Example Sentences

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Yeh categorizes sweet salads with affection and a wink: cookie salads, Jell-O salads, candy bar salads, fluffs.

From Salon • Apr. 27, 2025

“I realized these fluffs were dead mice that were melted into our oven that I had fed our family with for four years,” she said.

From Washington Post • Sep. 22, 2022

Federer seems safe at 40-15, is pulled back to 40-30, and then deuce when he fluffs his lines and nets a weak backhand.

From The Guardian • Jan. 30, 2020

Which is kind of the problem, because as every SoCal resident knows, palm trees shed, and we’re not talking gentle fluffs of fur.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 28, 2018

While Nadia fluffs up her drooping hair in our bathroom, I go to my room.

From "Invisible Inkling" by Emily Jenkins