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Example sentences for "gloated"

Lexicographically close words:
glittering; glitters; gloam; gloaming; gloat; gloating; gloatingly; gloats; glob; global
  1. He heard his companion talking, but grasped only that the attorney gloated and gloried.

  2. Glenister continued to lose and lose and lose, while the girl gloated over his swift-coming ruin.

  3. Bat gloated over his rival; Castellani was dumfounded.

  4. Many and many a night in the bare little back room at Miss Crane's, Eliphalet had gloated over the very event which was now come to pass.

  5. Eliphalet himself marvelled at her change of manner, and gloated over that likewise.

  6. Reginald's black eye gloated and glittered at this unexpected display of wealth in so dazzling a form.

  7. His eyes fairly gloated on this evidence of civilised state, so much recalling the surroundings in which he was most at home.

  8. Yes, I have no doubt of it now, from the way it looks and from the way that woman gloated over me.

  9. When she heard of that appointment she actually gloated over it, but, mother, she found herself unequal to it.

  10. In earlier times there were theologians who almost gloated over the damnation of millions of our race.

  11. So far did they go who professed it, that some of them gloated over the prospect of souls in torment.

  12. It was late at night before Nero, who had secretly gloated over the imagination of their terrors, allowed them to be dismissed, with the remark that they had been sufficiently punished for their consular banquet.

  13. Tigellinus personally presided, and gloated over their torments.

  14. I gloated over the ghastliness of each detail; howls resounded through the vault; somebody whom one could not see, whose vicinity was not even suspected, would suddenly drop upon another's shoulder.

  15. He gloated over them with a beatified expression and seemed to envelop them in his pious sweetness, for he rejoiced in these last instances of self-abandonment which were preparing the means of grace.

  16. All round The fell Fates gloated horribly o'er the slain.

  17. Reckless of wounds, in that grim toil pressed on Those aweless heroes: Strife incarnate watched And gloated o'er them.

  18. That'll hold her for a while," gloated Stoodles.

  19. She had a ring on her finger--a ring that for months I had gloated over and watched, as I had never watched and gloated over any other beautiful thing in my life.

  20. The shaggy-haired one fairly gloated in his triumph.

  21. He gloated over her not yet budded form, the swan-like neck, unlined piquant features, the golden head-curls that fell in ringlets.

  22. She gloated over her spoils as she smilingly assured herself, "I shall take him at his word.

  23. They climbed the parapets of the earthworks, and gloated and made merry over the scene of suffering.

  24. Some of these surgeons gloated over the distresses of their fellow-men, and delighted in the awful destruction of life which was branding with eternal infamy the manhood of their nation.

  25. Several of the papers of the South openly and unhesitatingly approved of the methods of their prison depletion, and gloated over the fearful destitution and mortality.

  26. Her own capital, invested by George Cannon in railway stock, was bringing in four times as much as she disbursed; and she gloated also on her savings.

  27. In another place: 'He went out and gloated over the great scene of immeasurable Nature.

  28. I gloated over the beautiful spectacle while the sun was setting.


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