have vaunted

• present perfect

  present perfect

  Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.

  of vaunt.
  vaunt

  verb (used with object)

  to speak vaingloriously of; boast of.

Example Sentences

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have vaunted

You have vaunted her beauty and never crowned it.

From Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard by Eleanor Farjeon

It is not just to depreciate the merit of one, who, had he been of our nation, we should have vaunted as a hero.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 05 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Robert Kerr

For long I shall be dear to my race because my lyre has uttered good sentiments, because, in a brutal age, I have vaunted liberty and preached love for the down-trodden.

From Initiation into Literature by Sir Home Gordon, Bart.

The technique of the brothers Van Eyck is a marvel, but I cannot discover in their Adoration of the Lamb the charm and mystery that some have vaunted.

From Anatole France The Revolt of the Angels by Anatole France

Oh that thou wert but with me! but I grow The fool of my own wishes, and forget The solitude which I have vaunted so Has lost its praise in this but one regret.

From The Friendships of Women by William Rounseville Alger

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