Sentence examples for make a boast from inspiring English sources

At least one other company that avoided the fast track, Abebooks.com, has been able to make a boast that few -- if any -- online retailers can: it was profitable from Day 1, according to Brent James, chief executive of Abebooks.com.com

"High birth is a thing I never knew anyone to disparage except those who had it not," a 19th-century Tayloe had written, quoting the 18th-century critic and churchman Bishop William Warburton, "and I never knew anyone to make a boast of it who had anything else to be proud of".

The president makes a boast of being "normal", when the times require exception.

No one claimed responsibility or even made a boast, and there is not one terrorist in the world that isn't an attention whore.

If Ed Miliband were to make a similar boast, he would be laughed out of town.

They paid each other little mind, coming together only to make an occasional boast.

Rodriguez made a similar boast a year ago, when he signed with the Florida Marlins, another team that was down on its luck.

"Al Qaeda has no one who is qualified from a Sharia perspective to make a response," Fadl boasted to Al Hayat.

Its leaders make a point of boasting about its uncompromising stance if Polish interests are at stake.

But yesterday, the Washington Post reported that CIA officials gave the go-ahead to AP to report the story, based in part on the fact that the administration itself planned to make a formal announcement boasting of their success in thwarting the plot.

How many sportswriters could make such a boast?