bombast
Example Sentences
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“He’s done it with such bombast that actually, practically speaking, he has limited his options,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
The 42-year-old Pacific Palisades native attributes his many lives to having an unparalleled amount of energy, a strain of inner bombast that could be likened to strobes of light and patterns behind closed eyelids.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 27, 2026
And confetti cannons rained glitter over him as the brass bombast of Land of Hope and Glory rang out and a giant union jack appeared on the screen behind him.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2025
Even winning is an abstract concept, floating on bombast.
From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2025
“And there is a certain bombast in the way we speak that I had also forgotten. I started feeling truly at home again when I started being bombastic!”
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Vocabulary lists containing bombast
"What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" by Frederick Douglass
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Vocabulary Heard at the 2016 Democratic National Convention
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