gasbag

Example Sentences

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At its least attractive, you may grimly flash on the last gasbag you were stuck next to while waiting on some interminable line.

From New York Times • Jun. 23, 2022

Willy is a man of flagrant dishonesty and crude habits: Farting and belching on-screen, he’s a literal and figurative gasbag.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 19, 2018

As Simpson, Cuba Gooding, Jr., captures the football star’s gasbag egotism but falls short of the regal charisma that drew people to him.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 8, 2016

Over the past 20 years, I have worked on and off as a writer, a regular guest on Classic Sports Reporters, and a recurring consultant and on-air gasbag for SportsCentury and other shows.

From Slate • Jun. 1, 2011

My sisters and I had watched the program every Saturday afternoon, our gasbag of a collie imposing frequent intermissions.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris