BLUFF in a Sentence
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33 example sentences for BLUFF, such as:
1. The threat was only a bluff.
2. It was answered from under the bluff.
3. Wade was a hearty, bluff, athletic sort of guy.
4. They suspected this was a double bluff on the part of Cairo Intelligence.
5. It is essential to build up the military option and show that this is not a bluff.
2. It was answered from under the bluff.
3. Wade was a hearty, bluff, athletic sort of guy.
4. They suspected this was a double bluff on the part of Cairo Intelligence.
5. It is essential to build up the military option and show that this is not a bluff.
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Meanings and Examples of BLUFF
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bluff
a. bluntly direct and outspoken but good-natured
n. pretense that your position is stronger than it really is
Classic Sentence: (25 in 2 pages)
1 About midnight Tom arrived with a boiled ham and a few trifles, and stopped in a dense undergrowth on a small bluff overlooking the meeting-place.
2 It was answered from under the bluff.
3 Then Tom tumbled his ham over the bluff and let himself down after it, tearing both skin and clothes to some extent in the effort.
4 There was an easy, comfortable path along the shore under the bluff, but it lacked the advantages of difficulty and danger so valued by a pirate.
5 I fetched the shore a half a mile above the village, and then went scooting along the bluff bank in the easy water.
6 On reaching the base of the bluff they halted, and held a short council among themselves.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
7 You said nothing so well, Sir Knight, I will be sworn, when you held drunken vespers with the bluff Hermit.
8 This was addressed to a bluff old fellow, in a striped waistcoat, who was standing by the bar.
9 He was kind to her also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they seemed to be a happy couple.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES
Context Highlight In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES
10 But they were set among elms and lindens on a bluff which looked across the lake to fields of ripened wheat sloping up to green woods.
11 She was jarred out of her ecstasy as the bob-sled bumped up the steep road to the bluff where stood the cottages.
12 Its panelled front was in the likeness of a ship's bluff bows, and the Holy Bible rested on a projecting piece of scroll work, fashioned after a ship's fiddle-headed beak.
13 He stands before me again, his bluff hairy face irradiating with a joyful love and pride, for which I can find no description.
14 I saw her innocently kiss her chosen husband on the cheek, and creep close to his bluff form as if it were her best support.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 22. SOME OLD SCENES, AND SOME NEW PEOPLE
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 22. SOME OLD SCENES, AND SOME NEW PEOPLE
15 And before the bluff, kind-hearted man the shadow seemed less dark.
Example Sentence:
1 Jody keeps Sally in for twenty-three minutes, watching her pick up the offensive plays and bluff her way through the defense.
2 Wade was a hearty, bluff, athletic sort of guy.
3 It is essential to build up the military option and show that this is not a bluff.
4 They suspected this was a double bluff on the part of Cairo Intelligence.
5 The threat was only a bluff.
6 If only, I thought, he had called our bluff from the start and told us firmly that he knew the figures but wouldn't say.
7 Jack had a bluff and hearty manner that belied his actual sensitivity; he never let people know how thin-skinned he really was.
8 Under this bluff is a cave, which was used as the council-chamber of the red men, and has been the witness of many a notable event.