Example Sentences

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It was a time when every presentation sparkled with the possibility of a glamorous TV shoot, and every first dinner with a guy could wind up with me wearing a pouffy white dress.

From Salon • Aug. 31, 2024

“Tim White, who is Beyoncé’s tailor, and the whole wardrobe department literally wanted to kill me with all the pouffy sleeves I kept asking for. And now look! I’m so validated.”

From The Guardian • Sep. 29, 2017

But for an equal number of people it’s a time of dread, weighed down by pouffy dresses, ill-timed rain showers and cringe after cringe spawned from lame toasts.

From New York Times • Jun. 15, 2012

Heidi Klum trusted Siriano, a "Project Runway" alum, to come up with her mushroom-colored strapless gown with a pouffy, asymmetrical hemline.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 19, 2011

Derrida has impossibly spiky yet pouffy, radiantly snow white Beckett-meets-punk-rocker hair.

From Time Magazine Archive