bluster
verb (used without object)
to roar and be tumultuous, as wind.
blustered
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past participleof bluster.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof bluster.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
blusterverb (used without object)to roar and be tumultuous, as wind.
Example Sentences
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From the moment he blustered his way onto the political stage, Donald Trump defied expectations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2023
Johnson blustered on until Sunday night, when it became clear he couldn’t count on the party’s right wing for support.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 24, 2022
It shows a violent blast of wind, and streaks of rain, beating a dun-colored landscape, as if a summer thunderstorm had missed its cue in June and blustered in six months later.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 1, 2020
Newspapers howled, commentators pontificated, politicians blustered – and perhaps that was the point.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 16, 2019
Mr. Stonecrop blustered out of the house, and Turner and his father watched him take the street by right of possession.
From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt
