blustered
Example Sentences
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When they didn’t, he blustered over the course of half a dozen hearings, at one point threatening to bulldoze Brentwood’s pool or fill it with sand.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2024
Over a grinding week in January, McCarthy bartered, bargained and blustered his way into the powerful speaker’s office with the history-making spectacle of 14 failed votes.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 1, 2023
It shows a violent blast of wind, and streaks of rain, beating a dun-colored landscape, as if a summer thunderstorm had missed its cue in June and blustered in six months later.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 1, 2020
He may be willing to make some genuine concessions for this; an improvement on past talks where Pyongyang has blustered and ultimately offered little more than a return to the status quo.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 21, 2018
“Why he killed them? Well, that’s no mystery, is it?” blustered Fudge.
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
