Sentence examples for congratulated themselves for from inspiring English sources
How proudly the editors must have congratulated themselves for rushing it in and making the deadline.
Council members congratulated themselves for passing one of the nation's most aggressive wage hikes.
At this stage, most people would have congratulated themselves for their good deed and beat a hasty retreat home.
As America struggled to clean up the mess left by Enron and other corporate scandals, Europeans congratulated themselves for mostly avoiding such wretched excesses.
Democrats congratulated themselves for weathering the second straight year of austerity measures without resorting to broad-based tax increases or crippling service cuts.
Spanish banks initially congratulated themselves for not having invested in the U.S. subprime mortgages that sparked the world financial crisis, but the subsequent Spanish property slump has proved to have a devastating effect on their balance sheets.
Newspapers occasionally publish ads congratulating themselves for various achievements.
They laughed, congratulating themselves for having "slaughtered them".
Nine years later Mr Bernanke's peers are congratulating themselves for delivering on that promise.
"Suleimani completely outmaneuvered them, and in public they were congratulating themselves for putting the government together".
Meanwhile, senators congratulate themselves for getting back to the business of governing.
