blustering
Example Sentences
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His blustering threats, alternating with claims of imminent peace and victory, are doubted by friends and foe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
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
“All right, Mongo’s home, Chicago!” bellowed the blustering Bear with long black hair tucked under his baseball cap.
From Seattle Times ● May 31, 2024
In “The Exhibitionist,” a family lives in the shadow of a blustering, egotistic, once important painter.
From New York Times ● Jul. 5, 2023
Colonel Cathcart declared with blustering wrath, whirling to confront Yossarian for the first time.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
