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An instance of boastful talk.

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      Examples for "crow"
      Examples for "crow"
      1
      She'll crow for days about the fact that I finally needed it.
      James Potter and the Curse of the Gatekeeper
      2
      Male and female house crow look alike, although males are slightly larger.
      The Guardian
      3
      Fifteen miles as the crow flies is the usual limit of vision.
      Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
      4
      He had half the crow and hawk nests in the swamp located.
      Freckles
      5
      Off in the checkered shadows of the forest a crow cawed derisively.
      Diane of the Green Van
      1
      Other topics best avoided include boasting about the kids, politics and religion.
      Independent.ie
      2
      Young forward Jonathan Freeman kicked four, with the Lions boasting 11 goalkickers.
      The Guardian
      3
      Then they spent the remainder of the year boasting of the achievement.
      The Story of a Pioneer
      4
      The creature was boasting, but Sharn-igon could believe the story easily enough.
      Jem
      5
      Despite boasting one of the best scoring margins in the nation, No.
      Reuters
      1
      It brings a certain credibility, authority and a confident swagger to proceedings.
      BBC
      2
      His manner was changed; there was something of a swagger in it.
      In a glass darkly
      3
      Morrison, playing with an increasing swagger, soon took control of the match.
      The Guardian
      4
      Men who make money rarely saunter; men who save money rarely swagger.
      "My Novel" — Volume 11
      5
      When the pair returned the deputy seemed to have lost his swagger.
      The High School Boys in Summer Camp
      1
      Users, however, routinely brag they can use the system to drive hands-free.
      Reuters
      2
      Sorry to brag but our Christmas tree is absolutely gorgeous this year!
      The Irish Times
      3
      However, Bellarmine's vacant attempts to brag about his wealth fell incredibly short.
      The South African
      4
      The more we paid for it the louder the owner would brag.
      The Ivory Trail
      5
      You didn't overstate the fact in your brag about the political graves.
      The Grafters
      1
      He'd been bragging all week about how great his sonar gizmo was.
      Anvil Gate
      2
      I am not bragging of it; I am only stating a fact.
      Our Friend John Burroughs
      3
      She's been bragging to my other cousins all week that you're coming.
      Rakes and radishes
      4
      But it is an opportunity for the supporters to get bragging rights.
      The Guardian
      5
      If I were in your place I'd go around bragging about it.
      We Can't Have Everything: A Novel
      1
      And, at one level at least, their crowing was easy to understand.
      The Irish Times
      2
      He laughed; a high, chuckling, crowing laugh; the laugh of triumphant optimism.
      In the Year of Jubilee
      3
      It was morning now; the cock was still crowing down at Sirilund.
      Pan
      4
      From somewhere outside, she heard a crowing sound and looked up expectantly.
      Hook
      5
      The animals were in the southeast corner, mooing and crowing and baying.
      The Maze Runner
      1
      His bluster and gasconade desert him, and leave him in pitiful case.
      French and English: A Story of the Struggle in America
      2
      That they were captured by the Indian seems too much of a gasconade.
      Life of George Washington — Volume 01
      3
      This gasconade made the whole court laugh, even Catherine.
      Catherine De Medici
      4
      We hear of no gasconade on her part.
      The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10)
      5
      I love their jolly abandon of manner, their kindness and "honesty," and their gasconade.
      From Edinburgh to India & Burmah
      1
      No doubt there was plentiful vaporing, and cases of backsliding might occur.
      Essays — Second Series
      2
      But these South Carolina economists are better at vaporing than at calculation.
      The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 / A Maga...
      3
      Sir, there has been a good deal of vaporing on this subject.
      American Eloquence, Volume 3 / Studies In American Political His...
      4
      In truth, mere vaporing hurt nobody, and caused no great alarm.
      The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861 / A Magazi...
      5
      We call it by every name of fleeting, dreaming, vaporing imagery.
      Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
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