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Sentence Examples He was wearing his work uniform, his hair flying in his face as he skidded to a stop before them, huffing and puffing from the exertion. He finds her standing on the terrace in an old cashmere pullover, puffing on her morning cigarette. He reminded his frantically puffing audience that smoking was a well-known antidote to the predations of the great horse fly, or cleg. But such girls smoked effetely, holding the cigarette between thumb and index finger like a European, puffing the smoke out without inhaling it. With three adults on board, it was huffing and puffing up some of the steeper inclines. Private Aye predicts a photo opportunity and there may even be an interview granted to puffing hacks when he reaches the summit. Qantas remains quietly confident that after some initial huffing and puffing, and even some limited protests, all unions will come into line. Eventually all the beautiful people were puffing robustos and coronas while schmoozing, partying and sauntering among the paparazzi. Even the frog took a turn, standing on a shoebox and puffing his cheeks out so hard that he turned purple. During the breeding season, groups of males do their courtship display together, puffing out air sacs in their chest and spreading their tails. Or maybe its a little pugilistic prestidigitation to avoid showing an aging action queen huffing and puffing in between roundhouses. At least on the streets there was no pretend law being bothered with in a pretend way, just people puffing, victimising only themselves. I remember the smokestack on the train puffing thick black smoke into the air. He filled it with tobacco and lit it, puffing the sweet smelling smoke around the car. Lionel was puffing, and his speech came haltingly, in short phrases and words. Casey ran around the small oval, puffing and panting, limping on her left foot, the blister throbbing excruciatingly. I'll be back this week, puffing and panting away in the outside lane while grey heads rocket past me at the speed of sound. But it didn't matter, for at that moment, the door burst open, and a short man entered the room, puffing and wheezing heavily. We sat in silence for a few minutes until our peace was shattered as a messenger ran up to us, puffing and panting. She slid into the seat behind me, huffing and puffing like she was breathing with one lung. Show More Sentences Mack pounded over to them, puffing and panting like he'd just run the marathon. Sometimes he would throw himself down on the towel rack, panting and puffing in total exhaustion. To his left and right, men broke from the packing of their supplies to watch him run down the row, steam puffing from the horse's nostrils. Mist on the mountain draws me back sun on the sea so grand steam trains puffing on the railroad track away in the Isle of Man. The first shot we get of the title character is his puffing breathlessly across a rooftop, face buggy-eyed. She noticed that she had crawled under the table, puffing and breathing hard. Rain poured down, stinging her eyes, warm breath puffing in front of her face. Holding on to the halter around the neck of the cow as he tried to settle the riled up animal, was David, with two puffing dogs at his heels. His mouth got wider than it seemed possible, puffing short bursts of air out trying to make it sound like a laugh. He was puffing in short breaths and barely noticed his daughter pointing in the direction ahead of her. It's not fun, it does hurt, abominably, and I do feel like a lumbering bear, huffing and puffing like Pooh on a bad day. Alternatively cooked and extruded rice products can be similarly improved with torula yeast prior to puffing. Much of the travel was aboard a charming little narrow-gauge railway train hauled by elderly puffing steam locomotives. The corridor is usually full of people puffing away and a thick blanket of smoke hangs in the air. He was sitting on his porch, as always, rocking in his rocking chair and puffing on his pipe. I sighed, watching my breath catch as condensation in the air, looking like I was puffing smoke. Most smokers know they will get lung cancer, but they continue puffing away. Bill is puffing and blowing, but there is a look of ineffable peace and growing content on his rose-pink features. It is a million miles away from the romantic shots of steam trains puffing their way across rural landscapes that most of us are used to. The Dynamo was accustomed to puffing his way through 40 unfiltered cigarettes a day, mainly in his office or his car, both now out of bounds. Show More Sentences His light brown hair waved back almost to his shoulders while still puffing outward slightly. He was huffing and puffing something fierce, distending his cheeks with every exhalation. An old man, whose face looked as if he'd been soaking in water too long, snuck glances at me while puffing on a cigarette. I saw one guy guzzling a bottle of beer, another puffing happily on a joint. He was upright in an instant, huffing and puffing with such violence that his entire body seemed to quake and quiver with every breath. But while such signs of speculation are troubling, there is little solid evidence that a real estate bubble is puffing up. I could hear the billowing of her flannelette nightie as she swooped down the hallway, huffing and puffing with determination. As the man comes closer, you notice he is puffing at a pipe, while the other hand is buried deep in the pocket of his coat. I don't think any amount of huffing and puffing across the political divide is going to change Greencore's calculated business decision. Sir David Lock, the picture's central figure, sits puffing on a hookah while enjoying a naatch and surrounded by obeisant courtiers. They are so preoccupied with puffing up their own image and self-esteem that everything else just has to go hang. It caused uproar at the time, but the wily Italian must be sitting back with a smug smile, puffing on that metaphorical cigar. Be prepared for a stiff climb, but the sundial and the view of Houghton and Hillbrow is worth the huffing and puffing. Again despite all the huffing and puffing, despite Cork's famous facility for interpreting the rule-book to suit themselves, that was wrong too. It's difficult to imagine him as anything but the Dean of Students, as some lowly history major puffing on swag. So all the huffing and puffing from Free TV Australia is just special interest hot air. Huston merely strolls around on the sidelines, puffing a cigarillo and looking rueful. By the time Mr. Mineo had everything under control, he was huffing and puffing with the exertion. Bert blew on his knuckles, like a gunman puffing smoke from the barrel of his revolver. The image of anxious and world-weary detectives puffing frantically on cigarettes outside interview rooms may still be a hallmark of TV drama. Show More Sentences They're off, huffing and puffing through this grueling physical education training under a blazing sun that's far away from home. Inexperienced writers may choose the obvious detail, the man puffing on the cigarette, the young woman chewing on what's left of her fingernails. These days the restaurant's patrons are more likely to be talking about multimedia money than to be philosophically puffing Gauloise smoke into the air. In the spring, the male attracts females by gobbling, puffing his feathers, spreading his tail, swelling his face wattles, and drooping his wings. He glanced back at Vincent, who was puffing and wheezing from the walk down the tunnel under the burden of ammunition, weapons and the oppressive heat of his coat. I quite like the thought of it being written in a staff room by bored and bearded school teachers, puffing on pipes and whiling away dreary lunch breaks. He'd pitch in at family parties, passing salami, praising Mom's baked ziti, while my dad and the uncles sat silently puffing cigars, trying to sneak peeks at the ballgame. The pale, baby-faced, red-cheeked rapper is furiously puffing away at a hastily-made blunt crammed with low-grade weed. Spain won, hallelujah, but not after much huffing and puffing to go alongside their geometric, incisive elegance on the ball. When he's not munching his way through a plate of bacon sarnies he's puffing away steadily on a succession of Gitanes, which no doubt help explain that gravelly voice. He looked like such a fool, pointing and gesturing and huffing and puffing. One wonders whether the government is huffing and puffing to cover up its own incompetence. Castle built geese with wings puffing out from their bodies by layering pieces of cardboard then stitching them together. He was wearing a deer stalker's outfit, puffing on a pipe and wearing a monocle, or would have been wearing a monocle if it weren't swinging in the air beneath him. Taylor wasn't the only Scottish forward puffing and blowing towards the end of the game, and when it came to tempo there was only one team dictating it. A smoking room in public places and office buildings would definitely be a better alternative to having people clumped around the entrances to public places puffing away. The busker paused to thank her with a smile, before raising the saxophone to his lips and puffing out his cheeks like he'd just consumed a ten-pin bowling ball. At one stage the boys were huffing and puffing a bit but when the supporters shouted from the side I knew I had to pull my socks up and give it my all. It was noon next day when he stood on the platform, the train breathing steam alongside like an impatient dragon or an old scholar puffing poppy heads. I'm sweating, huffing and puffing, smelling of lake, and trying not to swallow the bugs that keep hitting me in the face as I speed along the trail. Show More Sentences Yes, I know that I just got through telling you that I've got my windows open, but I'm not out there huffing and puffing lots of the nasty stuff into my lungs. I could hear Milly huffing and puffing with the exertion of it. The readers who were huffing and puffing in Downer's defence, or accusing you of gutter journalism, most likely have their snouts in various troughs themselves. But he was completely cool, puffing fatalistically on a cigarette. I'd reached a point where I could play blues harmonica reasonably competently, without just huffing and puffing and blowing anything that came into my head. The resulting amalgamation of sleek new blocks and bustling malls is worlds away from the conventional image of porticoes, pediments and municipal chest puffing. Even with his offending ankle numbed by a painkiller shot, he appeared uncomfortable, huffing and puffing and repeatedly tying his shoe between pitches. And being Scottish we have about four layers of clothing too many and are pink-faced and puffing in a decidedly imperfect not straight-out-of-a-brochure kind of a way. In Victoria Square, under a clear blue sky with the frost just off the grass and a crowd puffing little balls of steam into the air, a mass of bands waited for the off. We drew apart, the mist from our breath puffing into each other's faces. During rush hour in the mornings and afternoons, Caribbean cities are dominated by metal, plastic and rubber objects, puffing hydrocarbons and other gases into the atmosphere. She lit up a cigarette and began puffing at it unconsciously. By the time they turn 15, they're puffing on 15 cigarettes every day. He'd sit there and stare into space, puffing at his cigarette. This may be because when he started mixing up a bucket in the new kitchen, billows of dust began puffing under the doors onto my new upstairs carpets. The brick chimney was puffing little gray rings of wood smoke. This involves the male of the species puffing his chest up, spreading his tail feathers widely and dragging it on the ground as he chases young females round. Sterne then wrote a letter puffing his work which he passed off as the spontaneous praise of the young singer, Catherine Fourmantel, then his mistress. Pamela took a deep breath, expelled it slowly, puffing her cheeks out. Outside, shalom Harlow was puffing away at a hand rolled cigarette. Show More Sentences After fertilization for 18-20 h, the presumptive zygotes were denuded of cumulus cells and attached sperms by repeated puffing with a pipette. Blowin' out here would be more like wailing into the heavenly vonce, rather then huffing and puffing changes in a dark cellar. The killjoy move was last night slammed by Tom and Jerry fans and even had the anti-smoking group Ash puffing and blowing. As Lehman, Breuler is sluggish, coarse, and lumpy, huffing and puffing his way arthritically about the stage like some 1930s crime-movie heavy. The Lipsync mouth-operated joystick enables the user to move a computer cursor, while sipping and puffing triggers clicking and right clicking. They were short of ideas, huffing and puffing their way towards a demoralising defeat. But Minihan denied he was smoking a cigarette and was instead puffing on a nicotine atomiser, designed to help him kick his 30-year habit. I fiddle and scrape and poke for a while, banging out the dottle from my previous pipeful into an ashtray and puffing down the stem like a horn player warming up his trumpet. After a lifetime of puffing on his Havanos, Castro is largely as fit as a fiddle and still writing and lecturing on his personal experiment with Marxist Leninism. In the late afternoon when the ground is squishingly soft and soggy and the grass can be peeled loose from the earth, along comes Mother's aunt, puffing down the road. I don't doubt I'd be pants at puffing hard in hot places, and though I do know some cracking science words, like positron, my knowledge of physics is full of black holes. The Reverend John Flynn, a man of simple tastes, was always recognisable in the outback, dressed in a suit, driving an old ute and puffing on a pipe. He was still puffing away right up until the doctor diagnosed his cancer, and only gave up then because he was too weak to leave the room to have a cigarette. Examples from Classical Literature There are shouts of the men, clanking of chains, and puffing of locomotives. The explorer was puffing at his briar luxuriously, and turned to the doctor. It was Sheriff Coogan, puffing and huffing, the metal-and-gold cloth uniform ludicrous on his lanky frame. Captain Candage was stumping the quarter-deck, puffing at his short, black pipe. That was done by a great deal of piecing, not to say puffing, of her frame. He got to his feet and rolled about the room, like a boozy sailor, puffing out volumes of smoke and muttering beneath his breath. Shouts were heard, mingled with the puffing and spluttering of internal-combustion engines. To begin with, there was the petrol engine at that moment puffing and rumbling in the shop. Garstin had said of him in a puffing breath one day when the palette knife had been angrily used once more. As I sat waiting in the douane, I felt like puffing out and growing to make room for Russia inside me. Round the earner from his lodgings on a side street and in darkness, stood a big car with the motor puffing violently. Long plain sleeves, ornamented round the top with a puffing of silk, forming an epaulette. Philip could hear no more for the puffing of the steam and the clanking of the chains. The large car was puffing impatiently to be on the road, when a gayly bedecked personage emerged from the areaway. The farrier was puffing his pipe rather fiercely, in some contempt at this trivial discussion. Coachman comes out with his waybill, and puffing a fat cigar which the sportsman has given him. He walked off with Freda, puffing at his thin roll of caporal. Covey at length let me go, puffing and blowing at a great rate, saying that if I had not resisted, he would not have whipped me half so much. Meanwhile, Stubb retaining his place in the van, still encouraged his men to the onset, all the while puffing the smoke from his mouth. Pence Oiler, the ferryman, sat in the corner puffing at a cob pipe. Show More Sentences The large man drew out a red case, and extracted a great yellow meerschaum, out of which, a moment later, he was puffing thick wreaths of smoke. And the Griqua, puffing and perspiring, did put his best foot forward. In a dozen leaps and bounds, he came to the village, tired out, puffing like a whale, and with tongue hanging. But the Tug, suddenly lightened, and untrammelled by having any weight in tow, was already puffing away into the distance. I inquired, as he kept puffing and slapping on with unwearied constancy. Nowadays it's either a secret puffer next door or there's Billy Bunter the grunter, puffing and panting. After we did this with much huffing and puffing, we backed up to admire our handywork. There was a bit of huffing and puffing but I made it to the living room for a good post-prandial whinge about how awful the TV is this year. After much huffing and puffing about the bus service and a public meeting nothing has or will happen. And finally, when they got out their pipes and went serenely puffing around, the very summit of glory was reached. And still puffing at his pipe, Stubb cheered on his crew to the assault. Harbour porpoises are sometimes called the puffing pig as the creatures can be heard making puffing noises from the shoreline as they take a breath on the surface. I thought it very dreadful, but the cows went on eating very quietly, and hardly raised their heads as the black frightful thing came puffing and grinding past. When the boat, creaking, and groaning, and puffing, had loosed from the wharf, and was beginning slowly to strain herself along, the woman returned to her old seat. A crazy hand-rail ran up one wall, so I carefully flattened myself against the other, and he passed within six inches of me, puffing and wheezing like a brass band. Others having broken the stems of their pipes almost short off at the bowl, were vigorously puffing tobacco-smoke, so that it constantly filled their olfactories. But we saw him just the same, a-snorting for shore like a puffing pig. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of puffing? Words that rhyme with puffing What is the plural of puffing? What is the adverb for puffing? What is the adjective for puffing? What is the noun for puffing? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words puffiness puffin puffery puffers pufferfish puffer puffins puffs puffy pug puggaree puggle 7-letter Words Starting With p pu puf puff puffi puffin