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

At its least attractive, you may grimly flash on the last gasbag you were stuck next to while waiting on some interminable line.

From New York Times • Jun. 23, 2022

He is, thanks to his 15-year partnership with Le Batard, a completely self-aware gasbag.

From Slate • Apr. 13, 2018

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

“We ain’t finished yet. I want to git that gasbag under the canopy before daybreak, or it’ll show up our position from miles away. You up to some manual labor, Dr. Grumman?”

From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman