How to Use bombastic in a Sentence

bombastic

adjective
  • Their rhetoric has been bombastic.
    — Chicago Tribune, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Medvedev has in the past made bombastic statements and claims.
    — Chicago Tribune, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Overall, though, the book’s tone is less bombastic than his first.
    — Seth Stern, Washington Post, 7 June 2019
  • There were flashy lights, but no fireworks or bombastic video displays.
    — Piet Levy, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 Mar. 2018
  • The result was a bombastic action movie with a dark sense of humour.
    — Ian Stokes, Space.com, 26 Nov. 2025
  • The film crawls in sequences like this toward a climax that could have been bombastic.
    — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 22 Feb. 2021
  • Those efforts have been tossed aside in favor of a more bombastic approach.
    — Timothy McLaughlin, The Atlantic, 20 Oct. 2021
  • The Safe Soss gear is a little less bombastic.
    — New Atlas, 27 Nov. 2025
  • He was tasked with putting the film into theaters with that bombastic Imax sound.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 27 Feb. 2026
  • But Díaz-Canel’s tone was less bombastic than the day before.
    — Washington Post, 12 July 2021
  • The three-minute-plus earworm is more of a bombastic wakeup call than a nursery rhyme.
    — Jae-Ha Kim, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2026
  • But even the bombastic king didn't have a spa and an Alain Ducasse restaurant.
    — Toby Skinner, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Dec. 2019
  • Columns of fire and small fireworks arrived with the evening's most bombastic tunes.
    — David Lindquist, Indianapolis Star, 10 Feb. 2020
  • This week’s statement is an example of the bombastic rhetoric.
    — Jamie McIntyre, Washington Examiner, 30 Jan. 2020
  • The lead engine barrels on, but instead of a bombastic end, the movie turns quiet.
    — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Apr. 2021
  • The show's newest episode picks up after a bombastic ending in episode 4.
    — Jp Mangalindan, Peoplemag, 2 Nov. 2023
  • True to form for the eccentric and bombastic Musk, the headlines didn’t end there.
    — NBC News, 11 Apr. 2022
  • That claim sounds bombastic when much of the art world sees the headline grabbing Banksy as a guilty pleasure at best.
    — Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 7 May 2026
  • Will this bit wear thin for those who have already had their fill of bombastic media figures in the actual news?
    — Rebecca Keegan, vanityfair.com, 23 Aug. 2017
  • Clive was big, and bombastic, and brave, and full of ideas, and just believed, believed, believed, believed.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 29 June 2026
  • This was the sweet spot, timingwise, for a bombastic prestige drama about the world of money.
    — Rachel Syme, The New Republic, 24 Apr. 2018
  • There was a lot of really bombastic language that happened throughout this war.
    — Adam Harris, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Tunic isn’t big or bombastic, like many of 2022’s other games.
    — Megan Farokhmanesh, WIRED, 30 Dec. 2022
  • Just because the demon-slaying action happens less in the air doesn’t mean the new entry will be any less bombastic.
    — Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • Frankenstein is loud, bombastic, sublime and silly.
    — Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • But La Torre managed it with bombastic aplomb, across a set that sampled from the band’s full catalog.
    — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 Sep. 2021

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