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Example sentences for "gloats"

Lexicographically close words:
gloaming; gloat; gloated; gloating; gloatingly; glob; global; globe; globed; globes
  1. On the contrary, he gloats over the disgrace which, he declared, on this account fell upon the Gunning family.

  2. The shop-girl gloats over "The Earl's Bride; or, The Heiress of Plantagenet Park.

  3. Ortrud recognizes the chain around its neck and gloats over her triumph; but Lohengrin hears her shout.

  4. She gloats over each incident with a horrible relish, and adds, with no unsparing brush, a heightened color to each picture.

  5. Whatsoever a man thinketh in his heart, whatsoever pictures he makes his own, whatsoever pictures he gloats over with joy and satisfaction, these things reveal the true personality.

  6. She is left for a moment with Tonio, who gloats over his revenge.

  7. Amneris gloats over her rival's subjection, Rhadames longs for Aida but dare not oppose the king, and the heroine bemoans her fate.

  8. He is amused by the antics of the brute dreaming within his breast; he gloats on his passionate reveries, an amusement which sometimes costs him very dear.

  9. So the mystic also positively gloats on his own nothingness, and puts his whole genuine being in a fancied instrumentality and subordination to something else.


  10. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gloats" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.