Example Sentences

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There is some speculation that Yeltsin will declare a state of emergency this week, and he has huffed and puffed about drastic measures, including one freeing prices from state control.

From Time Magazine Archive

I am denied by this barbarous woman to go to church, as I had built upon I might: and she has huffed poor Mr. Williams all to pieces, for pleading for me.

From Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Richardson, Samuel

I never contradict a lady, because it’s not polite; but since I explained, the old woman has huffed, and won’t trust me with half a quartern—will she, Moonshine?”

From Olla Podrida by Marryat, Frederick