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How to use bluff in a sentence

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Her never-ending winsomeness seems to ignore the world around her, and the film never calls her bluff.
He was a bluff, domineering character who exuded confidence though politically he often showed signs of naivety.
They hold kickers, prefer aces over jacks, and even try to bluff the machine.
During trips home we'd have these bluff conversations about money and prospects, pensions and security.
Intentionally rough, the bluff critic reacts here as well to the spectacular reception of the poem.
His amiable personality and bluff manner had an impact and he came across as the straightforward soldier, doing his best for the country.
Consequently, the politicians in charge of prestige public projects play a game of double bluff.
With American troops quickly closing in, surrounding him on three sides, Weatherford's only escape was a bluff above the wintry Alabama River.
We are drifting in the surge line between rock pinnacles and the bluff and I cannot believe my eyes.
The sun is just starting to illuminate the horizon of a cloud-laden sky and the dragons are behind a bluff of trees right on the city limits.
Today, all that remains is a bluff of trees in the middle of a cultivated field.
But if I were an evil lizard myself, it would of course be a wonderful double bluff if I told you all about them.
Here a narrow bluff trail crosses open country known today as the East West Ranch, affording views back toward pine forests embracing the town.
This attached vortex force is the source of pressure drag on a bluff body, such as a sphere or a flat plate normal to a steady flow.
Half the barges were away, already sweeping downriver with thin, white mustaches under their bluff bows, when a commotion awoke ashore.
At the summit of the bluff is a small clearing with exposed slate bedrock, fractured by cracks and crevices.
While it was fronted largely by bluff Protestant parsons, it was backed by Stalin's branch office in the Australian Communist Party.
On the eastern side of the bluff, the bones of extinct species of bison attest that the promontory was once used as a buffalo jump.
After nine months of shilly-shallying, the Vice President and his operatives have failed to bluff the General Account Office.
The Franklin Bluffs station is located on the flood plain of the wide, braided Sagavanirktok River, at the base of a relatively high bluff.
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She looked bluff and heavy in the bows and her bilges turned hard, but she walked over the water, and don't you forget it.
As the first shaft of light over the bluff revealed the diamonds in the orchard grass I went out, wondering.
There is a small cave near the top of the bluff facing the gasconade, a short distance above the mouth of Little Piney.
For Gordy, when absolutely forced to face an unknown woman, could bring to the encounter a certain bluff ingratiation.
Did he just bluff with me when he called me a boodler and threw me downstairs in the county convention?
Some men with glasses on the bluff have sighted her, and signalled to those below!
And I'll be put on the buzzer if he didn't throw the bluff that he'd never had the thing on his head.
Then it became eleven, and Crook was tired of it, and made the capping move in his bluff.
It was a mockery of their bravado, a belittlement of their bluff and swagger in the brief day of their oppression.
Who will stand bluff to what he believes, and won't be talked out of his boots.
The father was as bluff and portly and irascible as she was patient and gentle.
A bluff man, with a walrus moustache, seated at the same table, said the posada at which he was staying was comfortable.
On the 6th of August 1772 Toll succeeded, by sheer bluff, in winning the fortress of kristianstad.
On the right has now risen the loftiest bluff that has yet marked the uruguayan shore.
A bluff, clincher-built vessel, fitted with a well, to preserve the lobsters alive.
They ran the herds into a piskunebelow a bluff, over which they rushed and were killed.
His appearance is antipodal to that of the beefy, bluff, full-blooded John Bull.
A bluffer, he has a sneaking respect for anyone who throws a bluff and gets away with it.
At the next pass the topographer rode to the summit of a bluff and asked which of the two trails I intended to follow.
It's all a game of bluff, as I told you years ago in that fan-tan shop in Shanghai.
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