puff
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Even the most abrasive moments are calibrated to present Lisa in a good light - but the director credits the star with ensuring the film was not a mere puff piece.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
A 12-course banquet of huff and puff finally brought to an end by one of the few bouts of coherent football that led to Ryan Naderi's winner.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
One man’s fixation is another man’s repulsive, venomous puff adder.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
More impressively, Melton manages to exhale a puff of smoke so thick that cinematographer Magnus Nordenhof Jønck can still see it through the set’s fog.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
The little puff on each side shone, too, and the ends were coiled and twisted neatly under the big knot in the back.
From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
“Don’t you see?” they ask between puffs of their Parliaments.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
In a private audio recording leaked to the Canadian Press, Vance reportedly went on to say that Carney "comes in and puffs his chest out and says: 'I'm going to, like, out-tough Donald Trump.'"
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Tolkan was also well known for drilling Maverick and Goose with swift reprimands and tough love between puffs of his cigar as their commanding officer, Tom “Stinger” Jardian, in the 1986 blockbuster “Top Gun.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2026
Grandfather, who puffs on Gauloises cigarettes, resembles Baroness Orczy’s Old Man in the Corner, an armchair detective who solves crimes from the confines of a London tea shop.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
The smell from it, rich and tempting, swirled up with the puffs of steam from the boiling rice.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
Bake: Bake 20 to 25 minutes, until puffed and deeply golden.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
An October 1992 Texaco refinery explosion in Wilmington blew out windows, shook houses like an earthquake and puffed out potentially toxic vapor that went downwind.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
Her mother was one of 2,075 brides wearing the “Blessing Dress,” a white polyester and satin gown with puffed sleeves and a modest high neckline.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026
"I was very puffed out, but I couldn't feel how tired I was."
From Barron's ● Feb. 3, 2026
I puffed up my cheeks as big as I could get them.
From "The World According to Humphrey" by Betty G. Birney
He eventually entered to find his boss, Winston Churchill, and Gen. Charles de Gaulle, the leader of the Free French, puffing cigars and “sitting side by side with amiable expressions on their faces.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 2026
As the 21-year-old got to her feet, puffing out her cheeks in disbelief and surrounded by all of her team-mates, there was a broad smile on her face.
From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2025
With mighty Yankee Aaron Judge huffing and puffing at the plate, a lone insistent chant emerged from a Dodger fan lurking in the shadows.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2025
When the biscuits bake, the water in the butter turns to steam, puffing up the dough to form delicate, crisp layers.
From Salon ● Mar. 20, 2025
“They make this noise when they’re playing. It’s not exactly panting. More like a puffing sound, sort of. But they think it could be dog laughter.”
From "Crenshaw" by Katherine Applegate
