puffed

Example Sentences

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As usual, Fellowship insiders in other countries puffed up their status at home last year by saying they’d been invited by Congress or even the president.

From Salon • May 29, 2026

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

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

She’d lost her ponytail rubber band on the trampoline, and her hair had puffed out again like so much dandelion fuzz.

From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix