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Sentence count:135+8Posted:2016-12-09Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: bankdeceivedeludetrickSimilar words: fluffybluea blue moonblueberryguffstuffduffermuffledMeaning: [blʌf]  n. 1. a high steep bank (usually formed by river erosion) 2. pretense that your position is stronger than it really is 3. the act of bluffing in poker; deception by a false show of confidence in the strength of your cards. v. 1. deceive an opponent by a bold bet on an inferior hand with the result that the opponent withdraws a winning hand 2. frighten someone by pretending to be stronger than one really is. adj. 1. very steep; having a prominent and almost vertical front 2. bluntly direct and outspoken but good-natured. 
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31. I know everything so there's no point trying to bluff it out.
32. Hardin would not bluff him into silly action.
33. Johnson said the threats were pure bluff.
34. His bluff, finally, had been called.
35. This can quickly turn into a game of bluff.
36. I said, calling his bluff.
37. The object is to bluff your opponent into submission.
38. After all that, Call My Bluff was a breeze.
39. Professor Marsh eventually took almost five hundred ton-sized wooden boxes of bones from the Como Bluff quarries.
40. Lord Hill called his bluff by threatening to make public the reason why the programme could not be shown.
41. Now her plan to bluff her way through had been reduced to a pitiful shambles.
42. But you daren't take the risk of trying it on in case I was calling your bluff and would refuse you.
43. This bluff businessman was a familiar figure to most of the small audience.
44. Most people pay up straight away, but there are a few who keep trying to bluff it out.
45. From the interstate highway which runs nearby, nothing about this bluff looks any different from thousands of others.
46. Bismarck successfully called the liberals' bluff by taking advantage of Prussia's undeveloped constitutionalism.
47. Jody keeps Sally in for twenty-three minutes, watching her pick up the offensive plays and bluff her way through the defense.
48. Subtract -20 as a penalty from any character whose player specifically states that his character is using Bluff or some similar skill.
49. But then most of us could probably bluff our way into a second division club with a bit of nous.
50. Could he bluff it out, or had he really done it now?
51. Whatever you say, you must be prepared to do; it isn't a game of bluff.
52. So why not bluff and come in from the left? How does that sound to you?
53. In typical fashion Stirling decided on a bluff which had often helped him before.
54. They will have to fight or bluff their way through.
55. When the bluff failed, it is hardly surprising that no-one seriously considered attempting to implement the general strike against war.
56. Culley had climbed a small bluff and crouched down on his heels to clear the skyline.
57. And assuming, of course,(http://sentencedict.com/bluff.html) the call wasn't a double bluff.
58. The students had called the authorities' bluff with their protests and shown solidarity across the country.
59. The bluff is the end of a narrowing tongue of land which would have funnelled the herd to a point.
60. But they admit that many warning signs are just a bluff.
More similar words: fluffybluea blue moonblueberryguffstuffduffermuffledsufficesuffragehandcuffssufficient
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