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105 example sentences for BOAST, such as:

1. Great boast, small roast.
2. He boasted that he could eat a horse.
3. The boast of arrogance soon turns to shame.
4. He openly boasted of his skill as a burglar.
5. He's always boasting about his sexual prowess.

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 Meanings and Examples of BOAST
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
boast
 v.  show off oneself; speak of with excessive pride
Classic Sentence: (85 in 6 pages)
1  daughter when I could boast as high a name and vast a.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TEN
2  Next to her I saw Antiope, daughter to Asopus, who could boast of having slept in the arms of even Jove himself, and who bore him two sons Amphion and Zethus.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XI
3  The east had its own charm or fine deep blue, and its own modest gem, a casino and solitary star: soon it would boast the moon; but she was yet beneath the horizon.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
4  My father said nothing about her money; but he told me Miss Mason was the boast of Spanish Town for her beauty: and this was no lie.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
5  Mr. Darcy's shameful boast of what misery he had been able to inflict, gave her a keener sense of her sister's sufferings.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 34
6  Our situation with regard to Lady Catherine's family is indeed the sort of extraordinary advantage and blessing which few can boast.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 38
7  It gave her all the animation that her spirits could boast; for she was in no cheerful humour.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 54
8  As to the decision of civil causes, or proceedings against criminals, their precedents are so few, that they have little reason to boast of any extraordinary skill in either.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER VII.
9  Neither have I forgotten how apt some travellers are to boast of extraordinary favours they have received.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER X.
10  Mrs. Peniston had chosen the wrong moment to boast of her niece's charms.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 11
11  I don't want to boast, but I must say I don't have much trouble with Bea.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
12  Scully held an important party office in the state, and bossed even the mayor of the city, it was said; it was his boast that he carried the stockyards in his pocket.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
13  But let them not boast before the face of the Manitou too loud.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 29
14  Colonel Lloyd's slaves would boast his ability to buy and sell Jacob Jepson.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
15  Mr. Jepson's slaves would boast his ability to whip Colonel Lloyd.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
Example Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1  I don't want to boast, but I can actually speak six languages.
2  Speak little of your ill luck and boast not of your good luck.
3  This is an age when we boast of our emotional intelligence and we claim to feel each other's pain.
4  There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
5  The boast of arrogance soon turns to shame.
6  Great boast, small roast.
7  Many of the sports facilities are already in place and the city can boast one of the most compact proposals running alongside the Moscow river.
8  Sam boasted that she could beat anyone at poker.
9  He boasted that he could eat a horse.
10  He openly boasted of his skill as a burglar.
11  As I said, it is very easy to jeer from the sidelines and make boastful claims of what you would do in the same situation.
12  He wrote a boastful autobiography, recording all his great deeds.
13  He's always boasting about his sexual prowess.
14  The rich uncle of whom he boasts is only a myth.
15  The museum boasts an unrivalled collection of French porcelain.