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
  • That’s not a quote from some random, drunk, half-wit, blowhard.
    — Michael Harriot, The Root, 23 Sep. 2017
  • Don was a blowhard, and about one in ten of his crass jokes were funny.
    — Sarah Miller, The New Yorker, 15 Nov. 2020
  • Her husband, Bill, is a bit of a blowhard and no one likes to be around him.
    — R. Eric Thomas, Mercury News, 10 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • A lot of these blowhards work in the media, not just in electoral politics.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 7 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • To put it nicely, James is high horse moral blowhard on a lot of things, and one is being vegan.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 20 May 2026
  • His bluff, naive, blowhard innocence is pitch perfect, at once deadpan and winking.
    — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2022
  • The smoker blowhards could talk to you about smoking meat until 2038.
    — Jason Gay, WSJ, 28 June 2019
  • If the man on the street sounds like a blowhard, hyperpartisanship explains why.
    — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 25 July 2023
  • Bergman’s version was far tougher on the blowhard securities of the male character.
    — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 14 Sep. 2021
  • There are also more alternative-fact-loving blowhards in the House.
    — The Economist, 12 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • There was blowhard ad man Donny Deutsch wearing dark shades and making a bad joke about cosmetic surgery.
    — vanityfair.com, 30 June 2017
  • What happened Tuesday should scare away any of the remaining top prospects who would want to play for this berating blowhard.
    — Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb. 2026
  • John Kass is the biggest authoritarian blowhard in a city that has plenty of them.
    — Ryan Smith, Chicago Reader, 23 Aug. 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
  • Cox plays the character as an aging, stubborn blowhard who can’t fathom why anyone might not take him seriously.
    — Alan Zilberman, idahostatesman, 8 June 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • Jenny found Gerry intelligent and amusing but also a blowhard and a bully.
    — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Washington had no shortage of know-it-all blowhards; perhaps there was room for a different type of personality.
    — Laura Moser, Vogue, 19 July 2017
  • But Gingrich's bluster was no match for Kelly's steely sense of authority in dealing with blowhards.
    — David Zurawik, baltimoresun.com, 5 May 2017

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