blustering
Example Sentences
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His blustering threats, alternating with claims of imminent peace and victory, are doubted by friends and foe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
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
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
In “The Exhibitionist,” a family lives in the shadow of a blustering, egotistic, once important painter.
From New York Times ● Jul. 5, 2023
He was a blustering, intrepid bully who brooded inconsolably over the terrible ineradicable impressions he knew he kept making on people of prominence who were scarcely aware that he was even alive.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
