Example Sentences

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Ackman must have been bluffing, on the assumption that no one would bother actually reading the email.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 16, 2024

By the following spring, senior U.S. officials concluded the Israelis weren’t serious about a commando raid on Fordow and may have been bluffing.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2015

And it hits me that Larry may not have been bluffing.

From Scientific American • Jan. 4, 2013

Then, he may have been bluffing when he told you he had the Prophet's slipper.

From The Quest of the Sacred Slipper by Rohmer, Sax

He might have been bluffing us ... no, I don't suppose so.

From Diplomatic Immunity by Sheckley, Robert