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puffing
adjective as in winded
Weak matches
Example Sentences
It means the seafront ice cream vans are now quiet, with no fumes puffing over the queue of children.
"I was just puffing on gas and air, I couldn't move, I couldn't press a call bell, I couldn't open my eyes, it was as if I was trapped in my own body."
"Huffing and puffing at the back of the court is not the way these proceedings are done," said the unimpressed judge.
Heavily puffing his cheeks out as he left Court One was a sign of the difficulties he had endured on a testing evening from which he will hope to learn.
With mighty Yankee Aaron Judge huffing and puffing at the plate, a lone insistent chant emerged from a Dodger fan lurking in the shadows.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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