- present participle of bluster.
blustering
Example Sentences
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Max Frumes and Sujeet Indap sketch the shifting alliances and blustering personalities that made this one of the most notorious Chapter 11 cases of the 21st century.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 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
That’s quite the change from the blustering, kill-’em-all Viking who led the last installment of Ubisoft’s venerable franchise.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 1, 2023
In “The Exhibitionist,” a family lives in the shadow of a blustering, egotistic, once important painter.
From New York Times ● Jul. 5, 2023
The blustering hare was quite a kindly creature really, all bark and no bite at all.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
