blustering

Example Sentences

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Blustering Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has never been known for tact, and many were surprised when May made him Britain’s top diplomat.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 7, 2017

Blustering, threatening and reasoning, probing for weak spots and grasping at straws, the Prime Ministers of Great Britain and Rhodesia played out their desperate bluffing game last week.

From Time Magazine Archive

Blustering, driving, he makes his own decisions, rapidly follows them out.

From Time Magazine Archive

Blustering sergeant finds cigaret case initialed J. S. "A plant," sneers John Smith, master detective, who has appeared suddenly in their midst.

From Time Magazine Archive

Blustering weather in this month yet.—And that is bad for rheumatic complaints.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 4 by Richardson, Samuel