boast
Example Sentences
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He boasted of “enormous progress” in reviving a business that is now effectively under U.S. management.
From Los Angeles Times
But now the city boasts major hub employers such as Bank of New York, IBM, Booking.com, and government services such as GCHQ.
From BBC
Along with boasting one of the most easily recallable and down-to-Earth refrains in popular music, “Kiss” has a noteworthy history.
From Salon
For this is the very first full-length photo of the politician already renowned for his towering height—and for good-naturedly boasting about it.
“Almost every European country, with the exception of Nazi Germany,” he writes, “boasted a larger number of Communists as a proportion of their overall population than any province in China.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
