Example Sentences

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The group has been bragging about hacks and sharing incomprehensible in-jokes for days.

From BBC • Sep. 3, 2025

The pharmaceutical industry has been bragging for nearly a decade now about its efforts to help cash-strapped patients pay for expensive prescription drugs.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2023

In a joint statement sent by WhatsApp on Thursday, more than a dozen Tunisian rights groups said Saied’s remarks expressed “hostility to the values of humanity and tolerance the Tunisian state has been bragging about.”

From Washington Post • Feb. 23, 2023

Kelley, who is seeking the nomination in Michigan's GOP gubernatorial primary, is facing four charges, including disorderly conduct — and he has been bragging about his arrest on the campaign trial.

From Salon • Jun. 23, 2022

He keeps telling me I ought to be writing these stories to go with his pictures, since Mrs. Lacey at school has been bragging on those things I wrote for English.

From "Missing May" by Cynthia Rylant