puff

Example Sentences

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But The Hollywood Reporter describes the film as "pretty polished and as featherweight as a fawning magazine puff piece".

From BBC • May 1, 2026

One of the only negatives about the film is that there should have been just a little bit more of this, because it feels like they don’t want to puff themselves up too much.

From Salon • Apr. 28, 2026

“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

The lime-green pickup that has taken us around the island lets out one last puff before going completely silent.

From "Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish" by Pablo Cartaya