gasbag

Example Sentences

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Well, shoot, I’m proud to be a gasbag and, as we parade into the darkness having changed the American sports media landscape forever, at least I can finally say unequivocally, “It’s …”

From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2025

More accurately, it stars “Tim Heidecker,” the megalomaniacal, incompetent, platitudinous right-wing gasbag played by the eponymous actor, who hosts the movie-review webseries On Cinema at the Cinema.

From Slate • Jul. 21, 2017

As Simpson, Cuba Gooding, Jr., captures the football star’s gasbag egotism but falls short of the regal charisma that drew people to him.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 8, 2016

It’s cited out of context all the time as a pearl of genuine wisdom, but in the playing it’s traditionally rendered as just one of the many aphorisms spouted by an old gasbag.

From New York Times • Dec. 31, 2010

He looked up to check the gasbag and saw it sway a degree or two, leaning toward the hills.

From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman