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Bluff in sentence

65 examples of Bluff in a sentence

But even Draghi’s bazooka is partly a bluff.
The difference now is that the EU’s bluff may be called.
All negotiations between debtors and creditors involve bluff and bluster to some extent.
German and European Union policymakers are calling his bluff.
If it does, the world should call its bluff.
Is this all a bluff?
There is obviously some element of bluff in legislating balanced budgets.
Europe Versus GazpromNEW YORK – For years, Russian President Vladimir Putin has wielded Europe’s dependence on his country’s natural gas as a foreign-policy weapon, without fear of the European Union calling his bluff – until now.
They could follow North Korea by sacrificing economic prosperity for nuclear breakout, and hope that US and Israeli talk of “all options” being on the table to stop their efforts is a bluff; or they could pursue economic prosperity by forgoing a nuclear-weapons capacity, and hope that a Libya-style revolt does not envelope the country and doom the regime to a fate like that of Qaddafi.
We were bluffing, but our bluff worked.
The regulators called his bluff and forced him to resign.
But what if US adversaries decide to call Trump’s bluff?
With ISIS essentially defeated and dispersed, Trump called the establishment’s bluff.
Russia called America’s bluff, backed Assad, and Iran provided vital support as well.
But it was a bluff that should have been called.
It was no bluff.
If corporate America is still dragging its feet now, we should call its bluff.
But, as India’s patience wears thin, a limited war that calls the Pakistani generals’ nuclear bluff is no longer inconceivable.
And yet, the threat of NATO aggression has increasingly become a bluff, and both Lukashenko and Putin know it.
The “breach” of the WA is a calculated bluff based on the government’s belief that it can honor the result of the 2016 Brexit referendum only by deploying considerable chicanery.
We will soon know whether Johnson’s bluff meets this sensible standard.
But what if Johnson’s rigid 12-month deadline is just a bluff?
About midnight Tom arrived with a boiled ham and a few trifles, and stopped in a dense undergrowth on a small bluff overlooking the meeting-place.
It was answered from under the bluff.
Then Tom tumbled his ham over the bluff and let himself down after it, tearing both skin and clothes to some extent in the effort.
There was an easy, comfortable path along the shore under the bluff, but it lacked the advantages of difficulty and danger so valued by a pirate.
When they were several miles below "Cave Hollow," Tom said: "Now you see this bluff here looks all alike all the way down from the cave hollow--no houses, no wood-yards, bushes all alike.
Christmas was close at hand, in all his bluff and hearty honesty; it was the season of hospitality, merriment, and open-heartedness; the old year was preparing, like an ancient philosopher, to call his friends around him, and amidst the sound of feasting and revelry to pass gently and calmly away.
Pickwick, I thank you most heartily for all your kindness to my son,' said old Mr. Winkle, in a bluff, straightforward way.
He was kind to her also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they seemed to be a happy couple.
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