duff

How To Use duff In A Sentence

• In one media report, a ramp worker was even caught with a duffel bag of ammunition and a gun at work.
• A group of promising young musicians, accompanied by Peter Duffy, played a selection of polkas, marches, and the lovely air ‘Inis Oirr’.
• The cash was frittered in duff property deals, paying off debts and treating her family. The Sun
• The infant Isabella from her coign to do obeisance toward the duffgerent, as first futherer with drawn brand. Finnegans Wake
• And, despite some stout defence, a feature of York's game this season, they were unable to prevent scrum half Duffy from scoring from short range.
• Some critics will accuse Duffy of acting as apologist for a campaign of violent repression, but this would scarcely be fair: “confronted by the sanctified savageries of the Tudor age, it would be a hard heart that withheld pity from the victims or felt no indignation against the perpetrators”. A Not so Bloody Mary ?
• Later she took the impenitent young 'duffer' a tea cunningly designed to appeal to his rebellious heart, and spread it neatly on the big dimity-covered box in his bedroom; but Dick was implacable. The Gold-Stealers A Story of Waddy
• At length, perhaps, all are rewarded by the welcome sight of a tiny trickle in one corner, or perhaps the hole turns out a "duffer," and the weary, weary work must be commenced again in a fresh spot. Spinifex and Sand
• Note however, that your tailbone is, after all, located in your duff and a hard fall at too sharp an angle will either bruise or fracture the tailbone.
• When someone is terminated, sit down with each employee individually and tell them why that happened, Duffy says.