How to Use braggart in a Sentence

braggart

noun
  • Clayton is cool and kind and a big braggart.
    — Wendy Paris, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2026
  • Woody had a braggart streak made gleefully macabre by his crystal-meth pipe.
    — Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2021
  • Still, Kimmel never came off as a braggart.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Both stateside and abroad, Neri was a workhorse but never a braggart.
    — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Oct. 2021
  • But as is the nature of humble-braggarts, most don’t actually mean it.
    — Hilary Cadigan, Bon Appétit, 14 Aug. 2019
  • An impressive braggart, Weist isn’t trying to come off as a father figure.
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 27 Aug. 2019
  • Christ did do some name calling, but his ire was directed at the powerful, the braggarts, the hypocrites — the Pratts of his time.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2026
  • Imagine if the generative AI was programmed to be a braggart.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
  • What do the words politicaster, mongrel, and braggart have in common?
    — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 June 2018
  • The show has its share of braggarts and trash talkers, which makes Garrett's quiet humility a welcome contrast.
    — Jim Stingl, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Jan. 2018
  • At this stage, there is no reason not to; Scotty does not seem remotely like a braggart or someone desperate for a sliver of late-in-life fame.
    — Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Sep. 2017
  • Johnson—in this, like Trump—acts as a showman, a braggart, and a clown in order to rule without real responsibility.
    — Matt Seaton, The New York Review of Books, 22 May 2021
  • Morrissey understands the snotty, cowardly nature of media braggarts as well as those who envy the commanding heights.
    — Armond White, National Review, 29 Apr. 2020
  • Mayweather is the money-minded braggart whose custom Rolls-Royce limousine is lined with chinchilla fur carpeting.
    — Greg Cote, miamiherald, 17 June 2017
  • Researchers also studied real-life workplace braggarts and found their colleagues often perceived them negatively.
    — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 28 May 2024
  • Rogow described his client as a natural braggart whose claims of insider information didn’t match reality.
    — Michael Balsamo, Time, 12 Nov. 2019
  • Rogow described his client as a natural braggart whose claims of insider information didn't match reality.
    — Ashraf Kahlil, sun-sentinel.com, 6 Nov. 2019
  • Until recently, Ford was the reigning braggart, with its Power Stroke diesel making 1050 pound-feet of torque.
    — David Beard, Car and Driver, 5 Feb. 2021
  • His shaky self-confidence appears to be improving, and Collum -- who’s far from a braggart -- has quietly assumed an early lead in this grueling competition.
    — Mary Colurso | [email protected], al, 12 Feb. 2020
  • The remark helps endear Margaret to Johnson, who proceeds to gratuitously mock the 35th president as a callow braggart.
    — Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 17 Nov. 2019
  • Shaq escalated his verbal slap fight with basketball dad and serial braggart LaVar Ball by dropping a surprisingly entertaining diss track.
    — Gabrielle Bruney, Esquire, 29 July 2017

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