bombast
Example Sentences
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“He’s done it with such bombast that actually, practically speaking, he has limited his options,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
The scene was an antidote to all that is wrong in world football; the rampant greed, the unrelenting bombast.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026
Schwartz has composed an American time capsule of Broadway pop, with as much variety as “Wicked” though with less bombast and no real standout blockbuster numbers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2025
This latest combination of vanity whining and braggadocio bombast was greeted from Congress, members of his staff, reporters and members of the general public with mostly wide, tired stares.
From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2025
“And there is a certain bombast in the way we speak that I had also forgotten. I started feeling truly at home again when I started being bombastic!”
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Vocabulary lists containing bombast
"What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" by Frederick Douglass
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"'Blaxicans' and Other Reinvented Americans," Vocabulary from the argument
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Vocabulary Heard at the 2016 Democratic National Convention
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