bombastic

Example Sentences

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His campaign to sell the president has been bombastic and loud, pure hustle.

From Slate • Mar. 14, 2026

Looking at you, Avengers Campus, a half-finished land with a bombastic orchestral score and familiar, urban design that wouldn’t be out of place in downtown L.A.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2026

The sit-down could reset relations after the two countries’ bombastic leaders spent a year trading personal insults and feuding over counternarcotics, trade and deportations.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 3, 2026

And Trump had named Leo Terrell, the bombastic former Fox News commentator, to a top DOJ civil rights post where he heads the president’s Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism.

From Salon • Dec. 13, 2025

“He’s not bombastic like Brahms, or romantic like Chopin.”

From "Confessions of a Murder Suspect" by James Patterson