How to Use boastful in a Sentence

boastful

adjective
  • The two boastful half-brothers clashed and split.
    — Gail Sheehy, Vanity Fair, 20 Feb. 2026
  • That is but a mere sampling of the boastful claims contained in the video above.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 1 Feb. 2023
  • But the mob was discreet compared to Trump’s brazen, boastful ways.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Some friends have agreed to post on one another’s behalf, so as not to appear boastful.
    — Julie Jargon, WSJ, 1 May 2021
  • Kira starts, scolding the boastful blonde for not pulling her weight at the birthday party.
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 11 Jan. 2022
  • Trump is self-centered, boastful and uncaring about the needs of others.
    — Tom Zirpoli, Baltimore Sun, 13 May 2025
  • In my family you were not allowed to be immodest or boastful.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 28 June 2024
  • Rare are the people who have heard Snyder offer boastful words about himself.
    — Joseph Goodman | [email protected], al, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Their boastful coin may have marked a high point of good feeling among Caesar’s assassins.
    — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Mar. 2022
  • His bombastic style and boastful rhetoric are something people either love or hate.
    — Kaely Monahan, The Arizona Republic, 17 July 2024
  • The key is to strike a balance between being too humble and coming across as merely boastful.
    — John Hall, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2025
  • City officials sounded boastful about it.
    — The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 10 Sep. 2025
  • And forget about boastful labels and logos in the age of quiet luxury.
    — Alesandra Dubin, Travel + Leisure, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Maybe a persona of boastful anger has something in common, and the two persona vectors overlap.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Emmanwori speaks with a matter-of-fact confidence that’s not boastful.
    — Jerry McDonald, Mercury News, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Being praised too openly can be seen as boastful, even if the employee never asked for the attention.
    — Benjamin Laker, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • In the musical number, the siblings don elaborate angel wings that are too boastful to be holy.
    — Hunter Ingram, Variety, 17 Aug. 2025
  • We have been programmed to believe that being our own advocate is boastful or distasteful as women.
    — Lauren Zajac, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2021
  • Prosecutors claimed that Barahona returned twice to the scene of the shooting and sent boastful text messages to friends.
    — Serena Lin, Austin American-Statesman, 15 May 2024
  • Over time, some officers showed a boastful disdain for parts of the population they were expected to protect.
    — Rob Picheta, CNN Money, 7 Feb. 2026
  • The result is a country that comes across to others as at once boastful about its growing power and prickly about criticism of its human-rights record.
    — Vaibhav Vats, The Atlantic, 21 May 2025
  • The empty floors upstairs are layered with boastful stickers such as the one about the building’s A-plus air filtration system.
    — Conor Dougherty, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Dec. 2022
  • Follow up with clear documentation and updates so your efforts are visible but not boastful.
    — Sho Dewan, Forbes.com, 27 Jan. 2026
  • The empty floors upstairs are layered with boastful stickers like the one about the building’s A-plus air filtration system.
    — Emma Goldberg Aaron Wojack, New York Times, 17 Dec. 2022
  • At Fresno, coach Mike Batesole would fine players who used I or me in boastful conversation.
    — Sean Gregory, Time, 6 Dec. 2022
  • In Greek mythology, Orion was a powerful and talented hunter who incurred the wrath of the gods for being too boastful about his own skills.
    — Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Some in Gonzales County dismiss the online discussions as boastful rhetoric.
    — Guillermo Contreras, San Antonio Express-News, 12 Mar. 2021
  • Adhering to the austere values of rural New England, the message is welcoming but not boastful.
    — Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2021
  • The lyrics describe life for many blue-collar Americans at that time, and the chorus exudes proud patriotism without being boastful.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 July 2022
  • The reputation that Rickey Henderson engendered over his decades in the game was of a proud and often boastful player.
    — Sam Blum, The Athletic, 22 Dec. 2024

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