puffed-up
Example Sentences
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"We found huge variation: some galaxies are beginning to settle into ordered rotation, but most are still chaotic, with gas puffed up and moving in all directions."
From Science Daily • Oct. 30, 2025
As the Yantar pulled into its final stop in Kaliningrad, and the doors unsealed for the final time, he puffed up: "We fear nothing. We are brave."
From Barron's • Oct. 29, 2025
Jackie, who turns 13 this spring, puffed up her feathers, drooped her wings, bore down and released her latest egg, according to the group.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 29, 2025
When puffed up, they “created this really exaggerated shape, just incredibly curvaceous.”
From New York Times • Jan. 2, 2024
Again, as it had before when Liyana saw Omer at lunchtime, the afternoon puffed up lightly, joyously, a delicate pastry, a sweetened shell of hours.
From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye
