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Example sentences for "gloat"

Lexicographically close words:
glittered; glittering; glitters; gloam; gloaming; gloated; gloating; gloatingly; gloats; glob
  1. The vile crew whom our ancestors drove howling and naked across the Danube, in undisturbed apathy gloat over our dearest treasures.

  2. Why will my heart, like a hungry thing, gloat on the happiness of others?

  3. He found gratification in spreading them out to gloat over, but I think his chief joy was in the collecting.

  4. The ex-pugilist had come to gloat over him.

  5. Whitford told Stevens to bring in the fifty-five-dollar suit so that he could gloat over it.

  6. I am neither a stranger to the world nor your cowardly designs; and so long as I have life you shall not gloat over the destruction of my virtue.

  7. We bow before the shrine of midnight revelry; we bring licentiousness to our homes, but we turn a deaf ear to the cries of poverty, and we gloat over the sale of men.

  8. The Japanese men are anti-dancers from necessity of costume, if nothing else, and the effect is much the same as elsewhere under the same conditions the women dance, the men gloat and the gods grieve.

  9. Tis as easy to fix attention on a sonnet of Shakspeare while working at whist as gloat upon your partner while waltzing.

  10. Perhaps he wished first to gloat over me.

  11. Yuri had come to gloat over me and to give in my presence his directions for my discomfiture.

  12. We are, if I may use the word, rather prone to gloat over it, and, while continually congratulating ourselves and each other, we cannot but mourn the infrequency of such happiness throughout our Italian nobility.

  13. Every Sunday during that period did I visit the gaol to gloat upon his miseries.

  14. I had expected to gloat over a certain dewiness of her eyes, a patient drooping of her lips.

  15. The successful gloat over and glory in their achievements, and extend a cursory hand to those below as if they were fulfilling the ten commandments as a great finale of their extravaganza.

  16. I shall take more than a languid interest in watching you progress with this smiling sphinx," said Stanton, "and in the mean time shall gloat over my picture.

  17. He held her from him and looked at her as a miser might gloat over his treasure.

  18. I leave those to gloat who are in the gloat business.

  19. Others may gloat over these efforts to injure you, but I do not.

  20. No trace of flinching did they give for their enemies to gloat over--no sign of weakness which could take from the effect of their deathless words.

  21. I never gloat over doing such an easy job as that was.

  22. You, young fellow--I suppose you're here to gloat over me and to try to collect your five thousand.

  23. Any other woman might have it, but not this hypocrite, who had been waiting for years to gloat over her downfall.

  24. Yes, she knew--and now seemed to gloat over that which once had shocked and revolted her.

  25. You can gloat over bonds as much as you like, but not a clink can you get out of them.

  26. Or, if they exist, they go away to a safety deposit vault, get their bonds and gloat over them.

  27. He wanted his gold pieces near at hand, so that he could fetch them out at any hour, clink them together and gloat over them.

  28. Oh for a light, that I might open it and gloat without delay over its thrice-blessed contents!

  29. He sha'n't gloat over you, an' you like this.

  30. A favourite pastime was to visit the torture-chamber and gloat over the sufferings of the victims of the knout and the strappado; or to attend (and frequently to officiate at) public executions.

  31. I'll kill myself rather than confess I love him, and let him gloat over his conquest.

  32. My advice to you is not to take any further risks, and not to attempt to gloat over Don Carlos.

  33. He will come back to make mock of me, to gloat over me.

  34. It was two o'clock before he returned to his lonely rooms to gloat over the picture and its promise of the future meeting.

  35. And then he stole cat-like up the stairs to gloat over the contents of the bank portmanteau.

  36. Then he would gloat over the pins as they skipped about the maps.

  37. The boat with the message so false has gone to Holland for the German Kaiser to gloat over, and the filthy spy is in the safe lock-up.

  38. Give him some heavy losses to gloat over and to tempt him out of harbour.

  39. Of course a meeting was forthwith assembled to gloat over the auspicious event.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gloat" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bore; crane; crow; delight; exult; eye; gape; gawk; gaze; glare; gloat; glory; goggle; joy; look; peer; stare; triumph