Example sentences for: blowhard

How can you use “blowhard” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Still, critics applaud its explicit condemnation of the United States' passive Bosnia policy, and Woody Harrelson's portrayal of a blowhard TV reporter.

  • Of course, we did get the first glimmerings of it in Chamber of Secrets , when Hermione--along with half the girls at Hogwarts and everybody's mom--go all dewy-eyed at the thought of Gilderoy Lockhart, that god-awful blowhard of a Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, the one with the perfect profile.

  • It wasn't that either of the two plot strands (the end of George's affair with a self-absorbed professor and start of another with a Vermont ex-hippie; Nina's decision not to marry the blowhard father of her baby) broke new ground, only that the mixture raised modern and entertaining questions: Why would this woman feel more comfortable raising a child with a homosexual man than with a heterosexual one?

  • An essay by career home run champ Hank Aaron is oddly cool toward Sosa and McGwire, while a piece by official baseball blowhard George Will declares this "the greatest baseball season since ...

  • The outrage it has prompted isn't the Puritan kind; it's more like legitimate revulsion at watching a blowhard pervert people's lives in the name of "larger dramatic truths."


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