How to Use blowhard in a Sentence

blowhard

noun
  • What’s good prose, and who’s just a blowhard trying to show off?
    Matt Pearcestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Don was a blowhard, and about one in ten of his crass jokes were funny.
    Sarah Miller, The New Yorker, 15 Nov. 2020
  • The president of the United States is a blowhard — again.
    Rich Lowry, National Review, 1 June 2022
  • That’s not a quote from some random, drunk, half-wit, blowhard.
    Michael Harriot, The Root, 23 Sep. 2017
  • Change will come for good, because the thing the blowhards fear most has already come to pass.
    Yvonne Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 3 June 2023
  • The choice this time was a larger deterrent -- or be seen as a blowhard.
    Tim Lister, CNN, 14 Apr. 2018
  • Politicians, brands, and blowhards were the enemies, and few places were so willing to point them out to the younger set.
    Peter Rubin, WIRED, 11 July 2019
  • The smoker blowhards could talk to you about smoking meat until 2038.
    Jason Gay, WSJ, 28 June 2019
  • Warning: There are some real know-it-all grill blowhards out there.
    Jason Gay, WSJ, 28 June 2019
  • As too many of today’s blowhards fail to understand, the best late-night hosts don’t make the show all about themselves.
    Judy Berman, TIME, 10 May 2024
  • Rick Grimes and his posse based in Alexandria have spent the season going toe-to-toe with the blowhard meanie Negan and his group, the Saviors.
    Steve Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 23 Feb. 2018
  • Just think of the sequel, when an Airhead wants to bring her Earth boyfriend home from college to meet her blowhard father.
    Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 14 June 2023
  • Trump seemed like a worse blowhard than usual tonight and therefore came across to me as more insecure.
    Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 30 Sep. 2020
  • The character who calls himself a king is an utter blowhard.
    Ryan Chapman, Longreads, 28 Aug. 2019
  • In normal times Priti Patel might have spent the rest of her career in the army of blowhards with a great future behind them.
    The Economist, 19 Oct. 2019
  • And Hollis’s troupe, in which God is played by a mellifluous blowhard named Larking, has good reason to doubt him.
    Jesse Green, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2018
  • Stephen Colbert, inhabiting his parody of a right-wing blowhard, did the same thing to George W. Bush in 2006.
    Staff, cleveland.com, 30 Apr. 2018
  • The comic is a sacred piece of culture, the kind of totem that young blowhards will inevitably declare untouchable.
    Darren Franich, EW.com, 15 Oct. 2019
  • Bergman’s version was far tougher on the blowhard securities of the male character.
    Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 14 Sep. 2021
  • If the man on the street sounds like a blowhard, hyperpartisanship explains why.
    Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 25 July 2023
  • There was blowhard ad man Donny Deutsch wearing dark shades and making a bad joke about cosmetic surgery.
    vanityfair.com, 30 June 2017
  • There are also more alternative-fact-loving blowhards in the House.
    The Economist, 12 Oct. 2017
  • Apis is a blowhard, a bully and a fool, but still smarter than his three recruits, all of them mortally ill, presumably with nothing to lose.
    Jordan Riefe, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 May 2017
  • Liberals reviled him as a hateful blowhard and a bigot.
    Stephen Collinson, CNN, 19 Feb. 2021
  • John Kass is the biggest authoritarian blowhard in a city that has plenty of them.
    Ryan Smith, Chicago Reader, 23 Aug. 2017
  • Perhaps the responsibilities of the office have sobered our blowhard in chief and flushed the wax from the presidential ears.
    Katy Waldman, Slate Magazine, 14 Mar. 2017
  • His bluff, naive, blowhard innocence is pitch perfect, at once deadpan and winking.
    Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2022
  • With her sinking bouffant and regulation-'60s makeup, Rogers is the essence of the spouse weary from too many years propped against a bar, every eye-roll at her blowhard husband accompanied by a sip of gin.
    David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Feb. 2018
  • Conservative blowhards are quick to tell black people that slavery was something a few white men did centuries ago.
    Michael Harriot, The Root, 2 May 2018
  • An extremely rich blowhard who is used to running roughshod over anyone who gets in his way, Charlie is about to receive big-time payback for his toxic masculinity.
    Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 2 May 2024

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