bluster

Morgan and Quinn took a serious approach to their business, despite the bling and celebrity bluster.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026

On Monday night, he vented his own frustration over the fair’s failure through his typical defensive bluster.

From Slate ● Jul. 1, 2026

Suddenly, China’s stated mission to put people on the moon before 2030 seems less like bluster.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026

The performances are all from the grip-and-grin school of acting: neat and precise with a minimum of bluster.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026

He had been prepared to lie, to bluster, to remain sullenly unresponsive; but, reassured by the good-humoured intelligence of the Controller’s face, he decided to tell the truth, straightforwardly.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

Mr. Xi blusters about Taiwan because he can’t say what he really fears from the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026

Myers is especially fine conveying a sort of shyness seasoned with bravado, along with various degrees of worry that only increase as she blusters her way into ever more perilous situations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2024

In his effort to spotlight racism and racially motivated violence, the subject of “Loudmouth” rails, showboats, declaims and blusters.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 5, 2022

In the role of amped-up chrome-domed villain Dr. Robotnik, he blusters, he blathers, he snarks, he sneers and, above all, he shouts.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 5, 2022

When a man has fully made up his mind to retreat, he blusters the most; and one step forward often promises two backward.

From Homeward Bound or, the Chase by James Fenimore Cooper

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

Then in May, a rare line of thunderstorms known as a derecho blustered through Nashville, knocking out electricity while shredding trees and utility poles.

From New York Times ● Dec. 28, 2020

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

“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

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

Forecasters issued dire warnings about trying to drive through blustering winds and whiteout conditions, and Yosemite National Park was closed.

From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 2024

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

“I worry that all your father’s blustering about Erudite has been to your detriment,” she says gently.

From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth