bluster
verb (used without object)
to roar and be tumultuous, as wind.
was blustering
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past progressiveof bluster.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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It was the winter of 1917, a strong north wind was blustering, but the exigencies of earning my living forced me to be up and out early.
From Time ● Oct. 21, 2011
Indonesia's neutralist President Sukarno, who only last May was blustering that "all I have to do is wink" to get Communist aid, put on a broad smile and invited U.S.
From Time Magazine Archive
It had begun to thunder and lighten, and the wind which was blustering through the yard drove sand and straw pattering against the window.
From An Old Story of My Farming Days Vol. III (of III). (Ut Mine Stromtid) by Fritz Reuter
Now, with the swiftness of an atmospheric change, it was blustering from the depths of the park.
From The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by Charlotte Brewster Jordan
Never was blustering demagogue led by a distempered sense of self-importance into a more fatal error.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 by Various
