bluster
verb (used without object)
to roar and be tumultuous, as wind.
were 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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With winds that were blustering up to 30 mph, Journell said he tried to aim that first kick at the left upright, except “the wind never moved the ball.”
From Washington Post ● Nov. 25, 2012
There were blustering winds strewing the recently green earth with beds of withered leaves of every foliage, stripped and fallen from the shivering woods above.
From Thaddeus of Warsaw by Jane Porter
She knew which of them were quiet, and which were blustering; which were shy, and which greedy—most of them were this—and she used to feed them with crumbs on the window-sill.
From Two Prisoners by Thomas Nelson Page
President Lincoln was calm and unmoved when England and France were blustering and threatening war.
From Lincoln's Yarns and Stories: a complete collection of the funny and witty anecdotes that made Lincoln famous as America's greatest story teller by Alexander K. (Alexander Kelly) McClure
The wind and the snow were blustering outdoors.
From The Rider of Golden Bar by William Patterson White
