Sample Sentences for
bombastic
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    The boys know it, too, they've learned this well, and they'll all wave goodbye with it, stridently, strong-armed, father-son, with the bombast of Americans, not yet knowing that this is the last language they will share.  (source)
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    ...nobody ever knew ... if he did not perhaps learn it too from the same book out of which he taught himself the words, the bombastic phrases...  (source)
    bombastic = pompous or pretentious talk or writing
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    It was widely felt, in Savannah at least, that Adler's manner was bombastic and peremptory, that he was an autocrat, and that he stepped on toes needlessly.†  (source)
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    Plopped down a stack of battered natural-science books that by accident provided a course in ancient forces: tectonic collisions, mountain ranges thrown up to the sky, volcanic bombast.†  (source)
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    Stay out of the light, the gaudy bombastic lights that belonged more properly to an island carnivale.†  (source)
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    While he was most bombastically agreeing with the coat-man that the weather was warm, he was conscious that he was longing to run childishly with his troubles to the comfort of the fairy child.†  (source)
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    Sometimes, he was a very comfortable person to live with, for all his unfortunate habit of not permitting anyone in his presence to act a lie, palm off a pretense or indulge in bombast.†  (source)
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    The bombastic trickle continued for over three minutes.†  (source)
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    It's a hint of the old bombast, the old peacock tail, and reassuring.†  (source)
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    Pouring out his taunting sarcasm in short, bombastic thunderbolts of gigantic rage, hate and ridicule, day after day, in town after town, he assailed his opponents and their policies with bitter invective.†  (source)
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    The letter was full of the usual bombast and fustian I reserved for my periods of anger, but I wanted to appear before the board of education very much.†  (source)
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    Tolstoy then makes a sort of exposition of the plot of KING LEAR, finding it at every step to be stupid, verbose, unnatural, unintelligible, bombastic, vulgar, tedious and full of incredible events, "wild ravings", "mirthless jokes", anachronisms, irrelevancies, obscenities, worn-out stage conventions and other faults both moral and aesthetic.†  (source)
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    Such remarks are rescued from bombast by knowledge that all four men who wrote them—two lieutenants, a sergeant, and a private—were killed in action.9 Those soldiers were using the word slavery in the same sense that Americans in 1776 had used it to describe their subordination to Britain.†  (source)
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