chuff

Example Sentences

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“This repertoire — with its contrapuntal extravaganzas, its antiphonal balances, its espousal of instruments that chuff and wheeze and speak directly to a microphone — was made for stereo,” he wrote.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2024

The facility is now allowed to chuff out some 353 tons per year of VOCs, double the limit set out in its original permit eight years ago.

From Reuters • Jun. 24, 2022

The vault's stone hull juts like a shipwreck in the drifted ice while polar bears chuff and lumber past the door.

From Scientific American • Jun. 14, 2022

They’re worried and watching every yawn, roll, cough and chuff from the big cats, who have been lethargic and uninterested in their usual meat slabs.

From Washington Post • Sep. 27, 2021

He let out a chuff of laughter, revealed missing lower incisors.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini