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
Gleason played the blustering bus driver Ralph Kramden.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 14, 2024
Balto led 12 other dogs through the last, blustering 53 miles of the now-famous “serum run.”
From Washington Post • Apr. 27, 2023
A multinational corporation intent on protecting franchises that bring it more than $80 billion a year has thus far made its adversary look like a blustering nincompoop.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2023
An impersonation of the pompous, blustering second lieutenant.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
