Sentence examples for a boast that from inspiring English sources

And women," a boast that would be correct only if uttered by George Cukor.

But when it doesn't, it reeks of tokenism and false promise: a boast that is in danger of seeming idle.

Many here say they are ready to take up arms on the Afghans' behalf -- a boast that may prove idle, but may not.

On one of her many studies of Tennyson she inscribed a boast that would make a nice epitaph: "A column of grandeur — done by my will against his will".

"I will show you fear in a handful of dust," wrote T. S. Eliot, a boast that will seem unduly modest once you have seen "Dust," Hartmut Bitomsky's eccentric and profoundly informative documentary.

Pedro Passos Coelho's Portugal Ahead coalition had indeed campaigned on the slogan "Austerity Works", a boast that was bolstered by the country's rising rate of growth and falling unemployment in the wake of the €78bn bailout agreed in 2011.

"I'm going platinum," he snarled, delivering an old boast that is now an understatement.

We know that's not a Groucho line, typically an overwrought boast that dissolves into wordplay.

One answer: the corporate statement wasn't quite a definitive boast that everything is très jolie under the bonnet.

But it's a sorry boast that Knowsley has some of the country's best-run food banks.

A fly-fisherman might boast that a trout sipping a spinner is the most subtle take in all of angling.