rodomontade

Example Sentences

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The rodomontade was, Laurel saw, a gag, but the essence of its truth was soon realized.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 18, 2015

What eristic discipline they brought to their sciolistic quibbles, though prone to occasional bursts of rodomontade!

From Washington Post • Aug. 21, 2015

Up bel canto hill and down rodomontade dale, con brio, with the rising young opera star Rockwell Blake.

From Time Magazine Archive

It celebrates the chicanery of the human spirit, the love of raillery and rodomontade.

From Time Magazine Archive

For whole days, if not for weeks together, he dealt in nothing but the wildest fiction, and the most extraordinary and grotesque rodomontade.

From The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by Carleton, William