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
Gleason played the blustering bus driver Ralph Kramden.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 14, 2024
Balto led 12 other dogs through the last, blustering 53 miles of the now-famous “serum run.”
From Washington Post • Apr. 27, 2023
On camera he's a take-charge, my-words-will-blow-you-down, blustering powerhouse of a man.
From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon
