crowing

Example Sentences

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While crowing about its Pentagon projects, IonQ hasn’t highlighted that the majority of them weren’t funded in the last two federal budgets, Wolfpack says.

From Barron's • Feb. 4, 2026

“When you have 7.5 billion people who don’t like you very well and you have 300 million who are crowing about how they have done.”

From Salon • May 3, 2025

Like most roosters, he’s fond of crowing as loudly as he can in the mornings.

From NewsForKids.net • Mar. 13, 2024

Characters take overcrowded buses to low-paying jobs, or wake up to the neighborhood rooster crowing at the break of dawn.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 21, 2024

This went on for a long time, so that even though I didn’t want to, I fell asleep, and next thing, a rooster was crowing and I woke up next to Delsa.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago