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How to use boastful in a sentence

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As I've said before, I don't want to put up pictures, because it seems boastful and ostentatious.
He oozes confidence in his ability to please, without any of the boastful pretense that a human with his charms would inevitably have.
On the contrast, he had stopped acting arrogant and boastful, and was even becoming shy and modest.
It retells the rise and fall of a boastful but unenterprising man who marries a well-to-do, enterprising woman named Mary.
You have a considerable amount of self-confidence, and you like yourself without being conceited or boastful.
But I want to remind him of this one simple fact before he becomes excessively boastful, as he is wont to do.
Plato describes him as a vain man being both arrogant and boastful, having a wide but superficial knowledge.
Emma asked Mrs. Elton about her musical abilities, and she was both modest and boastful.
He is a rather unpleasant figure throughout much of the play, a boastful blowhard, a bully, a coward.
The industry has been quite creative, indeed even boastful at times, about their solutions to this ever-growing problem.
Also known for his almost demonic pride, he produced masterpieces of boastful verses.
Unlike your average male specimen, he did not look proud and boastful when first me, then Riley squealed over his car.
Never arrogant or boastful, they stand their ground and carry themselves with authority.
Gossips themselves are classified with people who are slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful.
I don't know why I'm hanging with big-head, the boastful of all that is dumb guy stuff, otherwise known as Jordon.
His pleasure when events went his way was the uncomplicated pleasure of a child or a boastful teenager.
They should, he said, be neither boastful and overconfident nor despondent and hopeless.
Winston Churchill, who personally vetted many of the British military code words, ordered that they should be neither overly boastful, nor frivolous.
The brother's got the boastful swagger of your favorite rapper, the entrepreneurial instincts of a street hustler and a pen as swift as his tongue is sharp.
Baffled or humbled by the land, we are disinclined to be boastful.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Thus do the ambulant images of God cloak their shackles proudly, and divert the judicious with their boastful shouts.
He was every inch a Gascon, a boastful talker, an exaggerator, fond of posing and a little of a bully.
I would not be boastful, but it is the charmingest place, at the foot of the Ardennes.
A well-respected business man and church-member, he felt uneasy to be at the mercy of a laddie who might be boastful.
The reprobate ended his boastful confession with another burst of hiccuping, and Staniford helplessly laughed.
The only effect it had on the position was that Uncle Mo's temporariness got a little boastful, and slighted his permanency.
Age is commonly boastful, and inclined to magnify past acts and past times.
False and boastful conceits and phrases mount upwards and take their place.
Mr. Van Wyk, peering alongside, heard a muzzy boastful voice apparently jeering at a person called Prendergast.
We learn from them that he was vain and boastful, a loud talker and a deep drinker.
The Arabs are captives of armed jihadist hotheads and magniloquent boastful fellow travellers.
He turned to the father, and spoke with an air of boastful good nature.
The conspiracy was revealed by a boozing and boastful conspirator.
She was a conceited, boastful old thing, and even misfortune could not humble her.
A hearty kissing I got for a welcome, and some boastful triumph, which I swallowed as well as I could.
The expression of his eye contradicted his figurative and boastful language, while every muscle in his wrinkled visage was working with anguish.
They were even boastful of its eminence in those particulars, and were fired by an express conviction that, if it were less objectionable, it would be less respectable.
They were a vain and boastful company of heroes when the tale was done.
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