blustering
Example Sentences
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Andy Serkis’s General Braddock is a blustering fool who refuses to take Washington’s sage advice seriously until it’s too late; as Mary, George’s mother, Mary-Louise Parker is a suffering saint.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 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
Gleason played the blustering bus driver Ralph Kramden.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 14, 2024
In “The Exhibitionist,” a family lives in the shadow of a blustering, egotistic, once important painter.
From New York Times ● Jul. 5, 2023
With that, he turned to Perrington and began speaking too quietly for anyone else to hear in the blustering wind.
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
