Example Sentences

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United are huffing and puffing but unable to find a way past this organised City defence.

From BBC • Mar. 22, 2024

"If you are huffing and puffing and unable to hold a conversation for some of that time you have hit the sweet spot."

From Science Daily • Sep. 29, 2023

The Peloton user submits to the uncharted terrain of Cody’s World; he decides when we are cruising down a flat road and when we are huffing up a hill.

From New York Times • Mar. 16, 2021

But what’s sad here is, neither do the reporters who are huffing and puffing about this folderol.

From Newsweek • Mar. 10, 2015

“Ten Chimneys” is more fun when it’s dishing bits of stage lore than when the characters are huffing and puffing over misalliances and infatuations.

From New York Times • Oct. 4, 2012