vaunted

in a sentence

At a word and a whim from my father all my vaunted power blew away.†  (source) Madeline Miller, Circe, 2018

We sit down in a booth by the window, next to the vaunted parking lot.†  (source) Gayle Forman, Where She Went, 2011

Sarai had studied offworld for two years at the University of New Lyons on Deneb Drei, but she was homesick there: the sunsets were abrupt, the much-vaunted mountains slicing off the sunlight like a ragged scythe, and she longed for the hours-long sunsets of home where Barnard's Star hung on the horizon like a great, tethered, red balloon while the sky congealed to evening.†  (source) Dan Simmons, Hyperion, 1989

I knew Manhattan only at street level, fitfully, and felt a little isolated, and the place scared me with its knowingness, its offhand vaunt, a style of mind and guise that can be harder to learn than some dialect of the Transvaal.†  (source) Don DeLillo, Underworld, 1997

Beneath his ejection seat a tape recorder was making a continuous record of the signal characteristics of the American aircraft so that the scientific people would be able to devise a means of jamming and foiling the vaunted American flying eye.†  (source) Tom Clancy, The Hunt for Red October, 1984

It's easy enough now, on the highspeed road in a dependable and comfortable car, with stopping places for shade and every service station vaunting its refrigeration.†  (source) John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley, 1962

A far-off land each man should visit who vaunts him brave.†  (source) Author Unknown, Beowulf, 1900

As I understand it, charity vaunteth not itself.†  (source) Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, 1969

Proud vaunter—thou wouldst hide thy brow,—And at her feet sink down with shame.†  (source) Goethe (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe), Faust -- Part 1, 1833

But I, since thou thus much vauntest thy favors, think that Venus alone both of Gods and men was the protectress of my voyage.†  (source) Euripides, Medea, -431 B.C.

For it is not for what I have put into it that I have written this book, Nor is it by reading it you will acquire it, Nor do those know me best who admire me and vauntingly praise me, Nor will the candidates for my love (unless at most a very few) prove victorious, Nor will my poems do good only, they will do just as much evil, perhaps more, For all is useless without that which you may guess at many times and not hit, that which I hinted at; Therefore release me and depart on your way.†  (source) Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855

Spit in the fire if thou must vaunt thy courage.†  (source) Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls, 1940

"Get out of here!" shrieked the vaunted professor of law, his eyes wild.†  (source) Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Ultimatum, 1990