be proud of
Example Sentences
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His mother told him, “Be strong for everyone else. Your dad will always be proud of you.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026
"It's something that old Cumberland can be proud of, because we're using the waste of that old resource to transition to cleaner energy."
From Science Daily • May 6, 2026
He also wants them to be proud of who they are, and proud to be Americans.
From Slate • Apr. 19, 2026
If I became another statistic on those charts I was obsessively tracking, what would I be proud of and what would I regret?
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 22, 2026
“I just want you to be proud of who you are. Of everything you are.”
From "The First Rule of Punk" by Celia C. Pérez
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