Example Sentences
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Robin is enduring a nightmare version of a party at which every unfamiliar face huffily claims they’ve met you before.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
She pauses to consider, and, as if this is a favor I've asked, she huffily replies that she will make five.
From Salon ● Dec. 11, 2022
Limbaugh, huffily presiding over his vitriolic fiefdom, had accidentally gotten it right: Feminists, like any reasonable humans, didn’t want another group of people to exercise control over them based on their gender.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 19, 2021
“People can imagine what we are doing,” he said huffily.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 1, 2019
Captain Snow shifted from one foot to the other, muttering huffily, “Me, in the wrong? Never. I won’t apologize to that cat! I refuse to!”
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
