tall-talking

Example Sentences

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But a “Who’s bigger?” feud with North Carolina can’t compare with squaring off against tall-talking Texas.

From Washington Times • Jul. 13, 2015

Prince Konoye's new Foreign Minister, tall-talking Yosuke Matsuoka, put the matter more plainly.

From Time Magazine Archive

All in all, the colonel was a wow back in the 1830s�the literary prototype of the tall-talking frontiersman, the first introduction to the stage of native Western humor.

From Time Magazine Archive

If John Ringling's tall-talking publicist, Dexter Fellows, knows this, it disturbs him little.

From Time Magazine Archive

Among the sins of commission which novel-writers not seldom perpetrate, is the sin of grandiloquence, or tall-talking, against which, for my part, I will offer up a special libera me.

From Roundabout Papers by Thackeray, William Makepeace