rodomontade

Example Sentences

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The rodomontade was, Laurel saw, a gag, but the essence of its truth was soon realized.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 18, 2015

What eristic discipline they brought to their sciolistic quibbles, though prone to occasional bursts of rodomontade!

From Washington Post • Aug. 21, 2015

The raging rhetoric and rodomontade that are customary between Arabs and Israelis sometimes signify more bark than bite.

From Time Magazine Archive

Just as a firing squad is about to punctuate Gerard's career of rodomontade, Bonaparte steps before the muskets and saves his brigadier.

From Time Magazine Archive

I will never marry a man I do not love——" "No silly rodomontade, if you please, my dear.

From A Speckled Bird by Wilson, Augusta J. Evans