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boast English

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What does boast mean?
Definitions in simple English

boast

To boast means to brag about yourself. Usually about what you do, and the good things about you. After the game Joe started to boast about his skill as a goalie.

boast

show off (= sport) wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner she was sporting a new hat speaking of yourself in superlatives

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Conjugation boast conjugation

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boast · verb

Examples boast examples

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Simple sentences

I have nothing to boast about.
It's not a thing one can well boast of.
Don't boast too much about that.
He likes to boast about his father's successful automobile business.
He was apt to boast of his knowledge.
Great boast and small roast.
Esperanto spread around the world without bloodshed. What other world language can make the same boast?

Movie subtitles

He likes to sit on my bed at night and boast to me about the things he's done during the day.
The chancellor of Crogandy, for whom we boast many merits, has already won my heart.
This is the bit of international diplomacy I shall boast about to my grandchildren, the nasty little demons.
There's a lot to boast of.
What will you boast of before the Lord?
We've little to boast about, but the world hasn't come to an end just because we've run into a setback.
I don't think he meant to boast of it. He spoke of it quite calmly.
They openly boast about it!
That'll be a fine boast to make.
I declare I'd like to know how many families of our acquaintance could boast two rounds of the best gin punch! None! No one!
So few people can boast they've lost a flying saucer and a man from Mars all in one day.
I'll show you how emptily I boast.
Maybe he did boast to that woman that he was in good health.
Do you not boast to be the bravest man in all Sicily?
It's nothing to boast about.
Cahusac, you boast a knowledge of pearls.
Prove to the world that no man could kill women and children and live to boast of it.
If he's acquitted, he could boast about it and we couldn't touch him.
You pink them slightly in the arm and shoulder and they boast of having met you.
How many other generals can boast the favor and support of a leader. so gifted in the arts of war?
Let me boast.
Do you not boast to be the bravest man in all Sicily? Come on!
Evemhing was peaceful and quiet, until I guess it was the devil who prompted me to boast that I had sold those. four pigs.
Here to boast of your woman?
There is nothing to boast about, but I have hired two young people.
I'd go to the ends of the earth, and that's no idle boast.
Peyrac is insane to boast to my cousin.
But, o, vain boast, who can control his fate?
Juan, that force you show you have received from God, and if you received it from Him, why do you boast of it?
It doesn't always have to boast, that's not its quality. It's like a nationality.
The specimen is about to boast of his strength, the weaponry of his vessel, and so on.
You always boast of your uprightness, so why don't you tell the truth?
Could, let's say, your land of that same era make that same boast?

News and current affairs

But this boast means different things for each country.
And the African leaders already know that this is not an empty boast.
Although some Americans always like to boast about their superior work ethic, this disparity in working hours between the US and Europe has not always existed.
Gore's film would give the Europeans, always in danger of being marginalized at these meetings, the chance to boast about how they, unlike the Americans and Russians, are already doing their part by heavily taxing gas consumption.
The country may not match up to its Asian neighbors in prosperity, but Indians have always been able to boast of the vitality of their parliamentary system.
So it's funny to boast that one's own brand of knowledge, whether experimental physics, mathematics, or cosmology, is useless.
America prides itself on being one of the world's most prosperous countries, and can boast that in every recent year except one (2009) per capita GDP has increased.
Before, Prime Minister Kostov and his government could boast of successes in undoing the ruinous policies of the previous socialist government.
It is no coincidence that these countries now boast bold social programs that are dramatically reducing hunger among the poorest groups.
On the contrary, Russia's key economic institutions boast competent managers.
China could boast technological wonders - the compass, navigational abilities, the printing press, fireworks and explosives - that barely touched the rest of the world.
Was Bush right to boast of America's role in giving these countries their freedom?
If other democracies boast Right, Center and Left, we have Jewish and Arab parties, secular and religious, peacenik and hard-line, socialist and free-market.
Bankers boast of having paid back in full the government bailout funds that they received when the crisis erupted.
Obama is right to boast of his success in enlisting China to join serious sanctions on North Korea, but he might be wrong to draw conclusions from this about Iran, a vital strategic partner for the Chinese.
While both are developing countries - many of whose people remain impoverished - they also boast impressive capabilities in information age technologies both for civilian and military purposes.

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