Examples of gloat in a Sentence

Verb After such a tough campaign, they're gloating over their victory in the election.

Recent Examples on the Web: Verb Outside the party, employees of an Axie competitor couldn't help but gloat over cigarettes. — Jon Sarlin, CNN, 3 Apr. 2022 Surely, there is a seat reserved in hell for those who gloat over the closing of a bookstore. — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 17 Mar. 2022 Reynolds didn’t gloat, instead taking pleasure that the doctor kept him on his holiday party guestlists. — Joe Swickard, Detroit Free Press, 5 Mar. 2022 Freeman, meanwhile, would later gloat to colleagues that Bainum was never serious about buying the newspapers and just wanted to bask in the worshipful media coverage his bid generated. — Mckay Coppins, The Atlantic, 14 Oct. 2021 In the other, the Giants get to the World Series and beat the Astros, then their fans gloat about doing something the Dodgers couldn’t. — Houston Mitchell Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2021 Governor Charlie Baker’s administration opted not to gloat about the victory. — BostonGlobe.com, 28 June 2021 There’s another reason not to gloat: The Mountain West needs the Lobos to be good. — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Feb. 2021 Few politicians are making the rounds to gloat on state television about how things are turning Russia’s way. — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2020 Recent Examples on the Web: Noun But Democrats shouldn’t fear, nor Republicans gloat, that this means the end of the Biden agenda. — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 7 June 2021 The person who finds the pickle gets to open the first present, and gloat about it until the next year. — Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 16 Nov. 2020 Having just won his boss a stonking 87-seat majority, Mr Cummings may have been unable to resist a little gloat. — The Economist, 18 Jan. 2020 That vacation gloat so many of us succumb to on social media has trickled upward, as the president made a sort-of joke about how a little global warming might actually be appreciated for those Americans enduring the cold temperatures. — Kaitlin Menza, Esquire, 29 Dec. 2017 See More

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