Wondering how to use Bluff in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as dissembling or dissimulation.
Bluff in a sentence
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Bluff meaning
- An act of bluffing; a false expression of the strength of one’s position in order to intimidate or deceive; braggadocio.
- An attempt to represent oneself as holding a stronger hand than one actually does.
- The card game poker.
Synonyms of Bluff
Using Bluff
- The main meaning on this page is: An act of bluffing; a false expression of the strength of one’s position in order to intimidate or deceive; braggadocio. | An attempt to represent oneself as holding a stronger hand than one actually does. | The card game poker.
- Useful related words include: dissembling, bluff out, dissimulation, deceit.
- In the example corpus, bluff often appears in combinations such as: the bluff, bluff and, on bluff.
Context around Bluff
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 8 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Bluff
- In this selection, "bluff" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, card, new, badger, park, street and merges stand out and add context to how "bluff" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include on the bluff and a badger bluff assessment data. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "bluff" sits close to words such as amusement, atletico and bottled, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with bluff
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The new “Bluff Dwellings” Resort and Spa in Bluff, Utah. (10 words)
His ‘turn card’ bluff will be an escalation & his ‘River card’ bluff could be really ugly. (16 words)
But someone has to call his bluff, and that is why I have accepted this challenge. (16 words)
The group uses what it calls a “Badger” (Bluff Assessment Data Generating Experiment Recorders) to register movement with a wire stretched from solid land to the bluff face, and connected to a sensor that can track movement up to 10 times a second. (43 words)
Court heard Fertuck told undercover officers during a Mr. Big sting in 2018 and 2019 that he shot his estranged wife, Sheree Fertuck, twice in a Kenaston-area gravel pit and left her body in a bluff of trees northeast of the site. (43 words)
From the junction of St. George Boulevard and Bluff Street, head north on Bluff for 9.1 miles (going past Snow Canyon Parkway and continuing as Bluff merges with State Route 18) to the north entrance of Snow Canyon State Park. (41 words)
Example sentences (20)
From the junction of St. George Boulevard and Bluff Street, head north on Bluff for 9.1 miles (going past Snow Canyon Parkway and continuing as Bluff merges with State Route 18) to the north entrance of Snow Canyon State Park.
They bluff to deceive and deceive to bluff; they cherrypick ideas and facts and present them as an advertisement for themselves.
His ‘turn card’ bluff will be an escalation & his ‘River card’ bluff could be really ugly.
The new “Bluff Dwellings” Resort and Spa in Bluff, Utah.
The only requirements for businesses to be part of the database are their company profile and proof that their business is owned by someone who lives on the Bluff or operates their business on the Bluff.
The group uses what it calls a “Badger” (Bluff Assessment Data Generating Experiment Recorders) to register movement with a wire stretched from solid land to the bluff face, and connected to a sensor that can track movement up to 10 times a second.
Shuttle buses will be available at the Bluff Park United Methodist Church, Shades Mountain Independent Church, Bluff Park Village Shopping Center and Shades Crest Baptist Church.
The latter, however, may be used as a strong bluff technique, although the opponent could put in a re-raise to scare off a bluff.
A 939 the Eagle reporter observed a large tree blocking part of south Columbia’s Bluff Creek on Sunday morning.
Aldergrove’s Mangat family will be calling cancer’s bluff in mid-February, when their poker night fundraiser returned to the Royal Canadian Legion’s Aldergrove branch.
Another objector said the ‘new modern dwelling will spoil the natural beauty of this landscape and become a carbuncle on the bluff’.
A proposed six-story apartment building in Pittsburgh’s Bluff neighborhood would prominently feature 10 large panels of artwork on the building’s façade.
Because if the Giants call his bluff, he won’t get paid and won’t be able to play in 2023.
Butchers Bluff stays true to all the traditions loved in the horror cult classic films like Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Halloween, and Friday the 13th.
But no longer needing help getting out of prison, Mr. Braun essentially called their bluff, signaling that if they thought they had a case against him they should indict him.
But someone has to call his bluff, and that is why I have accepted this challenge.
But the Local Coastal Program adopted in the 1970s, which serves as a planning document for coastal communities, requires a 40-foot distance between a structure and a bluff.
Club member Ron Tonts led the group to Olson’s Bluff where they had a coffee break and had a great view of Green Lake.
Court heard Fertuck told undercover officers during a Mr. Big sting in 2018 and 2019 that he shot his estranged wife, Sheree Fertuck, twice in a Kenaston-area gravel pit and left her body in a bluff of trees northeast of the site.
Door Bluff Headlands County Park in Liberty Grove near Gills Rock is the largest county park in Door County.
Common combinations with bluff
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the bluff 26×
- bluff and 12×
- on bluff 10×
- his bluff 9×
- pine bluff 9×
- of bluff 9×
- poplar bluff 8×
- in bluff 6×
- bluff overlooking 6×
- arkansas-pine bluff 6×