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Example sentences for "vaunting"

Lexicographically close words:
vaults; vaulty; vaunt; vaunted; vaunteth; vauntingly; vaunts; vaurien; vaut; vaward
  1. The veteran Ali Arab had sat in gloomy silence during the early part of the conversation, but his light wicker cap started to the apex of his bald crown as he rose in wrath at the last vaunting words of the son of the Debeni.

  2. The followers of magnetism were as loud as ever in vaunting its efficacy as a cure, and its value, not only to the science of medicine, but to philosophy in general.

  3. The most wonderful stories soon obtained general circulation, and the press groaned with pamphlets, all vaunting the curative effects of the tractors, which were sold at five guineas the pair.

  4. Vain were the threat'nings of the vaunting foe.

  5. A psalm had better befitted our lips than those rude and vaunting words, seeing that we should never sing again upon this earth; but at least we sang bravely and gayly, with minds that were reasonably quiet.

  6. Now he answered with a burst of vaunting oaths: "We're in deep water, and there's deep water beyond.

  7. In those days, if fleets did presume on the main, They seldom or never returned back again; As witness the vaunting Armada of Spain.

  8. Will front that vaunting figure and not fear?

  9. Therefore, with wary warning, school my son, Though he be lessoned by the gods already, To curb the vaunting that affronts high Heaven!

  10. For, if night fall upon his eyes in death, Yon vaunting blazon will its own truth prove, And he is prophet of his folly's fall.

  11. In no vaunting spirit, (GOD is my witness!

  12. And now what doeth he, who but now bade me come forth, vaunting himself with mighty praise, and chafing others with his arrogant words, and scattering harsh taunts, as though in his one body he enclosed twelve lives?

  13. Whereupon Bratti had much to say as to the unlikelihood of such rings being within reach of many people, with much vaunting of his own rare connections, due to his known wisdom, and honesty.

  14. Vaunting these proofs of his might, he boldly threatens destruction to the throne of God himself: bidding the inhabitants of heaven flee from a place which can no longer afford them a refuge of safety!

  15. On returning to the barrier, he found there the Infanzon, with his armor all uninjured, and his armorial bearing as fresh as if just emblazoned, for the vaunting warrior had not ventured beyond the barrier.

  16. It was from a vaunting Moor named Acefali, who had entered the territories of Castile with a powerful force of horse and foot, giving out that he had come to measure strength and prowess with the count in battle.

  17. Watch well, and let every shaft go home; avoid only the head and the heart; such orgulous vaunting is best cured by blood-letting.

  18. It was the middle of September; eight months had elapsed since the Norman had launched forth his vaunting threat.

  19. Something made or performed in a fanciful, wanton, or vaunting manner, by way of ostentation, to excite admiration, etc.

  20. Many a nobleman lies stark and stiff Under the hoofs of vaunting enemies.

  21. Did one of all that vaunting train, Who dare affront a peaceful reign, Durst one in arms appear?

  22. There was no vaunting in his soul of his own righteousness; yet never was he irritable even in old age, when the blood grows cold, and the thwarted ambitions come trooping home to roost in the lives of most of us.

  23. Go, tell the polished scholar, the profound philosopher, and the vaunting moralist, that the doctrine of Christ crucified is the only knowledge that can save the soul!

  24. Watt slowly awoke to the consciousness that his theory did not stand the test of practice, and that this had been proven by one who had often heard him vaunting as to his fearlessness of the supernatural.

  25. Who does not know your vaunting citizens!

  26. They had been stung to the quick, also, by the vaunting airs assumed by the Northwesters.


  27. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vaunting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ambitious; bluster; boast; boastful; bombast; brag; braggart; bragging; bravado; classy; conceit; conceited; egotism; egotistical; fancy; heroics; jactitation; lofty; ostentatious; pretentious; rodomontade; side; swagger; vain; vainglorious; vanity; vaunt