How to Use bombastic in a Sentence

bombastic

adjective

• Seeing a normally confident and bombastic Sazz with her tail between her legs is brutal.
  — Tom Smyth, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2024
• One can easily Google video clips of Sharpton to catch a glimpse of a younger, more bombastic personality who was outright reckless at times.
  — Terrell Jermaine Starr, The Root, 11 Apr. 2018
• His message hit closer to the hearts of South Koreans last year when the North's weapons tests and Trump's bombastic tweets triggered war fears.
  — Kim Tong-Hyung, Fox News, 28 Apr. 2018
• Her sound is emotive, melismatic, acrobatic, and her visuals are similarly bombastic — a lot of hair, plenty of ass and sweat, and more than a few wardrobe changes.
  — Danielle Jackson, Longreads, 7 May 2018
• Giuliani is a longtime Trump ally who served as a bombastic campaign surrogate — at times boasting of his ties to the FBI.
  — NBC News, 19 Apr. 2018
• Bax performed with vigor and passion, convincingly executing both the work’s bombastic gestures and more subtle lyrical lines.
  — Jessica Rudman, courant.com, 7 Apr. 2018
• 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 show's newest episode picks up after a bombastic ending in episode 4.
  — Jp Mangalindan, Peoplemag, 2 Nov. 2023
• This was the sweet spot, timingwise, for a bombastic prestige drama about the world of money.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Republic, 24 Apr. 2018
• Brash and bombastic, the Crackdown 3 sizzle reel was too confusing to make much sense of.
  — Matt Peckham, Time, 11 June 2017
• Through a bunch of coaches — most notably, the bombastic Don Cherry.
  — Terry Frei, The Denver Post, 4 Feb. 2017
• At this point, the constant chatter from DDG deserves a bombastic side-eye.
  — Giana Levy, refinery29.com, 10 Oct. 2024
• However, there’s a clear hump to get over after the bombastic opening mission.
  — Hayes Madsen, Rolling Stone, 28 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 6 Dec 2024