Example Sentences

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Students treat institutional rituals as a farce and openly mock their principal - calling him Yamdoot after the Hindu god of death - a blustering figure who addresses them as "My dear donkey".

From BBC • Feb. 13, 2026

“All right, Mongo’s home, Chicago!” bellowed the blustering Bear with long black hair tucked under his baseball cap.

From Seattle Times • May 31, 2024

Forecasters issued dire warnings about trying to drive through blustering winds and whiteout conditions, and Yosemite National Park was closed.

From New York Times • Mar. 1, 2024

Balto led 12 other dogs through the last, blustering 53 miles of the now-famous “serum run.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 27, 2023

He was a blustering, intrepid bully who brooded inconsolably over the terrible ineradicable impressions he knew he kept making on people of prominence who were scarcely aware that he was even alive.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller