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verb bəʊstboʊst 1reporting verb Talk with excessive pride and self-satisfaction about one's achievements, possessions, or abilities. no object she boasted about her many conquests with clause he boasted that he had taken part in the crime with direct speech Ted used to boast ‘I manage ten people.’ Example sentencesExamples - In fact Burns rather overdid the drams when he boasted about his boozing.
- No aristocrat worth his title would ever have boasted about his wealth and possessions.
- We compared notes, boasted about the number we had consumed and crossed our hearts to confirm that what we told was the truth.
- He often boasted about his frequent trips to Paris and always insisted on picking up dinner tabs.
- Every day in school, he would boast about his achievements in sports and Mensa.
- They will have told someone about it, perhaps even boasted about it.
- A very modest man he never boasted of his fine abilities, but helped everybody.
- He is the one who boasted about having smoked before anyone else in the class.
- Had sales momentum been maintained, Real would surely have boasted about it.
- A decline in education quality have made students less inclined to boast about achievements.
- His philosophy in being an official was to gain the good opinion of his superiors by boasting about his achievements.
- He never boasted of his achievements and in fact he refused a knighthood which was offered to him in 1847.
- Evan was beginning to learn how to wield a short sword and boasted about his strength and speed.
- He boasted about how police had failed to capture the killer.
- Our reforming party had a proud record of social service and we boasted about it.
- Justin Woods doesn't like to boast about his culinary achievements - so let me do it for him.
- Harold loved to boast about the achievements of his family members from his great grandchildren, of which he had ten, to his own children.
- Singh had even boasted about breaking his court order, so his arrest should have not been a surprise to anyone.
- He seemed to be a man of few words, and did not care to boast about his military achievements.
- He has done so many successful, remarkable things and he never, ever boasted about them.
Synonyms brag, crow, swagger, swank, gloat, show off, blow one's own trumpet, sing one's own praises, congratulate oneself, pat oneself on the back exaggerate, overstate preen oneself, give oneself airs informal talk big, blow hard, lay it on thick, shoot one's mouth off Australian/New Zealand informal skite, big-note oneself 2with object (of a person, place, or thing) possess (a feature that is a source of pride) the hotel boasts high standards of comfort Example sentencesExamples - The house boasts such features as walls constructed from straw bales.
- Few other cities can boast such a location, in the midst of one of the most concentrated and historic rail works in the world.
- The Atlanta area boasts a thriving business marketplace as well as a very strong arts community.
- The Buffalo City municipality boasts eco-tourism development and has certain unique features, according to Sam.
- The town now boasts the Harlequin shopping centre.
- The area boasts the site of the 11 th-century Battle of Cruden, which saw King Malcolm defend Scotland from Viking invaders.
- For example, their latest motherboards boast features like built-in wireless capabilities and a whole host of software to recover the worst computer crashes.
- Probably the first of its kind in China, the park boasts an inner area of 3,000 square metres and hosts over 200 types of insects and reptiles.
- Both cities boast a vibrant and thriving business community, featuring many car dealerships, retail stores and restaurants.
- The Central New York region boasts a highly eclectic butter sculpture collection at the Fairgrounds.
- This city boasts a strong spirit of entrepreneurship and a sense of creativity.
- The city boasts a strong European flavor, with cobbled streets, chic restaurants and a lively atmosphere.
- The luxurious New Forest property boasts features from 14-carat gold painted radiators and silk tented ceilings to a space for a helicopter landing pad.
- In fact the city boasts the world's first and longest car-free pedestrian street, known as the Stroget.
- The small village of Rincon area boasts several world class waves, including Trés Palmas.
- It is doubtful that any other area of the country boasts a league with so many teams and players.
- The park also boasts a chillingly effective World Extinct Wildlife Cemetery to illustrate the plight of endangered species.
- Southeast of Cleveland, the town boasts the world's fourth-largest Amish settlement.
- Although the county boasts some of the best educational standards in the country, it has still been set challenging improvement targets.
- This location boasts the standard decor and services of a five-star hotel.
Synonyms possess, have, own, enjoy, pride oneself/itself on, be the proud owner of
noun bəʊstboʊst An act of talking with excessive pride and self-satisfaction. I said I would win and it wasn't an idle boast Example sentencesExamples - However, it's the proud boast of their publicity that literally everything is imported from Italy, a fact which is reflected in the pricing.
- Of course, he meant that as a proud boast, not a confession of ignorance.
- That is not an idle boast, for the network is alive night and day with the thundering rattle of powerful locomotives and the incessant clanking of machinery in repair depots and marshalling yards.
- It is our proud boast that we have the highest number of spaces in Greater Manchester, outside of the city.
- It was time to forget about pride and my proud boast of being ‘always well’.
- Bartley once said that his proudest boast was that he produced an editorial page that actually sold newspapers.
- Their proud boast is that they have just spent £40,000 on every bedroom in the place, and they've made sure you can see where every penny went.
- Hard as that is, follow their lead and you'll soon discover those ornate menu descriptions aren't idle boasts.
- The proud boast is that they have ‘The best steaks and ribs in the kingdom’.
- For long enough, it was his perhaps his proudest boast.
- His proud boast was that he could not turn on a television anywhere in the world without seeing a film being broadcast that he had helped make.
- For years his proudest boast has been that while others have criticised his growth forecasts, he has ended up having the last laugh.
- Both claim to have never been beaten at the bar, but that is soon to become an idle boast for one of them.
- A prouder boast would be that it was ‘the most patriotic’.
- But this is an idle boast if police are forced to abandon one set of law breakers to chase after another.
- When Lemerre said he could select two teams who would be among the finest around it was not the idle boast of a manager misleading himself about the assets at his disposal.
- It has been a proud boast of our law for centuries that it punishes people for what it is proven they have done, not for what some authority or expert theorises they might want to do.
- His proudest boast as a businessman was undoubtedly that he published the first picture postcard of York in 1893.
- The five-star resort's proud boast is that it has no fewer than 42 swimming pools artfully woven into its maze of rooms, apartments and villas.
- The cover of David Kuo's new book describes him as an internet goliath, and for once this is not an idle boast.
Synonyms brag, self-praise exaggeration, overstatement bragging, crowing, swaggering informal swank, swanking Australian/New Zealand informal skite literary fanfaronade archaic vaunt, rodomontade, gasconade
Origin Middle English (as a noun): of unknown origin. Rhymes coast, ghost, host, most, oast, post, roast, toast noun bəʊstboʊst (in squash) a stroke in which the ball is made to hit one of the side walls before hitting the front wall. Example sentencesExamples - Lee wins it with a tight forehand drop of her own but cannot get the next point and after three service changes it's the backhand boast from Jans Burke which gives her the championship.
- His favourite ploy was a backhand boast pulling Beachill to the front right corner and whatever Beachill did with that tight ball, Parke was ready.
- Racing to a 6-0 lead in the third, Edwards moved Farrer continuously, cutting off early and using the boast to good effect.
- Barker demonstrated his state of mind with a backhand boast into the tin to close out the 11 minute game.
- Parke made an error on a backhand boast, which gave Nicol a window and he hauled himself up to hit four winners to get to 8-12.
Origin Late 19th century: perhaps from French bosse denoting a rounded projection in the wall of a court for real tennis. verbbōstboʊst 1reporting verb Talk with excessive pride and self-satisfaction about one's achievements, possessions, or abilities. no object she boasted about her many conquests with clause he boasted that he had taken part in the crime with direct speech Ted used to boast, “I manage ten people” Example sentencesExamples - Every day in school, he would boast about his achievements in sports and Mensa.
- Had sales momentum been maintained, Real would surely have boasted about it.
- He often boasted about his frequent trips to Paris and always insisted on picking up dinner tabs.
- Singh had even boasted about breaking his court order, so his arrest should have not been a surprise to anyone.
- A decline in education quality have made students less inclined to boast about achievements.
- They will have told someone about it, perhaps even boasted about it.
- He seemed to be a man of few words, and did not care to boast about his military achievements.
- He has done so many successful, remarkable things and he never, ever boasted about them.
- Evan was beginning to learn how to wield a short sword and boasted about his strength and speed.
- He never boasted of his achievements and in fact he refused a knighthood which was offered to him in 1847.
- Our reforming party had a proud record of social service and we boasted about it.
- Justin Woods doesn't like to boast about his culinary achievements - so let me do it for him.
- He boasted about how police had failed to capture the killer.
- He is the one who boasted about having smoked before anyone else in the class.
- His philosophy in being an official was to gain the good opinion of his superiors by boasting about his achievements.
- In fact Burns rather overdid the drams when he boasted about his boozing.
- A very modest man he never boasted of his fine abilities, but helped everybody.
- Harold loved to boast about the achievements of his family members from his great grandchildren, of which he had ten, to his own children.
- We compared notes, boasted about the number we had consumed and crossed our hearts to confirm that what we told was the truth.
- No aristocrat worth his title would ever have boasted about his wealth and possessions.
Synonyms brag, crow, swagger, swank, gloat, show off, blow one's own trumpet, sing one's own praises, congratulate oneself, pat oneself on the back 2with object (of a person, place, or thing) possess (a feature that is a source of pride) the hotel boasts high standards of comfort Example sentencesExamples - The Buffalo City municipality boasts eco-tourism development and has certain unique features, according to Sam.
- Few other cities can boast such a location, in the midst of one of the most concentrated and historic rail works in the world.
- In fact the city boasts the world's first and longest car-free pedestrian street, known as the Stroget.
- The Atlanta area boasts a thriving business marketplace as well as a very strong arts community.
- This city boasts a strong spirit of entrepreneurship and a sense of creativity.
- The city boasts a strong European flavor, with cobbled streets, chic restaurants and a lively atmosphere.
- The luxurious New Forest property boasts features from 14-carat gold painted radiators and silk tented ceilings to a space for a helicopter landing pad.
- For example, their latest motherboards boast features like built-in wireless capabilities and a whole host of software to recover the worst computer crashes.
- Both cities boast a vibrant and thriving business community, featuring many car dealerships, retail stores and restaurants.
- The house boasts such features as walls constructed from straw bales.
- It is doubtful that any other area of the country boasts a league with so many teams and players.
- The town now boasts the Harlequin shopping centre.
- This location boasts the standard decor and services of a five-star hotel.
- Probably the first of its kind in China, the park boasts an inner area of 3,000 square metres and hosts over 200 types of insects and reptiles.
- The area boasts the site of the 11 th-century Battle of Cruden, which saw King Malcolm defend Scotland from Viking invaders.
- Southeast of Cleveland, the town boasts the world's fourth-largest Amish settlement.
- The park also boasts a chillingly effective World Extinct Wildlife Cemetery to illustrate the plight of endangered species.
- The small village of Rincon area boasts several world class waves, including Trés Palmas.
- Although the county boasts some of the best educational standards in the country, it has still been set challenging improvement targets.
- The Central New York region boasts a highly eclectic butter sculpture collection at the Fairgrounds.
Synonyms possess, have, own, enjoy, pride itself on, pride oneself on, be the proud owner of
nounbōstboʊst An act of talking with excessive pride and self-satisfaction. I said I would score, and it wasn't an idle boast Example sentencesExamples - The five-star resort's proud boast is that it has no fewer than 42 swimming pools artfully woven into its maze of rooms, apartments and villas.
- His proudest boast as a businessman was undoubtedly that he published the first picture postcard of York in 1893.
- It was time to forget about pride and my proud boast of being ‘always well’.
- For long enough, it was his perhaps his proudest boast.
- Hard as that is, follow their lead and you'll soon discover those ornate menu descriptions aren't idle boasts.
- It is our proud boast that we have the highest number of spaces in Greater Manchester, outside of the city.
- That is not an idle boast, for the network is alive night and day with the thundering rattle of powerful locomotives and the incessant clanking of machinery in repair depots and marshalling yards.
- A prouder boast would be that it was ‘the most patriotic’.
- But this is an idle boast if police are forced to abandon one set of law breakers to chase after another.
- The cover of David Kuo's new book describes him as an internet goliath, and for once this is not an idle boast.
- However, it's the proud boast of their publicity that literally everything is imported from Italy, a fact which is reflected in the pricing.
- His proud boast was that he could not turn on a television anywhere in the world without seeing a film being broadcast that he had helped make.
- Both claim to have never been beaten at the bar, but that is soon to become an idle boast for one of them.
- Their proud boast is that they have just spent £40,000 on every bedroom in the place, and they've made sure you can see where every penny went.
- Of course, he meant that as a proud boast, not a confession of ignorance.
- The proud boast is that they have ‘The best steaks and ribs in the kingdom’.
- It has been a proud boast of our law for centuries that it punishes people for what it is proven they have done, not for what some authority or expert theorises they might want to do.
- When Lemerre said he could select two teams who would be among the finest around it was not the idle boast of a manager misleading himself about the assets at his disposal.
- Bartley once said that his proudest boast was that he produced an editorial page that actually sold newspapers.
- For years his proudest boast has been that while others have criticised his growth forecasts, he has ended up having the last laugh.
Origin Middle English (as a noun): of unknown origin. nounboʊstbōst (in squash) a stroke in which the ball is made to hit one of the sidewalls before hitting the front wall. Example sentencesExamples - His favourite ploy was a backhand boast pulling Beachill to the front right corner and whatever Beachill did with that tight ball, Parke was ready.
- Barker demonstrated his state of mind with a backhand boast into the tin to close out the 11 minute game.
- Racing to a 6-0 lead in the third, Edwards moved Farrer continuously, cutting off early and using the boast to good effect.
- Lee wins it with a tight forehand drop of her own but cannot get the next point and after three service changes it's the backhand boast from Jans Burke which gives her the championship.
- Parke made an error on a backhand boast, which gave Nicol a window and he hauled himself up to hit four winners to get to 8-12.
Origin Late 19th century: perhaps from French bosse denoting a rounded projection in the wall of a court for real tennis. |