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Example sentences for: gloating

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

The characters respond tellingly, either gloating, helping, or scheming.
Emanuel and other gloating Clintonites contend that the president brought about this transformation by reclaiming the "vital center."
For its part, the Senate is positively gloating about its own unanimity, so different from the squabbling rancor in the House.
So it's no wonder that the press--at least that fraction of the press he does not own--is gloating about his recent troubles.
He refrains from gloating.