blustered
Example Sentences
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Over a grinding week in January, McCarthy bartered, bargained and blustered his way into the powerful speaker’s office with the history-making spectacle of 14 failed votes.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 1, 2023
From the moment he blustered his way onto the political stage, Donald Trump defied expectations.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2023
It shows a violent blast of wind, and streaks of rain, beating a dun-colored landscape, as if a summer thunderstorm had missed its cue in June and blustered in six months later.
From Washington Post • Jan. 1, 2020
Newspapers howled, commentators pontificated, politicians blustered – and perhaps that was the point.
From The Guardian • Sep. 16, 2019
He had blustered and complained about Ulbrickson right along with Shorty and Roger, but now that he was alone the bluster faded and the old weight of anxiety and self-doubt settled on him again.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
