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

Forecasters issued dire warnings about trying to drive through blustering winds and whiteout conditions, and Yosemite National Park was closed.

From New York Times • Mar. 1, 2024

That’s quite the change from the blustering, kill-’em-all Viking who led the last installment of Ubisoft’s venerable franchise.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 1, 2023

For nearly three years now, I’ve been fascinated by the performance art of this blustering pettifogger.

From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 2023

With that, he turned to Perrington and began speaking too quietly for anyone else to hear in the blustering wind.

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas