Example Sentences

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And when you lose, as you will from time to time, I hope every now and then, your opponent will gloat over your failure.

From Time • Jul. 5, 2017

The audience will gloat, not shiver, when a character says: "I'll get you for this, Logan, if it takes me twenty years"; or, "Wong, you'll pay for this."

From Time Magazine Archive

There, we will leave a memento over which the admirable Dr. Jones will gloat his philosophical soul.

From Unknown to History: a story of the captivity of Mary of Scotland by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

A learned group of dons will gloat At a fool's last word in a high priest's throat.

From The Miracle Songs of Jesus by MacDonald, Wilson

However, the more vulgar a nature is the more it will gloat on gossip; and herein the most pretentious of the higher classes show themselves no better than the basest.

From Memoirs by Leland, Charles Godfrey