vaunt
IPA: vˈɔnt
noun
- A instance of vaunting; a boast.
- (obsolete) The first part.
verb
- (intransitive) To speak boastfully.
- (transitive) To speak boastfully about.
- (transitive) To boast of; to make a vain display of; to display with ostentation.
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Examples of "vaunt" in Sentences
- He was king of the blooddrinkers -- Kwa remembered Bele's vaunt.
- Time is also running out on Greg's ability to vaunt himself on such formulas as:
- In point of boring h istorical fact, the mention of Persepolis in his hero's vaunt is a serious anachronism.
- That, and something more elementary into the bargain: not just a rhetorical vaunt but a phonetic vector as well.
- He is even a member of a club called the Boosters, whose sole purpose is to celebrate and vaunt Zenith's virtues wherever possible.
- The script may vaunt Eduardo and demonize Zuckerberg, but it also begs the question -- who would we rather be, given the way things turned out?
- Well-heeled Chinese individuals aren't shy about flaunting their wealth, and it is one of the few markets in which manufacturers can openly vaunt the luxurious nature of their products.
- During the life of the empire, the term was reserved for Constantine's city, originally a Greek colony called Byzantion, whose inhabitants liked to vaunt their identity as "Byzantines."
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