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
Eilish is frightened, but when Larry returns later he dismisses her fears, blustering that he won’t “hop, skip, and jump” to the commands of the “GNSB.”
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2023
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
In “The Exhibitionist,” a family lives in the shadow of a blustering, egotistic, once important painter.
From New York Times • Jul. 5, 2023
And I can’t help but feel that Whitman, for all his blustering beauty, might have been just a bit too optimistic.
From "Paper Towns" by John Green
