Example sentences for: boasting

How can you use “boasting” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • About your comment in the June 16 "Today's Papers" about the "inordinate" amount of coverage that Al Dunlap's firing got: This guy has become a corporate symbol--arrogant, cocky, boasting he can turn a company around in seven months when others need years, eschewing corporate jets for coach seats.

  • Chat gets an entry as a New England expression, with a citation from Herman Melville boasting, By our immortal Bill of Rights, that guarantees to us liberty of speech, chat we Yankees will.

  • Readers knew there was going to be a fair measure of boasting and self-serving in that section.

  • Ginsburg is also heard boasting "I truly am the avuncular Mr. Ginsburg," and he condescendingly predicts that "the American people will let" President Clinton "limp to the end of his term."

  • Mann's credibility has been attacked by the Weekly Standard and the Washington Times , who ridicule her for using tarot cards and (allegedly) boasting about transporting soldiers telepathically.


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