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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When they didn’t, he blustered over the course of half a dozen hearings, at one point threatening to bulldoze Brentwood’s pool or fill it with sand.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2024
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
He may be willing to make some genuine concessions for this; an improvement on past talks where Pyongyang has blustered and ultimately offered little more than a return to the status quo.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 21, 2018
Chester blustered as Casimir and Etta Cybulskis from Poland joined the growing crowd, their four-year-old daughter, Eva, in tow.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
