Example Sentences

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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

But that’s not to say that “expertise” is something we ought to huffily defend from the top down.

From The Guardian • Jan. 9, 2020

It’s Javier who can’t stand the stop-and-start quality of the talk around the dining table and has to act out his displeasure, huffily getting up and making a performance of his dishwashing at the sink.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 3, 2019

I’m not even talking about what Taranto huffily refers to as “contemporary society’s expectation that young women be at least as career-minded as young men.”

From Salon • Apr. 2, 2013

“You ought to be in bed,” he said huffily, mad at himself for cutting her down.

From "Bridge to Terabithia" by Katherine Paterson