bluffing

Example Sentences

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Hundreds of Eko employees work to shoot products from every angle on movie-studio-style stages, shifting lighting or buffing out fingerprints on metal surfaces as needed.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

In the small studio, workers in ventilation masks were measuring, buffing and painting artificial limbs as Dmitry had his fitting inspected.

From Barron's • Feb. 17, 2026

Hopkins kept busy part of the time with his job cleaning Alcatraz, sweeping the floors and buffing them "until they shined", he said.

From BBC • May 10, 2025

That’s what Silva did during the years he spent washing vehicles at a Honda dealership, buffing cars with such intensity that he tore ligaments in his shoulders.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 1, 2024

“We dig them and polish them right here,” volunteered the Dodecahedron, pointing to a group of workers busily employed at the buffing wheels; “and then we send them all over the world. Marvelous, aren’t they?”

From "The Phantom Tollbooth" by Norton Juster