bluster

Example Sentences

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Logan is hale and full of bluster in his limo on the way to his flight, giving no hint as to what’s coming.

From Salon

Thereupon nuclear bluster permanently vanished from the U.S. presidential vocabulary, experts in diplomacy tell us, for reasons that boil down to a loss of credibility once Moscow could match the U.S. in nuclear firepower.

From The Wall Street Journal

Being next to Columbia, Olaf had tried many times to get him to argue or bluster but Columbia always ignored him.

From Literature

He argued that while Duterte used "bluster and hyperbole" in his speeches, he also frequently ordered authorities only to shoot in self-defence.

From Barron's

Students treat institutional rituals as a farce and openly mock their principal - calling him Yamdoot after the Hindu god of death - a blustering figure who addresses them as "My dear donkey".

From BBC