pfft
Example Sentences
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“O.J. gets right on top of you, looks you in the eye and then — pfft — he’s gone,” former Pittsburgh Steelers defensive lineman Joe Greene told Newsweek in 1975.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2024
It all went pfft — there was no legitimate NFT.
From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2021
He answered with a pfft, a mumble and a head-twisting shrug — a combination of gestures that suggested “yes,” “somewhat,” “maybe” and “never.”
From Washington Post • Apr. 8, 2015
A halibut fillet, a tiny pyramid of goats' cheese, a bunch of grapes … pfft!
From The Guardian • Nov. 23, 2012
Buford the mechanical table sat in the corner on sleep mode, making little steamy snores: Shhhy pfft, shh, pfft.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
