How to Use bombast in a Sentence

bombast

noun

• Someone smart on his campaign told him to rein in the bombast during the first (and likely only) presidential debate.
  — S.e. Cupp, New York Daily News, 16 July 2024
• And, despite Trump’s bombast and lies, these are not the best of times.
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2020
• The bombast is a response, a defense, a pose, a stance.
  — New York Times, 14 Mar. 2022
• At his home, the bombast remained, but the smiles were absent.
  — Nick Turse, Time, 18 Oct. 2019
• But beyond all the building bombast, there's a gentler, low-key side to the city, too.
  — Maureen O'Hare, CNN, 1 Oct. 2022
• Still, his criticism was mild compared with the bombast of the past.
  — Peter Baker and Somini Sengupta, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2017
• The protests this weekend were long on dignity and grace and short on bombast.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 25 Sep. 2017
• 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
• If one strips away all the bombast and bluster, Trump announced a few adjustments to the approach that has been in place for years.
  — Stephen Tankel, Fortune, 22 Aug. 2017
• 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
• 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
• Parscale is a striking figure: 6-foot-8, with a trademark Viking beard and a penchant for bombast.
  — Peter Elkind, ProPublica, 11 Sep. 2019
• These threats are bombast, since the young leader is not suicidal.
  — Trudy Rubin, Philly.com, 6 Sep. 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Still, those who have been there will tell you that, for a gaming fan, there was nothing quite like the bombast and spectacle of the E3 show floor in its heyday.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 12 Dec. 2023
• 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
• As a show, Agent Carter was full of fun and bombast, showing some of what its eponymous lead got up to after losing her love, Steve Rogers.
  — Nola Pfau, Vulture, 12 Jan. 2024
• Jazz is made up of a lot of emotions -- joy, sadness, melancholy, humor, bombast.
  — Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 10 Feb. 2018
• The bleeding memories of her witnesses clashed with the gloss and bombast of the official rhetoric.
  — The Economist, 20 July 2017
• 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
• Conductor Mark Elder reveled in both the bombast and the intimacy of the score.
  — Heidi Waleson, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2018
• But the film's producers bog the whole thing down by pulling a Sorrento every step of the way: trying—and failing—to make up for a lack of heart with bombast and geeky cameos.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 29 Mar. 2018
• The beautiful anger and bombast of Charlie Pierce is there, but also elsewhere.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 12 Apr. 2018
• 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
• Wrestling fans were so caught up in the rivalries and bombast stoked by Mr. Heenan that his life was sometimes in actual danger.
  — Matt Schudel, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 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
• Understand, the bombast also was part of that equation, as well. From Shifty Schaffel.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 9 July 2022
• The Dodge Tomahawk debuted in 2003 as a left-field offering from the brand known for its singular style of four-wheeled bombast.
  — Basem Wasef, Robb Report, 5 July 2024

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024