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Example sentences for "bluffed"

Lexicographically close words:
bluestone; bluet; bluets; bluey; bluff; bluffer; bluffing; bluffs; bluffy; bluid
  1. Bluffed them--taunted them--told them he was King Fisher.

  2. Looks to me like Isbel bluffed Greaves an' his gang an' licked your men without throwin' a gun.

  3. And many a good sea-going old skipper is bluffed the same way about anything that spells regulations, you betcher.

  4. Meanwhile, the governor held counsel with the New England commissioners, and despite the remonstrances of the members, bluffed off his little Parliament until October 5.

  5. His son, Sir Henry, led the British regulars and mercenaries who were bluffed in North Carolina, driven off at Fort Moultrie, and finally won victory at Long Island.

  6. Why, look what he said about you havin' 'em all bluffed in San Berdoo!

  7. You had all the county officials bluffed into thinking you were the victim of that Black Butte bunch, instead of being in cahoots.

  8. If we'd had you to head us we'd have bluffed off Uncle Sam's troopers at the Cypress range.

  9. A young girl bluffed off Fletcher and the other ruffian there, the prisoner Gorst.

  10. This was done; but what was furnished would not have bluffed a novice in a select seminary for young ladies of weak intellect.

  11. Journalists on occasion gave themselves away too badly during those years over warlike operations, army organization, and so forth, for one to let oneself be bluffed in future.

  12. Of course the doctor had not said anything of the kind, but he bluffed it out.

  13. The morning was a troublesome time, and we all felt better when it had passed; that is, if we had eluded or bluffed the guard.

  14. Overloaded, undermanned, meant to founder, we Euchred God Almighty's storm, bluffed the Eternal Sea!

  15. Once he did chance a feeler, but I just twirled my moustache, à la Lord Tomnoddy, and bluffed him to a finish.

  16. I bluffed for a raise of five dollars, on the strength of this outfit, and got it off the bat.

  17. He remembered having been bluffed before, and could not be got near the sledge at all.

  18. I s'pose they figure on us peaceable farmers bein' bluffed out by a hard face and a hostile talk.

  19. I may be froze out, but dog-gone my ol' hide if I'll be bluffed out.

  20. You had him bluffed until you talked about Paramushiro.

  21. I bluffed him out of it at the time by pretending there was an F.

  22. After he's bluffed Gresham's crowd out, maybe he'll go back to his original ten thousand offer.

  23. Would you speak to a young girl, however well-born and wealthy, who to hide a love affair with one man bluffed a marriage with a mere acquaintance?

  24. By charging enormous prices and calling her frocks by poetical names she had bluffed the gullible public into believing that she was the last word--the very acme of fashion.

  25. The one who bluffed out Gloster and three others.

  26. Sage-brush was not bluffed by Buck's insolence or his swaggering manners.

  27. You're not goin' to be bluffed by one man, are you, boys?

  28. I've loved ye more years than he's seen ye weeks, and I won't be bluffed off.

  29. I've watched my wife scrubbing and baking and patching my clothes in the old black days when I lived in a three-roomed shack because I was bluffed out of half my earnings by people who sent their daughters to Europe every year.

  30. I am sure that he did just as I said he always did, and bluffed her into marriage with an eyeglass and smile awry.

  31. Whether or no he bluffed himself into it too, tempted by the power of his magic apparatus, is precisely the matter which I am to determine.

  32. They'll think they've bluffed us out, if we drop her now," argued one side.

  33. In a few rare cases he got it; but was generally bluffed out, or blandly referred back to the New York offices, or reasoned out.

  34. I've thought a deal over this hold-up, and it seems to me those guys bluffed us some.

  35. He'd bluffed my daddy, and my daddy takes a bluff from no man.


  36. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bluffed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.