boast
Example Sentences
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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.”
That’s notable for a company that only boasts a newly disclosed $14 billion annual revenue run rate — admittedly up from nothing just three years ago.
From MarketWatch
While Essayli has boasted of charging more than 100 defendants with assaulting federal officers or impeding immigration agents, those cases are crumbling in court.
From Los Angeles Times
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