Example Sentences
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So gloats the puckish Wanderer, a narrator figure, checking in with the audience partway through the rollicking klezmer musical “Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story.”
From Washington Post • Sep. 12, 2022
After "Live and Let Die" villain Dr. Kananga balloons and explodes from ingesting a gas pellet, Roger Moore's Bond gloats, "He always did have an inflated opinion of himself."
From Salon • Nov. 27, 2021
My husband doesn’t believe me, and she even gloats about that.
From Slate • Nov. 3, 2020
But when he gloats about killing a rhinoceros, displaying the carcass on his phone, her placid demeanor cracks and a war of wits ensues with race, inequality and immigration at its core.
From New York Times • Aug. 19, 2017
But the voice gloats back, “Urgente,” and Tatica must obey.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
