Sentence examples for having once boasted from inspiring English sources

Having once boasted that he had no reverse gear, Mr Blair was always likely to find one.

While living in a tough Oakland neighbourhood, he had once boasted that he could lean out his window and 'see the news'.

In 2012, they set free county prisoners they could no longer afford to house, and a sheriff's department that had once boasted 30 deputies was reduced to six.

Early the next morning, we toured this town that had once boasted 72 towers, practically a medieval Manhattan.

He was also a big fan of cricket and could boast of having once dismissed WG Grace while playing for the MCC.

Her relentless exhibitionism (she boasts of having once masturbated on an Austrian television show) makes Madonna's most flamboyant ploys for attention seem demure.

Ian and Matthew are huddled together at a table upstairs at Via, one of the many late-night haunts in Manchester that likes to boast of having once appeared on Coronation Street.

"Every Way That I Can" is an exotic belly-dancing tune that was sung in English by Sertab Erener, an established Turkish star whose biggest prior boast was having once sung a duet with Ricky Martin.

"Could any man have written it," Byron once boasted to his banker friend, Kinnaird, about "Don Juan", "who has not lived in the world?

But the Tabqa Dam, which the government once boasted had made Syria self-sufficient in power generation, is considered a more potent weapon in the battle for allegiances in the nearly two-year-old Syria conflict.

But it seems remarkably modest for a company that was run by an empire-building chief executive, Ron Sommer, who once boasted of having a $100 billion war chest for deals around the world.