These societies carried most of the elections, and Cicero himself, who so often boasted of the unanimity with which he had been chosen Consul, owed to them a great part of the suffrages he obtained.
Your boasted master Scarce stands at bay; each hour the strong blockade Hems him in closer, and ere long thou'lt view Oppression's iron rod to fragments shiver'd!
By Heav'n, this panting bosom hop'd to meet His boastedphalanx on the embattled plain.
The old hunter had not boasted too much of his local knowledge.
Baron Henry von Neuhaus, who had boasted to the King how many Brethren he had starved to death, went driving in his sleigh, was upset, and was skewered on his own hunting knife.
Unlike the latter fortress, however, it boasted none of the advantages afforded by culture; neither, indeed, was there a single spot in the immediate vicinity that was not clad in the eternal forest of these regions.
Where was his boasted purity in meeting you by stealth, as he must have been doing, and plotting to take you from me?
So he had boasted of being a ringleader until many believed him, including the authorities.
In the front Sanders Gilruth openly boasted (on Don's potato-pit) that by having a seat in two churches he could lie in bed on Sabbath and get the credit of being at one or other.
Some did not approve of his playing at the teetotum for ten minutes with Kitty Dundas's invalid son, but the way Kitty boasted about it would have disgusted anybody.
You mean the man who boastedso much about seeing a ball at Lord Rintoul's place?
He had a rolling gait, unless he was drunk, when he walked very straight, and before both sexes he boasted that any woman would take him for his beard alone.
Perhaps their only common characteristic was an ungoverned admiration for the charms of women, though, unlike Burr, Hamilton neither bragged of his amours, nor boasted that success attended his pursuit of pleasure.
France showed an indifference to America's commerce and England boasted an independence of America's trade.
Every building in the street is of modern construction, and some blocks of its brick edifices will vie in tasteful elegance with the boasted granite piles of Boston.
In traversing the next, a Parisian might forget that the broad Atlantic rolled between him and the boasted city of his nativity.
Many a boasted friend has proved a leaking, worthless "lifeboat" when the storm of adversity might make him useful.
With the terrific force with which the eagle makes its attack, the boasted king of birds is often impaled and run through on the quiet, lance-like bill of the heron.
Villa had boasted loudly that, if war came between Japan and the United States, Mexico would be found fighting for her American neighbor.
For, although he had had a French grandmother, and sometimes boasted himself of French descent, he was essentially English in his ideas.
In spite of his boasted indifference, he could not repress a slight sensation of curiosity to see one who was represented as so transcendent.
Then every warrior boasted of his prowess, and the young beaus feasted their eyes on gayly-clad maidens the while they calculated for what number of horses they could be purchased of their parents.
From that day she has boasted the right to wear three eagle feathers.
He also boasted of David's weight (a subject about which we are uncommonly touchy at the club), as if children were for throwing forth for a wager.
She also informed him (very inconsiderately), that I did not print my books myself, and this lowered me in the eyes of David, for it was for the printing he had admired me and boasted of me in the Gardens.
She took him to her heart and boasted of him; like one made young herself by the great event, she joyously dressed her pale daughter in her bridal gown, and, with smiles upon her face, she cast rice after the departing carriage.
She laughed now at the remembrance of the time when she had boasted of having "gone through all the books" in Miss Robina's class.
And then, when the first ebullitions of youthful warmth are over, what is their boasted reformation?
The latter formed its boasted scheme merely upon the plan of that barbarous policy, which composes the troubles of a turbulent land by the extermination of its inhabitants.
Small wonder that in May 1913 the Montenegrins boastedto me: "We, the Serb nation, are a danger to Europe.
Osman Bali and Mehmed Kavaja, both servants of Essad, boasted afterwards they had done the deed.
And one of the Petrovitches boasted to me that in two years no one in the conquered lands would dare speak "that dirty language" (Albanian).
Another told a friend of mine that bombthrowing had been taught at Shabatz, and a Serbian officer boasted to Lady Boyle, when she was doing Serbian relief work, that he was one of the men who taught the murderers to shoot.
Far from concealing their deeds, the conquerors boasted of them.
He was then in league with a Corfiote Greek, one Androutzos, who boasted to me in a letter that he and Ismail had advised the South against rising, and had "saved Albania.
Even Montenegrin officers openly boasted that they did not know the price of the regie tobacco as they smoked only contraband, and feeling ran so high that the Italian Monopol buildings at Antivari were attacked and damaged.
She also boasted that in July, 1883, when she slipped and fell, spraining herself so that she was obliged to remain in the house a day or two, it was the first time in her memory when she had remained in the house a day.
Cobbett boasted of having disinterred him in 1817, and of having brought his body to England; many, however, assert that Cobbett did not take that trouble, but brought over from America the remains of a criminal who had been executed.
Diderot, who boasted of the continuation of his attachment, and who, for three months past, had promised me a visit, did not come.
I had, fourteen years before, when at Venice, where I had an opportunity of remarking the defects of that government so much boasted of, conceived the first idea of them.
This hideous wretch onceboasted as her spouse a monstrous giant, whose most wicked acts for twenty leagues around had spoiled the earth.
If it do grieve thee, and thy boasted knights should care to follow, I am Taulat Lord of Rugimon; and each passing year, on this same day, will I return to do thee the like scorn.
Indeed, it was openly boasted that the secret information given to the rebel generals had been mainly the cause of the defeat of our armies at Bull Run and Manassas.
The frowning muzzle of the pistol, the unmistakable meaning of those words, and the deadly purpose expressed in the cold, calm face before him, were too much even for his boasted bravery.
He mildly banter'd him upon it, and diverted himself with raillying him for a Sensibility, which he often had boasted he would ever resist.
This Season of universal Joy, Love chose to captivate again Zeokinizul, after such an Interval of boasted Liberty.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "boasted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
