pfft

Example Sentences

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The water was full of life—darting fish in blues and oranges, something flat and silver-gray moving along the sand of the ocean bed beneath them—and Ratwin caught twelve large prawns, spitting them one by one onto the deck with a soft pfft and then sitting back to wash her horn with her forepaws.

From Literature

“Pfft, your accent gets worse by the day. You sound like an American,” she said, taking a couple of the bags over the threshold and pulling him into a quick hug.

From Literature

Rogers replied, "One day they all came for me like 'Matt has ADHD' and I was like 'Pfft stop!' Now I'm like, 'I do!'"

From Salon

“O.J. gets right on top of you, looks you in the eye and then — pfft — he’s gone,” former Pittsburgh Steelers defensive lineman Joe Greene told Newsweek in 1975.

From Los Angeles Times

“He’s like, ‘Well, I think it’s going to surprise you, what the result is,’ and I’m like, ‘Pfft. OK, surprise me,’ ” recalled Norton, who’s worked homicide cases for 22 years.

From Seattle Times