How to Use bombastic in a Sentence

bombastic

adjective

• For all his successes, though, LePage is known for his bombastic leadership style.
  — David Sharp, USA TODAY, 13 Oct. 2017
• Haley’s role is in many ways inherently more public, and therefore bombastic, than Tillerson’s.
  — David Z. Morris, Fortune, 25 Sep. 2017
• Howard was certain in her bombastic delivery style, but her material mused on the rest of the world rather than on her own insecurities as a black woman.
  — Emily Wasielewski, Chicago Reader, 14 Sep. 2017
• Trump was belligerent and bombastic, threatening to start or exacerbate a number of conflicts, while ranting about refugees and free trade.
  — Alex Shephard, New Republic, 20 Sep. 2017
• Instead, touch cheeks and administer an air kiss—a soft smacking sound, as opposed to the more bombastic mwah!—forgoing any actual exchange of saliva.
  — Tyler Moss, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Oct. 2017
• Stop listening to the bombastic loudmouths on the radio and television and the Internet.
  — Isobel Thompson, vanityfair.com, 17 Oct. 2017
• Fisher’s design remains little more than a sketch at this point but is, like most of his work, the opposite of bombastic, with a communitarian streak as strong as its modernist one.
  — Christopher Hawthorne, latimes.com, 18 Oct. 2017
• But officials here, and even some of Trump's own aides, worry the Russia cloud could lead the unpredictable and bombastic US leader to lash out.
  — Kevin Liptak, CNN, 4 Nov. 2017
• The final version of the track isn’t as bombastic as the other big tunes of the 1980s.
  — Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 13 May 2021
• Medvedev has in the past made bombastic statements and claims.
  — Chicago Tribune, 20 Mar. 2023
• But even the bombastic king didn't have a spa and an Alain Ducasse restaurant.
  — Toby Skinner, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Dec. 2019
• The bombastic look felt like it was plucked out of the cult-beloved film Showgirls (1995), and echoed the movie’s cheeky, saucy, and bold style.
  — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 21 Aug. 2020
• The over-the-top build more than lives up to its bombastic name and is based on one of the earliest Land Cruisers, the FJ45.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 1 Nov. 2023
• True to form for the eccentric and bombastic Musk, the headlines didn’t end there.
  — NBC News, 11 Apr. 2022
• At Eight Tables, the soup course was just as bombastic.
  — Soleil Ho, SFChronicle.com, 2 Sep. 2019
• Overall, though, the book’s tone is less bombastic than his first.
  — Seth Stern, Washington Post, 7 June 2019
• But Díaz-Canel’s tone was less bombastic than the day before.
  — Washington Post, 12 July 2021
• The bombastic Piers Morgan, of all people, jumped in from the Twitter peanut gallery.
  — Monica Lewinsky, Vanities, 19 July 2017
• That's not to say The Last Jedi slacked off in terms of bombastic visuals; far from it.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 18 Dec. 2017
• The pair are in a world of their own, a late-’80s dreamland filled with Aqua Net fumes, bombastic fashions and pop star crushes.
  — Courtney Howard, Variety, 29 Sep. 2022
• The sea change for Genesis came in 1975, when bizarre and bombastic Gabriel left, and Collins came out from behind the drum kit to take over.
  — Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2021
• There’s so much gaudy poetry in the Showtime moniker — it’s not just a game, but a bombastic show!
  — Nina Metz, chicagotribune.com, 7 Mar. 2022
• The lead engine barrels on, but instead of a bombastic end, the movie turns quiet.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Apr. 2021
• The film crawls in sequences like this toward a climax that could have been bombastic.
  — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 22 Feb. 2021
• Columns of fire and small fireworks arrived with the evening's most bombastic tunes.
  — David Lindquist, Indianapolis Star, 10 Feb. 2020
• For example: The most bombastic young man in the class often turns out to have written the worst novel.
  — Zadie Smith, Harper's BAZAAR, 4 Aug. 2020
• The reversal comes after a bombastic launch for the drinks.
  — Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 29 Oct. 2024
• Then again, when trying to upstage the regime of a bombastic blowhard on the world stage, never send a Mike Pence to do a Donald Trump’s job.
  — Chas Danner, Daily Intelligencer, 10 Feb. 2018
• The show's newest episode picks up after a bombastic ending in episode 4.
  — Jp Mangalindan, Peoplemag, 2 Nov. 2023
• The song evokes the bombastic highs and orchestral sweeps that are part of the DNA of Overwatch’s in-game music, with which fans and players are deeply familiar.
  — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 18 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Jan 2025