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
Johnson blustered on until Sunday night, when it became clear he couldn’t count on the party’s right wing for support.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 24, 2022
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
Newspapers howled, commentators pontificated, politicians blustered – and perhaps that was the point.
From The Guardian • Sep. 16, 2019
And when Wang Lung stammered and blustered, not understanding, “Well—and what—well and what—” his uncle opened his coat and showed him what was against its lining.
From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck
