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

Now, in an apparent puff of smoke, it may all have gone.

From BBC • Jan. 21, 2026

It disappears almost as soon as I see it—takes off down the block, and I’ve caught nothing but a flash of black eyes and a puff of orangey fur—but I’m sure it’s Inkling.

From "Invisible Inkling" by Emily Jenkins