gasbag
Example Sentences
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Well, shoot, I’m proud to be a gasbag and, as we parade into the darkness having changed the American sports media landscape forever, at least I can finally say unequivocally, “It’s …”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2025
I posited to Stugotz that if he hadn’t met Le Batard, that’s who he would be now—not a self-aware gasbag, but just a 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
It’s cited out of context all the time as a pearl of genuine wisdom, but in the playing it’s traditionally rendered as just one of the many aphorisms spouted by an old gasbag.
From New York Times ● Dec. 31, 2010
He left the basket, the rigging, and the gasbag where they lay, tangled and twisted among the branches.
From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman
