crowing

Example Sentences

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It was first to publicly announce an end to the exchange with Israel and avoided crowing about the downing of the Apache as it had when other American aircraft were shot down.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

While crowing about its Pentagon projects, IonQ hasn’t highlighted that the majority of them weren’t funded in the last two federal budgets, Wolfpack says.

From Barron's • Feb. 4, 2026

The following month the same newspaper was crowing:

From BBC • Aug. 4, 2025

It will never lose its potency as a crowing statement of devotion.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2025

Each day, Father Monaghan finds some modicum of peace in nature: the singing of morning birds, the distant crowing of roosters, the sun shining through mango trees.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly