puffed-up
Example Sentences
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For now, by mostly telling only the happy part of the story, earnings are left puffed up.
From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026
"We found huge variation: some galaxies are beginning to settle into ordered rotation, but most are still chaotic, with gas puffed up and moving in all directions."
From Science Daily • Oct. 30, 2025
None of this is pedantic, nor is it puffed up with moral outrage.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2025
When puffed up, they “created this really exaggerated shape, just incredibly curvaceous.”
From New York Times • Jan. 2, 2024
The next day Mack puffed up the hill carrying a rusty set of springs he had found on a scrap-iron dump.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
