puff
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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 answer is frozen puff pastry, one of life’s still-affordable little luxuries.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
It looked like a blurry part of the ground, like a puff of fir needles and leaves and grass blades.
From "Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer" by Kelly Jones
The menu centers on ultra-creamy hummus bowls served with pillowy pita puffs and topped with everything from falafel to Wagyu shawarma.
From Salon ● Jun. 11, 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
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
At certain moments, small air puffs increased the animals' arousal level.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 30, 2025
In response to Tucker’s question, several large puffs clouded the air.
From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia
Bake for 12 to 15 minutes, until the pastry borders are puffed and beginning to turn golden.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 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
Basil puffed out his narrow chest as he absentmindedly ate one of Matthias’s quince tarts.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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
Inevitably, amid the weekly huffing and puffing, you share stories and life updates with a trainer, who oftentimes becomes a friend.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 1, 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
Despite their far-from-ideal preparations, there was no huffing and puffing from Andreatta and her players.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2025
I missed Katz, missed his puffing and bitching and unflappable fearlessness, hated the thought that I could sit waiting on a rock till the end of time and he would never come.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
