gasbag
Example Sentences
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By the next scene, we see that Little Bill has grabbed the spotlight for himself, ballooning into a gasbag of self-importance.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 2025
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
He is, thanks to his 15-year partnership with Le Batard, a completely self-aware gasbag.
From Slate • Apr. 13, 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
The wind was blowing them hard now, and the great gasbag swelled and billowed in the gusts.
From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
