vaporing
Example Sentences
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The press was busy vaporing upon the significance of a de Valera free to roam the Free State.
From Time Magazine Archive
Apparently the only contribution Fiver could make was this beetle-spirited vaporing.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
Must not the vaporing Burgoyne, who, it is said, possesses great sensibility, be humbled to the dust?
From Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams by Adams, Abigail
"Gifford was brought up in a bad school—a vaporing fellow, not true to any of his obligations," said Mr. Oliver Smith.
From The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax by Lee, Holme, [pseud.]
The little man, with all his vaporing, his windy boasts, his general utter worthlessness, had at bottom a grain of something genuine which keen Ike Byloe lacked.
From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 by Various
