bluster
verb (used without object)
to roar and be tumultuous, as wind.
Example Sentences
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His blustering threats, alternating with claims of imminent peace and victory, are doubted by friends and foe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
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
Gleason played the blustering bus driver Ralph Kramden.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 14, 2024
In “The Exhibitionist,” a family lives in the shadow of a blustering, egotistic, once important painter.
From New York Times ● Jul. 5, 2023
On camera he's a take-charge, my-words-will-blow-you-down, blustering powerhouse of a man.
From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon
