blustering

Example Sentences

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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 • Feb. 13, 2026

Gleason played the blustering bus driver Ralph Kramden.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 14, 2024

In “The Exhibitionist,” a family lives in the shadow of a blustering, egotistic, once important painter.

From New York Times • Jul. 5, 2023

He arrives in Venice not as a blustering leader but more as man of the people, and vulnerable.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2023

Spring came with blustering winds and torn clouds of rain and for Wang Lung the half-idle days of winter were plunged into long days of desperate labor over his land.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck