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

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

Over the past 20 years, I have worked on and off as a writer, a regular guest on Classic Sports Reporters, and a recurring consultant and on-air gasbag for SportsCentury and other shows.

From Slate • Jun. 1, 2011

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

“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