How to Use bombast in a Sentence

bombast

noun
  • The bombast of the song clashes with the aloofness of her style.
    — Stephen Kearse, Pitchfork, 21 Apr. 2026
  • At his home, the bombast remained, but the smiles were absent.
    — Nick Turse, Time, 18 Oct. 2019
  • The protests this weekend were long on dignity and grace and short on bombast.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 25 Sep. 2017
  • Still, his criticism was mild compared with the bombast of the past.
    — Peter Baker and Somini Sengupta, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2017
  • These threats are bombast, since the young leader is not suicidal.
    — Trudy Rubin, Philly.com, 6 Sep. 2017
  • But beyond all the building bombast, there's a gentler, low-key side to the city, too.
    — Maureen O'Hare, CNN, 1 Oct. 2022
  • The country will be served another helping of his bombast for the next four years.
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 16 Jan. 2025
  • This is bombast that has not been thought through from a policy perspective.
    — Barbara A. Perry, Newsweek, 28 Jan. 2025
  • The track's bombast came through loud and clear, and its arena-worthy guitar swells held their own on the high seas.
    — Chris Payne, Billboard, 28 Jan. 2018
  • Beirut — Strip away the bombast and superlatives.
    — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Jazz is made up of a lot of emotions -- joy, sadness, melancholy, humor, bombast.
    — Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 10 Feb. 2018
  • As ever, beneath the bombast, the true picture is more nuanced.
    — Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Raphael is not for a time of bombast, or of rancor, unless the culture wants an antidote.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 2 Sep. 2020
  • Once the show scaled back the bombast, its themes of processing grief and found family struck a clearer chord.
    — Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 16 May 2023
  • McMahon had a career’s worth of lessons in the virtues of bombast, and also in the dangers of it.
    — Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
  • But Dominion feels no less than two full script rewrites away from living up to the fun and bombast of its best moments.
    — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 8 June 2022
  • Nor was the raw power and sheer bombast that were obvious hallmarks of Gerrard's game from a young age.
    — SI.com, 5 Sep. 2019
  • Too big, too flashy, too red, too everything — a tacky pile of bombast in the vein of the Fontainebleau Hotel.
    — Christopher Robbins, Curbed, 9 Feb. 2026
  • After all, her main skill set—a knack for language and bombast—overlapped nicely with that of most successful hip-hop artists.
    — Gary Shteyngart, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2017
  • The bleeding memories of her witnesses clashed with the gloss and bombast of the official rhetoric.
    — The Economist, 20 July 2017
  • Trump’s version of events, as is so often the case, isn’t based on facts, but wishcasting, projection, bombast and bluffs.
    — S.e. Cupp, New York Daily News, 11 Mar. 2026
  • For all of its bombast, grandeur, melodrama and over-the-top chest-clawing ridiculousness, opera at its most grand is art at its most human.
    — Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2021
  • May should sack him for giving his pro-Brexit bombast interviews to the press, or so all the questions from the press imply.
    — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 3 Oct. 2017
  • The beautiful anger and bombast of Charlie Pierce is there, but also elsewhere.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 12 Apr. 2018
  • There’s a whiff of camp in his bombast and even in his public persona—the suit and glossy leather jacket that gave the impression of a gentleman fetishist.
    — Jeremy Lybarger, The New Republic, 7 Apr. 2021
  • Utopia is most effective as a survey of 15 years of trends in stadium rap, a sound steeped in the bombast of Ye records.
    — Vulture, 2 Aug. 2023
  • At times, the album flirts with bombast, walking right up to the edge and sometimes teetering over, which is how rock and pop records often achieve real grandeur.
    — Kevin Dettmar, The New Yorker, 20 May 2022
  • Those blockbusters happen to an audience, flattening them with a bombast their living rooms can’t replicate.
    — Robert Rubsam, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The twist is that amid the bombast and play of Planetarium, the statement may be one of condemnation.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 8 June 2017
  • Portrayed by Melvin Gregg with a mix of bombast and street allure, Skemes comes by his nickname honestly.
    — Lisa Kennedy, Variety, 28 Mar. 2023

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