How to Use bloviate in a Sentence
bloviate
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This group, led by Tony Caputo himself, has been bloviating for years.
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Steve Hartman,
CBS News,
26 July 2019
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He is looked upon as a bloviating buffoon, not to be believed or taken seriously.
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Voice Of The People,
New York Daily News,
11 Apr. 2026
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Brittany couldn’t go to the range without some guy bloviating at her, spouting his detailed knowledge about what caliber and gun the little lady should have.
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Jon Caldara,
The Denver Post,
19 Dec. 2019
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The result, in almost every sphere of American life, has been bloviating incompetence.
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Walter Shapiro,
The New Republic,
16 Apr. 2020
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By contrast, bloviating pols, hack journalists and garden-variety academics never stop writing books about Churchill.
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Joe Queenan,
WSJ,
20 Dec. 2018
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Sklar seems delighted to have a fresh audience, bloviating almost without interruption, nearly all of which Lori absorbs with a poker face.
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Peter Debruge,
Variety,
8 Sep. 2025
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Where other viewers might see talking heads bloviating about various policies, Trump sees people who should be making the policies in real life — or, at least, pushing his in a telegenic way.
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Callum Borchers,
Washington Post,
16 Mar. 2018
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There’s a lot going on here, which leads to a whole lot of gassy exposition to explain it all, including two separate scenes in which two different groups of good guys are tied to chairs while villains bloviate on the intricacies of the plot.
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Soren Andersen,
The Seattle Times,
2 July 2018
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This commencement season is marked not just by bloviating billionaires promising to pay down millions in student loan debt, like Robert Smith did at Morehouse College last week.
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Dylan Bouscher,
The Mercury News,
10 June 2019
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