puffed-up
Example Sentences
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As usual, Fellowship insiders in other countries puffed up their status at home last year by saying they’d been invited by Congress or even the president.
From Salon • May 29, 2026
"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
When puffed up, they “created this really exaggerated shape, just incredibly curvaceous.”
From New York Times • Jan. 2, 2024
The man puffed up the steps of one of the temple halls.
From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat
