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Example sentences for "bragged"

Lexicographically close words:
braes; brag; braggadocio; braggart; braggarts; bragging; brags; braid; braided; braiding
  1. An hour passed: my Indians still danced and sang and bragged of deeds done and deeds to be accomplished; my young sorceress sat asleep, her head fallen back against me, her lips just parted.

  2. When they were putting their horses to the carts, in order to leave the place, each of them boasted and bragged of his bridal present.

  3. To all her neighbours O'Taki has pointed out and bragged of the favour of the Ojo[u]san.

  4. They bragged of it, and told the tale in full before this Mobei, laughing the while.

  5. She bragged and showed how dry she was; it could not be perceived that so much as the soles of her shoes were wet.

  6. On her trial she rather bragged than denied her guilt, but she would converse only in Irish, though she understood the English language very well.

  7. The wretch has bragged of it to his acquaintance, and already calls you his.

  8. The Arians, notwithstanding they were heretics, yet bragged they that they alone were Catholics, calling all the rest now Ambrosians, now Athanasians, now Johannites.

  9. George Warrington never bragged about his pedigree except under certain influences.

  10. The butcher came and quietly led off the ox and the lamb; and the farmer, finding the fox's brush in the trap, hung it up over his mantelpiece, and always bragged that he had been in at his death.

  11. I feel as good as if father had patted me on the head and bragged on me a lot.

  12. Oh, she has heard it bragged on so much she thinks people would say more if she could improve it.

  13. I could stand everything," I bragged "You could not, if I bit your finger.

  14. Altogether he made the impression of an exceedingly unaggressive, good-natured fellow, without anything like ginger in his make-up After he had bragged his fill he invited me to have a glass of soda with him.

  15. I might as well pass the test now as later,” bragged Paul, swimming out to the boat.

  16. Oh we intend doing lots of other things, too,” bragged Billy.

  17. Doubtless he had not forgotten the several plans for escape which I had dallied with and bragged about while in the violent ward.

  18. For he sat all silent while the heroes praised their heroic chargers, their mighty strength, or their rich store of treasure, and while the merchants bragged of their great wealth of Siberian fox-skins or sables.

  19. One man bragged of his horse, another of his valour, a third of his sharp sword, a fourth of his young wife, and a wise man who had not drunk so well, of the goodness of his father and the tenderness of his mother.

  20. The love of which he bragged was now lost to him, by his own exceeding fault.

  21. Not a single voice but bragged of her beauty, save only that of Graelent.

  22. When he saw that the emperor marveled at his statements, he bragged more and more, saying that he had palaces, herds, and other riches.

  23. What is true must remain true; he didn't keep his mouth shut, but opened it and bragged till it would have been supposed that real pearls fell from his lips.

  24. I have bragged enough as it is, and I have bragged to a purpose, as will be seen before my tale is ended.

  25. Voluminously he bragged of the velocipede in the stable at home.

  26. He went out and bragged in the street: "My cousin is comin' next week f'om New York.

  27. The latter had a position to sustain; he was well known; he often bragged of his willingness and ability to thrash other boys; well, then, here was a boy of his size who said that he could not thrash him.

  28. The soldiers bragged of nothing but of their employment in Ireland and the Low Countries--how they helped Drake to burn St. Domingo, or grave Maurice to hold out Breda.

  29. I wisht they'd come now," he bragged valorously, and for the moment he did.

  30. While he was counting out the bills Clay bragged up the suit.

  31. In his cups he still bragged of his bad record, of his accuracy as a gunman, of his gameness.

  32. When Webb drove through here two days ago with a herd, his killers bragged of it.

  33. He talked the stuff he talked before, And bragged as he had bragged of yore, With his Yankee chaff and his Yankee slang, And his Yankee bounce and his Yankee twang.

  34. She knew how he had prided himself upon that; how he had bragged of it to every listener, and had always lugged the fact in as the last expression of his sense of success.

  35. I guess we can carry out, and I guess we shan't want to send any excuse," bragged the Colonel.

  36. Chancellor of the Exchequer does me the honour to dine with us, and I want you to see him; for the truth is, I have bragged about you to his Lordship as the best actuary in the three kingdoms.

  37. But because a small clique wrote anæmic verse and bragged of the vices for which they had not the strength, because a few youthful artists invented new methods of expression the outsider did not understand, that does not mean decadence.


  38. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bragged" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.