puff
Example Sentences
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“Sometimes you feel like to be powerful you want to puff up and be louder,” McEwen says.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 2026
They can’t recreate every wind puff and ocean eddy, so they divide the world into a 3-D grid and generate myriad variables for each box, from soil temperature to ocean salinity.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026
Phil Salt called on England to puff their chests out, stand up and keep their T20 World Cup hopes alive, saying on Friday that when they bring their A-game "sides can't live with us".
From Barron's • Feb. 13, 2026
"The upper engine that expelled a puff of smoke appears to wind down almost immediately afterwards," Mr Chan said.
From BBC • Nov. 5, 2025
If Mama has a whole lotta bad days in a row, Charlie ends up with her hair in this crazy Afro puff that doesn’t get combed.
From "Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero" by Kelly J. Baptist
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.