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"Bluff" in a Sentence (33 examples)
Hanako called his bluff.
She was tempted to call his bluff, hardly believing that he would carry out his threat.
As I stood upon the bluff before my cottage on that clear cold night in the early part of March, 1886, the noble Hudson flowing like the grey and silent spectre of a dead river below me, I felt again the strange, compelling influence of the mighty god of war, my beloved Mars, which for ten long and lonesome years I had implored with outstretched arms to carry me back to my lost love.
We can't call their bluff.
Call Tom's bluff.
Tom called Mary's bluff.
It's obviously a bluff.
Tom called my bluff.
I ended up tripping and skinning my knee while I was it in our game of blind man's bluff.
I wished Mr. Bluff a "Merry Christmas," and hurried homeward through the cold and nipping air.
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That is only bluff, or That is only a bluff.
John’s bet was a bluff: he bet without even so much as a pair.
BLUFF OR POKER [title of a chapter]
John bluffed by betting without even a pair.
The government claims it will call an election if this bill does not pass. Is it truly ready to do so, or is it bluffing?
We bluffed our way past the guards.
Vinod, you want to bluff the doctor, your mother, father, uncle, auntie, CMPB all that I don't care. But you cannot bluff me.
In the sketch (which is taken about 75 Jovian days after that of the 2nd July) there is shown a dark copper-coloured streak along the southern margin of the south brown belt, butting on to a bluff-headed streak of cumulus cloud which may be the same remarkable bluff head noticed on July 2.
It seems there was a worm that slept upon a pile of treasure, which it had zealously heaped up under a stone bluff.
Bounded to the north and west by mountains and river, to the east by river alone, and to the south by high bluffs that mark the beginning of the loess country, it is a compact and easily defended territory hospitable only to nomads. Today these lands are divided between the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region and the Ning-hsia Hui Autonomous Region. Under the Republic the Ho-t’ao and Pao-t’ou plains were included in Sui-yuan province, and the Ning-hsia area in Ning-hsia province.
Situated on bluffs above the Huangpu, a tributary of the Yangtze, Shanghai—which means ‘above the sea’—is sinking.
the bluff bows of a ship
a bluff or bold shore
Its banks, if not really steep, had a bluff and precipitous aspect.
[…] he had a bluff, rough-and-ready face, all roughened and reddened and lined in his long travels.
a bluff answer
a bluff manner of talking
a bluff sea captain
There is indeed a bluff pertinacity which is a proper defence in a moment of surprise.
Not a sparrow on the cottage thatch, where the chimney's warmth had thawed the snow, that did not seem to have his great coat on, so bluffed out were the feathers, and not a frozen-out duck who did not glance up at the icicles hanging to the roof, and quack a prayer for rain.
[W]hen the bare boughs of a tree intervened between her and the rising bright but deep red sun, frosted as the twigs were, on them sat a merry flock of sparrows, the feathers on their breasts bluffed out, as if they had donned warm winter spencers to shield them from the biting blast.
I remember one idle bright afternoon here when Phillip bluffed out his little chest, sneaking expectant glances back at me and Cammy, until she "restrained" him from bickering with that beagle.
Former name: Campbelltown
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