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
On Monday, a cold front will usher in rain and blustering winds through Wednesday, with temperatures dipping to the low 60s.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 8, 2023
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
He was a blustering, intrepid bully who brooded inconsolably over the terrible ineradicable impressions he knew he kept making on people of prominence who were scarcely aware that he was even alive.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
