How do you use Bragging in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like crowing or crow, plus the exact meaning.
Bragging in a sentence
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Bragging meaning
The act of one who brags.
Synonyms of Bragging
Using Bragging
- The main meaning on this page is: The act of one who brags.
- Useful related words include: crowing, gasconade, line-shooting, vaporing.
- In the example corpus, bragging often appears in combinations such as: bragging rights, bragging about, and bragging.
Context around Bragging
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 8 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Bragging
- In this selection, "bragging" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, statement, gets, champagne and rights stand out and add context to how "bragging" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a statement bragging on my and and also bragging rights. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "bragging" sits close to words such as adidas, analyse and appalled, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with bragging
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
I'm not bragging I busted my ass for 45 years. (11 words)
He showed up drunk and high (obviously slurring and bragging about it). (12 words)
Essays should subtly highlight your outstanding qualities without bragging, which would be gauche. (13 words)
E. Jean Carroll, the former columnist who sued Trump for defamation after he denied raping her in a department store dressing room in the 1990s, wants to include as evidence the 2005 video of Trump bragging to host Billy Bush about groping women. (43 words)
As the stables iron out the necessary paperwork to have their horses entered, the focus is to prepare their charges to optimum level for top class performances and a share of the attractive prize packages on offer and also bragging rights. (41 words)
A bit of D.I.Y. definitely feels exciting, in that A) you have the time to do something yourself, and B) you get to share and enjoy the results of your work (not to mention the bragging rights). (39 words)
But who gets bragging rights when it comes to spending the least amount of money each month? (17 words)
Example sentences (20)
Bragging about the number of tests performed alone could be a bit like bragging about the number of times that you’ve had to change your underwear because you keep soiling them.
A bit of D.I.Y. definitely feels exciting, in that A) you have the time to do something yourself, and B) you get to share and enjoy the results of your work (not to mention the bragging rights).
After the jobs report came out, Biden released a statement bragging, “On my watch, we have achieved better growth and lower inflation than any other advanced country.
And Barrett had no interest in bragging about his preseason prediction, either, or reminding the experts how wrong they got his team.
As she points out: “Whoever gets there first will get both bragging rights and the pick of where to go.
As the stables iron out the necessary paperwork to have their horses entered, the focus is to prepare their charges to optimum level for top class performances and a share of the attractive prize packages on offer and also bragging rights.
Bragging about it on Twitter like they just seized a 10,000 pound shipment of fentanyl from Mexico smuggled inside condoms inside of live tarantulas is a several levels of escalation from that.
But I can’t wrap my head around bragging about that ignorance as if it’s some sort of flex when it just comes across as condescending, and like he’s minimizing her accomplishments to put her down.
But the actor clearly said that she does not feel like bragging about her social work.
But who gets bragging rights when it comes to spending the least amount of money each month?
Christopher Kirkby, 35 – along with Thomas Durden, 36, and Marc Ward, 36 – sold drugs such as Xanax and other benzodiazepines and blew the money on Dom Perignon, Cristal and Bollinger Champagne, bragging about their lavish lifestyles on social media.
E. Jean Carroll, the former columnist who sued Trump for defamation after he denied raping her in a department store dressing room in the 1990s, wants to include as evidence the 2005 video of Trump bragging to host Billy Bush about groping women.
Essays should subtly highlight your outstanding qualities without bragging, which would be gauche.
Getting close to the lunar south pole is important not just for bragging rights.
Having achieved the volunteering hours required for the award Taylor is now working on the 900 more to reach her goal, ‘‘because I like to help people and to have bragging rights at St John’’, she said.
He added: “It also didnt help that Marie was bragging about her PPP loan and in the same sentence said f students.
He showed up drunk and high (obviously slurring and bragging about it).
I'm not bragging I busted my ass for 45 years.
In that recording, the then-reality TV star could be heard bragging about sexually assaulting women.
It's a significant measuring stick for both teams, and it could serve as an all-important tiebreaker atop the NFC playoff picture: Home-field advantage, a first-round bye, and bragging rights are all on the line.
Common combinations with bragging
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: