character assassinations from the ghastly Cristina Odone, and an unspeakably unpleasant piece of twit-gloating from the even ghastlier Nadine Dorries soon afterwards – is inescapable. Arise, geeks
  • Ignorance and fanaticism is ever busy and needs feeding. Always it is feeding and gloating for more. Clarence Darrow 
  • I had begged my companion to intervene, but he had not only laughed at my tenderheartedness, he had drawn me along to gloat at the death. In Celebration Of Lammas Night
  • The article described in gloating detail all of the things that they'd bought with their bingo winnings and gave several nuggets of information revealing what their lives had been like before and after the win.
  • It takes a rare and graceful person to withstand the temptation to gloat over others.
  • He ought to be able to blockade his mind to any speculations as concerned his future usefulness by raising up a perfect barricade of past memories, and then by sitting down on top of the barricade and gloating because it was a little higher than that upbuilt by the next man. The Brentons
  • And then she'll gloat about it. Times, Sunday Times
  • My father had a go-round with the school headmaster himself," Carl said, gloating a little. ANGELS EVERYWHERE
  • He did get the box down, so I could then have a quick gloat over all that loot I have up there, and will take years to get through.
  • Earlier, in my 11:26am post, I identified the one right-wing blogger who "gloated" over the troll's death. "You may have seen that some Hillary Clinton 'sock puppets' were recently outed on a New Hampshire blog, to the campaign’s great embarrassment."
  • In one tape the men can be heard gloating about how little evidence the police had. Times, Sunday Times
  • I sneaked a glance over at him and gloated silently.
  • The captain and purser are gloating over the sycee silver, for the Chinese government is as jealous of its exportation as of the importation of opium; and the sky and the sea are dark and angry. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873
  • For all anyone knows, al-Qaida's gloating in its murderous glossy magazine, Inspire, and Niall Ferguson's talk of a caliphate are just as otiose as Blair's jawdropping exhortation, given his legacy of mayhem, for the west to show "the courage of our convictions, and the self-confident belief we can achieve them". Women are often the losers when the west weighs in | Catherine Bennett
  • He is politically incorrect, and glories in it with ecstatic gloat.
  • Myself and about 6 or 7 close friends were all in Bruce's study with Tim, passing around my chillum filled with herb grown by my hands (a bit of gloating here).
  • Of particular beauty here, of course, is the use of utterly inappropriate terms to maintain the rhyme, which saw ‘gloat’ used as a noun directly above this unlearned and unlovely deformed child of a verse.
  • I closed the drawer, I hopped and gloated and laughed, triumphing, completely maniacal, demoniac.
  • But we should not gloat over this any more than we should gloat about Wiggins. Times, Sunday Times
  • There is no style in gloating about money. Times, Sunday Times
  • `I am not surprised you ` ave a shock to see `im `ere," she gloated. MURKY SHALLOWS
  • It takes a special kind of sadist, doesn't it, to troll Lebanese blogs and either lecture or gloat at the misery of people whose homes and families are under military attack? But Why Are You Lebanese So Angry?
  • it was supererogatory of her to gloat
  • Air Force Academy where students are pressured to attend the Crusade's weekly "cru" - (short for crusade) Bible study, American military personnel are, as Campus Crusade's Scot Blom gloats, "government paid missionaries" - when they complete their training. U.S. Military's Middle East Crusade for Christ
  • The miser gloated over his gold.
  • He was gloating over the ruin of his rival.
  • I can count all my bones; people stare gloat over me.
  • When they have something to gloat about they are happy. The Sun
  • It is very tempting for those of us who have been ~ in person and in print ~ let us say lukewarm at best to the Twenty20/IPL innovation, to gloat over the fate of the Indian cricket team after their Caribbean capsizal. The Statesman
  • `I am not surprised you `ave a shock to see ` im `ere," she gloated. MURKY SHALLOWS
  • Had the consequences not been so tragic and desperately inhumane, we would have been excused for gloating.
  • An impersonal and scientific knowledge of the structure of our bodies is the surest safeguard against prurient curiosity and lascivious gloating. Married Love: or, Love in Marriage
  • Adam shamelessly accepted the word miser with a gloating chuckle. Kenny
  • But with division rival Tampa Bay coming to Charlotte next Monday night, Smith wasn't gloating about the Panthers 'stunning 35-31 victory in wintry conditions at Lambeau Field. USATODAY.com
  • Stop gloating just because you won the game!
  • You land up wallowing in self piety and gloat over the fact that you have been used and hurt.
  • My company launched a woman's forum, newspapers gloated over successful women and hotels and boutiques offered discounts to lady patrons.
  • It was horrible to see her gloating over her brother's misfortune.

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