puff
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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 answer is frozen puff pastry, one of life’s still-affordable little luxuries.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 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
Minutes later, she spotted the telltale puff of water ahead, not far from Alcatraz.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
The army of demons and rakshas—many of them now little more than melted lumps on the lobby floor of the museum—vanished in a puff of smoke.
From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi
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 naan is then placed in a very hot tandoor until it puffs up and brown spots appear.
From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2025
At certain moments, small air puffs increased the animals' arousal level.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 30, 2025
Bess built them out of two white powder puffs and a plastic headband.
From "Case of the Sneaky Snowman: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #5" by Carolyn Keene
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
And Manchester United's Mateus Cunha made it three after the break on a night where Scotland huffed and puffed, but were ultimately outclassed.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
"I was very puffed out, but I couldn't feel how tired I was."
From Barron's ● Feb. 3, 2026
His back is straight, his chest puffed out.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
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
From the moment the mountain started puffing, Mount St. Helens had become a tourist attraction.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
