puff
noun
a short, quick blast, as of wind or breath.
unpuffed
-
a word derived from
puff.
Example Sentences
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The danger is, that an unknown author, unpuffed, may be ruined for want of an audience.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 by Various
And it was that instinct which made Rouletabille's last pipe die out unpuffed.
From The Secret of the Night by Gaston Leroux
We run more risk, just now, of being left alone—unread—untalked of—though not, happily, unpuffed by newspapers, who are favorites with the publisher, and owe him courtesies.
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 by Various
