puffing up
Example Sentences
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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
Forced to slow down, the man who believed “hiking is for people who can’t run” found himself huffing and puffing up a peak in Griffith Park.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2024
Grand Douglas fir trees loomed over the participants as they began their day puffing up a trail at Shoreview Park.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 14, 2024
The personal puffing up that occurs when too much power is bestowed too lavishly upon one person is rewardingly transparent at the start of Lear’s downward spiral.
From Washington Post • Mar. 3, 2023
In the end his father would admit that she was, and his mother would cry and cry, in a bed surrounded by a tangle of clothes, her eyes puffing up like bullfrogs.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
