Example Sentences

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Purists have blustered for years that Hollywood was taking over Comic-Con as a marketing platform.

From New York Times • Jul. 23, 2010

They have blustered, they have fawned, they have asked each other out to talk it over behind the door.

From Tommy and Grizel by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)

Lord Palmerston would have blustered more brazenly than ever.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843 by Various

They have blustered and flustered—but what have they done or said that has not made them more thoroughly ridiculous?

From International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 by Various

When they have blustered a little they will see reason and find some means of saving their faces.

From Mr. Standfast by Buchan, John