puff
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Shredded rotisserie chicken, swiped with Boursin and tucked into the puff pastry you “always keep in the freezer” in case someone drops by with Champagne?
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026
They are petards, locally called kaxxa spanjola, designed to make noise and a small puff of smoke without anything visible in the sky.
From Slate ● Jun. 6, 2026
The final scene, in which Titus enters dressed as a chef, a cream puff of a toque jauntily placed on his head—he’s baked those unpalatable pies—retains its deranged tone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026
You could puff away on aeroplanes, in hospitals and in offices.
From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2026
He pulled out his inhaler and took a puff.
From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen
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 process involves a special oven that chills the product, heats it, steals away its moisture and puffs it up.
From BBC ● Dec. 5, 2025
Bougie Gougies are exactly that: French-style frozen cheese puffs, made with gruyère and comté, that bake to golden perfection in just 20 minutes straight from the freezer.
From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2025
At certain moments, small air puffs increased the animals' arousal level.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 30, 2025
The people of Isfahan ventured to the center of the strange neighborhood to stand in line, before the famed bakery of Akh Tamar, just for six of his cream puffs.
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
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
Think crescent dough wrapped around ribbons of honey ham and Swiss, each ball bathed in a poppy-seed-studded glaze of butter, Dijon, Worcestershire, and a hint of brown sugar, then baked until puffed, golden, and gleaming.
From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2025
As the Yantar pulled into its final stop in Kaliningrad, and the doors unsealed for the final time, he puffed up: "We fear nothing. We are brave."
From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2025
Not too long after that, Keaton flew across the country to New York where several things happened in short succession that would have puffed up anyone else’s ego.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2025
Håkon puffed breath in and out, still managing to sound skeptical through his panting.
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
On Reddit, one user criticised the staging, which they described as a man "huffing and puffing around an exam hall".
From BBC ● May 14, 2026
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
On Monday, the Navy veteran told reporters that Hegseth’s machismo came off like a child puffing up his chest.
From Salon ● 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
I raced behind Cedar on the trail to our shelter, with Steve puffing heavily behind us.
From "Klawde: Evil Alien Warlord Cat" by Johnny Marciano and Emily Chenoweth
