Example Sentences

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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

I apologized and put the phone away, feeling crass and ignorant, like I might as well have puffed cigarette smoke in her face.

From Slate • Mar. 16, 2021

Its $420 floral cotton dresses have puffed shoulders and a ruffled Peter Pan collar.

From Washington Post • Jul. 19, 2018

The cows had been dead for enough time to have puffed up and rolled onto their sides with their legs in the air.

From The Verge • Mar. 9, 2018

But some o' thar raids inter Texas have puffed 'em up.

From Bring Me His Ears by Mulford, Clarence E.