blustering
Example Sentences
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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
Eilish is frightened, but when Larry returns later he dismisses her fears, blustering that he won’t “hop, skip, and jump” to the commands of the “GNSB.”
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2023
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
He also drew on his Broadway musical experience, sitting down at a piano in one episode to perform a blustering rendition of “Don’t Get Around Much Anymore” with boisterously off-key backing from Bergen.
From Washington Post • Feb. 6, 2023
An impersonation of the pompous, blustering second lieutenant.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
