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
The wind was blowing them hard now, and the great gasbag swelled and billowed in the gusts.
From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman
