Despite the salesperson's blandishments, the customer did not buy the outfit.
Your blase attitude gives your students an erroneous impression of the joys of scholarship.
The people in the room were shocked by his his blasphemous language.
Caught in a blatant lie, the scoundrel had only one regret: he wished that he had lied more subtly.
The Aleutian Islands are bleak military outposts.
The extent of the blighted areas could be seen only when viewed from the air.
Shelley called the skylark a "blithe spirit" because of its happy song.
Her bloated stomach came from drinking so much water.
After all Sol's talk about his big show business connections led nowhere, Sally decided he was just another blowhard.
His walking stick served him as a bludgeon on many occasions.
Claire thought Lord Byron's boast that he would swim the Hellespont was just a bluff, she was astounded when he dove from the high bluff into the waters below.
The criminal's fatal blunder led to his capture.
Before she could stop him, he blurted out the news.
The gloomy skies and the sulfurious odors from the mineral springs seemed to bode evil to those who settled in the area.
The police quickly found the distributors of the bogus twenty-dollar bills.
The unruly crowd became even more boisterous when he tried to quiet them.
The debaters amassed file boxes full of evidence to bolster their arguments.
Filled with bombast, the orator's speech left the audience more impressed with his pomposity than with his logic.
The recent rains that filled our empty reservoirs were a boon to the whole community.
Though Mr. Potts constantly interrupted his wife, she ignored his boorish behavior, for she had lost hope of teaching him courtesy.
The cup of bouillon served by the stewards was welcomed by those who had been chilled by the cold ocean breezes.
She distributed gifts in a bountiful and gracious manner.
The French Revolution was inspired by the bourgeois, who resented the aristocracy.
Nothing excites Esther; even when she won the state lottery, she still preserved her air of bovine calm.
After the film editors had bowdlerized the language in the script, the motion picture's rating was changed from "R" to "PG."
He found the only wells in the area were brackish; drinking the water made him nauseous.
He was disliked because his manner was always full of braggadocio.
Modest by nature, she was no braggart, preferring to let her accomplishments speak for themselves.
The bravado of the young criminal disappeared when he was confronted by the victims of his brutal attack.
It takes brawn to become a champion weight-lifter.
Her brazen contempt for authority angered the officials.
They found a breach in the enemy's fortifications and penetrated their lines.
We were impressed by the breadth of her knowledge.
brevity is essential when you send a telegram or cablegram; you are charged for every word.
He was disappointed in the litter because the puppies were brindled; he had hoped for animals of uniform color.
The dog stood there, bristling with anger.
My employer's brittle personality made it difficult for me to get along with her.
He did not even try to broach the subject of poetry.
The sofa was covered with expensive brocade.
This brochure on farming was issued by the Department of Agriculture.
She treasured the brooch because it was an heirloom.
The dean would brook no interference with his disciplinary actions.
Billy resisted Ted's attempts to browbeat him into handing over his lunch money.
She was offended by his brusque reply.
The meadow was the scene of bucolic gaiety.
John Candy's buffoonery in Uncle Buck was hilarious.
If we become frightened by such bugaboos, we are no wiser than the birds who fear scarecrows.
Much bullion is stored in the vaults at Fort Knox.
The navy is our principal bulwark against invasion.
I was afraid you would bungle his assignment but I had no one else to send.
Many people fear that the constant introduction of federal agencies will create a government by bureaucracy.
In the spring, the plants that burgeon are a promise of the beauty that is to come.
In his caricature, he burlesqued the mannerisms of his adversary.
The burly mover lifted the packing crate with ease.
The maid burnished the brass fixtures until they reflected the lamplight.
Just as architects buttress the walls of cathedrals with flying buttresses, debates buttress their arguments with facts.
High fashion models usually are slender rather than buxom.
The cabal was defeated when its scheme was discovered.
The detectives followed the suspects until he led them to the cache where he had stored his loot.
Some people seem to enjoy the cacophony of an orchestra that is tuning up.
In some states, it is illegal to dissect cadavers.
From his cadaverous appearance, we could see how the disease had ravaged him.
Marching down the road, the troops sang out, following the cadence set by the sergeant.
I will not be cajoled into granting your wish.
As news of the calamity spread, offers of relief poured in to the stricken community.
A man of such caliber should not be assigned such menial tasks.
As we examine ancient manuscripts, we became impressed with the calligraphy of the scribes.
He had worked in the hospital for so many years that he was callous to the suffering in the wards.
In that youthful movement, the leaders were only a little less callow than their immature followers.
Coal is much more calorific than green wood.
He could endure his financial failure, but he could not bear the calumny that his foes heaped upon him.
What he loved best about his job was the sense of camaraderie he and his co-workers shared.
Tourists are advised not to purchase cameos from the street peddlers of Rome who sell poor specimens of the carver's art.
It is almost impossible to protect oneself from such a base canard.
The candor and simplicity of his speech impressed all, it was all clear he held nothing back.
Some days the canine population of Berkeley seems almost to outnumber the human population.
Poverty is a canker in the body politic; it must be cured.
The canny Scotsman was more than a match for the swindlers.
Angry that the president had slashed the education budget, we dismissed his speech on the importance of education as mere cant.
Constantly complaining about his treatment and refusing to cooperate with the hospital staff, he was a cantankerous patient.
The choral society sang the new cantata composed by its leader.
Because the racehorse had outdistanced its competition so easily, the reporter wrote that the race was won in a canter.
Dante's poetic masterpiece The Divine Comedy is divided into cantos.
After canvassing the sentiments of his constituents, the congressman was confident that he represented the majority opinion of his district.
In the capacious areas of the railroad terminal, thousands of travelers lingered while waiting for their train.
The changes in surface tension of liquids in capillary vessels is of special interest to physicists.
The enemy was warned to capitulate or face annihilation.
She was an unpredictable creature, acting on caprice, never taking thought of the consequences.
The storm was capricious and changed course constantly.
I find the captions that accompany these cartoons very clever and humorous.
His criticisms were always captious and frivolous, never offering constructive suggestions.
With each dinner, the patron receives a carafe of red or white wine.
At the children's zoo, Richard perched on top of the giant turtle's hard carapace as it slowly made its way around the enclosure.
He gave her a diamond that weighed three carats and was mounted in an eighteen-carat gold band.
Many supposedly harmless substances have been revealed to be carcinogenic.
If you want to increase your word power, the cardinal rule of vocabulary-building is to read.
The taxicab careened wildly as it rounded the corner.
The caricatures he drew always emphasized personal weaknesses of the people he burlesqued.
The carillon in the bell tower of the Coca-Cola pavilion at the New York World's Fair provided musical entertainment every hour.
