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
On Thursday in northern Los Angeles County, wind gusts peaked at 56 mph at Lake Palmdale, with blustering winds recorded along the Central Coast and into the Antelope Valley, the weather service said.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 18, 2024
Gleason played the blustering bus driver Ralph Kramden.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 14, 2024
In “The Exhibitionist,” a family lives in the shadow of a blustering, egotistic, once important painter.
From New York Times • Jul. 5, 2023
“I worry that your father’s blustering about Erudite has been to your detriment.”
From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth
