Example Sentences

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"The voices are gloating at the trouble they have got him into here," he said.

From BBC • May 8, 2024

Inside the room, Shiv and Kendall are gloating.

From Salon • Apr. 3, 2023

With humor and pride, Russians are gloating over their athletes’ many medals this summer despite a prohibition on national symbols at the Tokyo Summer Olympics — a punishment for egregious past doping infractions.

From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2021

Deploying the 101st Airborne to enforce the integration of Little Rock High School in 1957, he warned that “our enemies are gloating over this incident and using it everywhere to misrepresent our whole nation.”

From New York Times • Sep. 16, 2020

German newspapers are gloating over the fact that the British Government has not deigned to reply to these "revelations."

From What Germany Thinks The War as Germans see it by Smith, Thomas F. A.