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.
They fell in love, she got up the duff, he panicked and they're getting married.
Yes, it's our fault in a certain measure that Billy is the awful "duffer" he is. Parkhurst Boys And Other Stories of School Life
The emu is like a walking sofa or a duffle coat on legs. The Sun
He is the lovable old duffer with the frantic, ants-in-the-pants commentating style.
At all of the Grand Slam tournaments, our sponsors load us each up with 2 full duffle bags of the latest gear.
Get them off their duff because something that they finally care about, their own bodies, their own choices, their own freedom is being affected.
Astrid Stawiarz for The Wall Street Journal Chef Jacques Pepin "Ace of Cakes" star Duff Goldman, who created the five-foot cake for the evening, stood out among the black-tie attired guests in jeans, a T-shirt and a leather jacket. Raising a Toast to Culinary Masters
Having queued in order to buy a paper, some old duffer just walks in front of me in order to get served.
Passage meet Ballyduff Upper in the County intermediate final at Walsh Park on Sunday next and the game is being eagerly looked forward to in the village and indeed around the barony.
Duff attacks down the left wing, but his ball is headed away by Sulimani.
He proceeded to duff his next two shots and was 150 yards out when he hit his 4th shot into the hole for a birdie four.
Every morning Madam Duff goes on to the beach to plead with young men intent of gambling their lives in a quest for an eldorado in Europe.
However, I'm reminded of an episode of Ace of Cakes where Duff's crew did a very detailed ear as a gift from a patient to his surgeon after a procedure that gave the patient his hearing back. *g* Though to be honest the decorator was a bit creeped out, IIRC... This'll Cure that Freaky Fetish
Or after we followed the duff advice of a legal journalist in a newspaper?
She was holding a duffel bag and pair of high heels in one hand, and a bottle of Tylenol in the other.
And he worries that duff commercial property loans will bring down more small and medium-sized banks. Times, Sunday Times
Among the most popular items include a gray fleeced duffle coat with hood at $14.
What was he going to do, duff me up on the street in front of dozens of people?
The other campers were currently tossing down their duffels.
He made him a life peer in 1998 along with a whole load of other buddies once he'd shipped out some of the old duffers with legislative reform.
But O'Duffy's admiration for the sheer effrontery of the man persisted, and he arranged for another trial to be held in conjunction with the Irish championships.
He duffed the golf ball because the club stroke the ground behind the ball before hitting it.
With two quicksteps Duff caught her and turned her to face him. When the Lion Feeds
He wore a baseball cap, light-coloured jogging bottoms, trainers and a big woolly duffel-type coat with a hood.
PHILLIPS: Well, just say "doh," and get ready to raise a Duff beer to America's first family of dysfunction. CNN Transcript May 18, 2007
Son of Banquo, Fleance escapes Macbeth's murderous rampage and flees to England where he helps Macduff mount the insurrection that unthrones Macbeth.
September 3rd, 2009 LONDON - Welsh singer Duffy, real name Aimee Ann Duffy, is said to be dating British Lions rugby star Mike Phillips. Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
When finally he is convinced that Macduff is sincere, however, he retracts his self-denigration and explains why he has lied in this peculiar fashion.
But with Duff now gone, Souness is struggling to find a natural left-footed replacement and Mahon could end up saving his manager millions in the transfer market.
With compilation albums you always get at least one or two duff tracks, because someone else's idea of what makes a good compilation will never fit in with your own idea.
Yet as a minister he struck duff notes. Times, Sunday Times
The only duff dish was an underpowered duck curry. Times, Sunday Times
So I packed my duffel bag. Christianity Today
Don't you think something should be done about it, or at least tell the old duffers to stop making fools of themselves?
It doesn't matter if you're a duffer or a scratch golfer, there are a wide variety of courses with unique layouts and challenges for golfers of all skill levels.
All the aforesaid dufferdom, therefore, increases the burden of the taxpayer. Yet Again
Duff has indeed expressed the wish to be re-reunited with his old mucker after the latter finishes his spell in one of Her Majesty's penal institutions, noting: ‘I can't believe a stupid fight came to this.’
An equally well worked move resulted in Duffy raising the green flag at the other end.
The airbrush motor hums, and my cake is transformed like magic, with a little of what Duff calls pixie dust. Let Me Eat Cake
They wear peaked caps, and heavy duffle coats, on top of neat uniforms.
Duff explained his meaning shortly but clearly.
It's part flea market, part international bazaar, part Dufferin Mall.
Chris unzipped the black duffle bag on his bed, chuckling softly to himself as he searched for an extra t-shirt.
One moment there's a duff melodramatic twist. Times, Sunday Times
He denies the claims that he got Courtney up the duff.
The extras seem well selected, and there's not a duff model in the entire line up.
The Dukes Playhouse is presenting Grimm Tales as its annual open-air theatre event - an adaption by Carol Ann Duffy of folk stories collected by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm.
And there can hardly be a married woman alive who hasn't, many times, felt inclined to duff up her husband, if not actually to wring his neck.
More voluntary helpers are needed in Kilconduff cemetery on Saturday mornings at 10 am to help with the digging, cleaning, strimming and weeding.
'I bet you,' said Ellie severely,'one million squillion pounds that by the time we do this plan, Annabel will be up the duff anyway. LOOKING FOR ANDREW MCCARTHY
Then I set my duffle down and put my pillow on the ground and spread out my blanket.
The trades seemed premised on anxieties over tighter discretionary spending, driven by higher oil, Interactive Brokers equity options analyst Caitlin Duffy wrote in a client report. Libya Worries Hit Options on U.S. Oil Fund
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Finnan loops a cross into the box, and Keane heads the ball down into Duff's path.
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But of the elderly women who came there, not many had so far changed the fashion of their youth as to cover the white "mutch" with anything but a handkerchief in the summertime, or with a shawl, or with the hood of the mantle of scarlet or grey duffel, when the weather was cold. Allison Bain, or, By a Way she knew not
You might wonder if there was a politician anywhere who looked more pitiful than newly duffed up Judy Brown who was so amazed that Mr. Punch out in a appearance ate HOP. Archive 2007-10-07
Up front, Duffield and McNiven, in particular, were industrious, offering the long sought after stickability for City's too often overworked midfield and defence.
There's bendroflumethiazide and also cyclophosphamide, And metoclopramide, acetazolamide, tropicamide Loperamide, amiloride and cyclizine and frusemide, And if you're up the duff then you'd best avoid thalidomide. WN.com - Articles related to Freedom to set prices key for UK drugs industry
If any character ever needed canine companionship, it was the old duffer in that play.
Duff explained his meaning shortly but clearly.
He has produced a duff documentary.
She's got this cute little duffle coat on and a bobble hat with her hair sticking out the bottom.
Aside from how deeply I dislike the idea of sacking someone for talking about the creative process comics are apparently like sausages and laws: if you like the finished product, you should never find out how they're made, it's of interest to me, of course, because McDuffie directly namechecks Black Canary. Dwayne McDuffie fired from JLA
The Macduff Circle at Edinburgh's Dean Gallery is one of several sculptures by Bristol-born Long dedicated to his Scottish rambles.
Upon this occasion the "chaw" created such a disturbance that (on audacious demand) leave was granted to the Duffer and John to capture the offender. The Hill A Romance of Friendship
You literally crawl in the dank, damp forest trying to find disturbances in the duff where animals may have been rooting around.
The commodore pressed the young pirate, taking the aggressive stance Duff was used to taking, and forcing him to block more than he was used to.
Duffy Pratt: Sorry, but a commodity is a fungible good — goods which come to market in such a way that they are not readily distinguishable one from theother. The Volokh Conspiracy » An Act for the Relief of Sick and Disabled Seamen
Jim Duffy made no attempt to hide from the reality of his side's shortcomings.
Cunningly, there is a cool duffle bag in colours to match in which to carry your towel and bestseller. Times, Sunday Times
Inuit women sewed parkas from tanned animal hides until modernization led to the use of duffel wool.
Hilary Duff is the world's most famous owler -- to date CNN.com
But Duffy has no truck with those who argue that the player, who is injury-prone and inclined to attract lurid headlines, has little left to offer the sport beyond tears and tabloid tattle.
I'm just glad I used my ratty old duffel bag and not my Pradas, Guccis and Louis Vuittons…
Many great players have publicly stated that they would rather play on a duff instrument with a great bow than a great instrument with a bad bow.
Only the brilliance of the Northern Irishman, who holed a stunning birdie putt on the 16th green to extend his lead in the match, and the nervousness of Mahan, who duffed a chip shot on the par-three 17th that sealed his defeat, finally turned back an American tide that had threatened to deny Montgomerie a captain's victory to add to the many he has won as a player in this event. Ryder Cup 2010: Graeme McDowell the perfect hero for Europe
She put everything in a duffle bag and checked it in the coatroom.
He had his tartan plaid thrown about him, a large blue bonnet with a knot of black ribband like a cockade, a brown short coat of a kind of duffil, a tartan waistoat with gold buttons and gold button-holes, a bluish philibeg, and tartan hose. Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
For years the conventional wisdom was that media reform - like campaign finance reform - was too abstract an issue to get people off their duffs and into action.
I wondered how they would take to steak and kidney pudding, oxtail soup, and plum duff.
Megan explained before leaping forward and hauling a big blue duffle bag off the conveyer belt with all the baggage on it.
The action is set against an original score by composer Deirdre Gribbin, Stein's wife, while the starry cast also includes Susannah York and Anne Marie Duff.
There's bendroflumethiazide and also cyclophosphamide, And metoclopramide, acetazolamide, tropicamide Loperamide, amiloride and cyclizine and frusemide, And if you're up the duff then you'd best avoid thalidomide. WN.com - Articles related to Freedom to set prices key for UK drugs industry
The cool shaded layers of leaf mold and general duff of the forest floor, which in the virgin Cascade forests seldom feel the warmth of the sun, constitute an ideal storage medium.
Duffey came third last year in a valiant attempt to topple De Beer, who recorded a hat-trick of victories.
The enduring memories of the day will not be the duffed shots, the missed putts or the wind-driven slices and hooks, but the beauty of the course on the riverside at Banpakong.
This past season has seen many duff decisions but also some solid displays.
Duff stopped and turned, stared at it, then ran his fingers through an unruly mop of hair.
But in commercial terms, has Chubby duffed his chance of maximising the big payday? Super-agent sold out of firm just as his players set out for golf grand slam
Mr Lamb is fiercely against any kind of fiscal union in Europe and rejects federalism, unlike his fellow Lib Dem Andrew Duff MEP.
It's just so darned much fun to hear these old duffers talking shop and gossip.
These results - like those in some smaller studies - are one more reason to get off your duff.
Although deep down we all know that rugby, like football, is just a game, it's still a form of entertainment and if your favourite rock group starts playing duff songs you stop going.
Those who were of the type who would jump in and shovel a neighbor's car out of a snowbank based on decent concepts of neighborliness, and the sure knowledge that some old duffer is going to have a heart attack if they don't, are similar to those who felt the rest of us needed their help (Pat Tillman comes to mind). Vietnam: Still an Unjust War « Antiwar.com Blog
It's about 60 years since this area has burned, and duff is all that stuff that collects for years.
The playschool will open soon at Ballyduff Community Centre.
I had just about run myself dry of duff funnies regarding the trusty Smith and Whatsaname.
There isn't a duff track, and while those lyrics are often too clever for their own good, the accompanying tunes usually make up for that.
McDuff passed the time writing letters .
First came a short, stout black woman dressed like a hooker, shirt buttons undone, hair wild and dishevelled, dragging a scuffed duffel bag by its long loop.
I'm enjoying Finger Lakes wine country at the moment, but I did bring along this bottle of dolcetto for WBW #54 hosted by one of my favorite bloggers, David McDuff of McDuff's Food & Wine Trail. WBW #54: Piedmont: Ascheri 2006 Dolcetto D'Alba
Jack duffed his drive off the first tee.
Investors flocked to Trina Solar options to position for continued near-term bullish movement in the price of the stock," Interactive Brokers equity options analyst Caitlin Duffy wrote in a report. Japan Crisis Raises Worry in U.S. Options
Plum duff caption All that Latin last week seems to have brought on an existential crisis. Times, Sunday Times
Julie Felix came to England in 1964 after leaving California and hitching through Europe with a duffel bag and guitar.
Forres, the murder of King Duffus at Forfar, and other pithy sonnets and lays which appertained to the history of his distant native country, and particularly of the district to which he belonged. Quentin Durward
Sometimes a blob in a grey big rib duffel coat would audibly giggle when she started reciting the magical powers and diabolical curses inscribed on the trifold. What it means to be a doctor is to love
Am I too old for... a duffel coat? Times, Sunday Times
She's seven months up the duff, and it's surprising that she has decided to pose naked whilst being pregnant.
Adoration continues in Rathduff Church every Sunday during lent from 12 noon to 5pm with Holy hour from 5 to 6pm.
Jimmy pulled up the hatch built onto the floor of the hover vehicle and reached inside the small confines to reveal a duffel bag.
And I think that you are the blamedest kind of an ass and a duffer to have pulled me out. VC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea
Old Mr. Duff is the archetype of the elderly British gentleman.
Not a duff track among them, honestly, and the thing didn't even make it past 20 minutes, so naturally I was starved for more.
Tom's evil genius did not lead him into the dens of any of those preparers of cannibalic pastry, who are represented in many standard country legends as doing a lively retail business in the Metropolis; nor did it mark him out as the prey of ring-droppers, pea and thimble-riggers, duffers, touters, or any of those bloodless sharpers, who are, perhaps, a little better known to the Police. Martin Chuzzlewit
MN in mononucleated cells and NPB in binucleated cells are markers of aneugenic and clastogenic actions of uranium, respectively Breast Cancer in Iraq leads to Gulf War Veteran News Alert and Rep Boswell Legislation GORDON DUFF: U.S. Veterans Today
In other words, comprehensive though this report is, some of it is based on data that the Commission considers a bit duff.
In spite of looking like a plum duff on legs, Blowitz had an extraordinary gift of attracting the best of 'em like flies to a jampot. Watershed
It looked like that duffel bag of yours, and it was heavy.
Duffle coat toggles used to be made from such nuts.
And on the first day of school, they will all need somewhere to store their pencil cases and duffle coats. Times, Sunday Times
Spending too much time on your duff tends to weaken the muscles of the lower back and bend the spine out of its natural alignment.
Conor Duffy opened the scoring for the home side but this score was cancelled out by a fine strike by Fran Feane.
Mr MacDuff agreed that the jury should award fair damages to compensate her for what she had gone through.
New Madrid (winner of the Wallflower award, imho a duff choice) narrates John James Audubon’s account of the 1812 New Madrid earthquake which altered the flow of the Mississippi river, over footage of landscape and submerged trees: beautiful and meditative, but also somnolescent. January « 2009 « Squares of Wheat
But Celtic went ahead in the 10th minute and it came after Stuart Duff had been dispossessed by Petrov close to the half-way line.
Severe fires incinerate duff and all plants rooted there.
However, whoever was doing security should be taken outside and duffed up.
They'd left me the plum-duff, which was hanging in its billy from a bough. A Little Bush Maid
Miss Gazdowick will play Lady McDuff in Macbeth and Bianca in The Taming of the Shrew, while Mr Smith will play Duncan in Macbeth.
There's not one duff track on the entire album and it is was light years ahead of its time. The Sun
The new rector of the Scottish Episcopal Church in Orkney, Reverend Alison Duff, was installed into her charge at a service in Kirkwall on Wednesday night.
The road in Tunduffe has now gained such a high level of points that Gardai declare it treacherous and a serious accident risk.
In the minutes that followed, McDuffie was beaten to death by a group of Dade County police officers.
He was the rarest "duffer" it has ever been my good fortune to meet. A Fool and His Money
On the latest, Mr.A. J. Duffield's, it would be in every sense of the word impertinent in me to offer an opinion here. Don Quixote
Beneath her clothes and other personal items, several thousand dollars for the secondhand Mercedes that Monye planned to buy from a dealer in Cotonou lay under the duffel’s false bottom. Night Bus
(forgive him, he's from Zagreb), he chose three median-rich stretches-Park Avenue, the West Side Highway, and Broadway-then made himself an official-looking ID, dressed in parkish green, and started collecting ants, travelling the city with a duffelbag of garden tools and Evian bottles filled with antifreeze. The New Yorker
With time running out and Salford supporters screaming at the ref to blow for full time, Duffy made another break.
In other words, instead of focusing on the obvious and most media-friendly candidates, let's get off our duffs and not become the branding arm for celebrities, whether journalists or not.
Warde," the Duffer nodded in the direction of Warde, who was talking with Charles Desmond and Colonel Egerton, "has worked like a slave. The Hill A Romance of Friendship
Not so much of a keynote speech as a duff note speech. Times, Sunday Times
In breaking open a building stone, the diker had found the inside of it, he said, covered over with curiously carved flowers; and, knowing that Mr. Duff had a turn for curiosities, he had brought the flowers to him. The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
Duffy was as surprised as everyone else when the word exploded from his mouth with such force and volume. Miracle Workers
I thought I'd bought a duff batch but it seems not to be the case as the CD burner reads them fine.
OK, so Gordon is a bit of a duffer behind the podium, but I was shocked at how badly Osborne delivered his speech and did anyone buy that semi-official back-stage footage of Dave telling George what a top-hole performance he'd given - they take us for fools. David Cameron vs. the Treasury
He had his tartan plaid thrown about him, a large blue bonnet with a knot of black ribband like a cockade, a brown short coat of a kind of duffil, a tartan waistoat with gold buttons and gold button-holes, a bluish philibeg, and tartan hose. Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
Plum duff caption All that Latin last week seems to have brought on an existential crisis. Times, Sunday Times
Do you think we're handing out duff advice? The Sun
If practicality is a priority, then rejoice in the fact that the duffel coat has had a stylish makeover. Times, Sunday Times
Duff sometimes behaved like a cad to his women; in politics, he was a model of principled behaviour.
Now Creek has dumped the duffel coat and has a regular job at an advertising agency. Times, Sunday Times
It was handed over to the marine aquarium at Macduff where staff reckoned it was either an oarfish or a dealfish.
The steel kit for the hull and steel portions of the deckhouse and aft shelter were processed by the Yards Profiling Facilities before being assembled in the steel building hall in Macduff.
Do you think we're handing out duff advice? The Sun
She stuffed her toy fox into her duffel bag but allowed his head to peep out.
That is to say, we are not acquainted with the duffer who foozled fifteen strokes. Public Opinion
We're just a friendly bunch of old duffers who like getting together every now and then, and having a laugh.
In a kneehole desk, they discovered a journal, which revealed that MacDuffie knew about the antique. Santa Cruise
The new airport is a surly chaos of duffel bags and boxes. Times, Sunday Times
The Daily Mirror strip finished in 1959 and things went quiet for Jane until the 1970s when Lesley Duff portrayed the pin-up in the musical stage-play Happy As A Sandbag.
If you owned hundreds of millions of shares in a company, would you be sitting on your duff waiting for him to rush to the rescue and protect your assets?
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Others like Mick Duffield in ‘Killing Time’ uses photomontage, collage and video to create powerful and disturbing images for the anarchist band Crass.
I'm too inexperienced an actor to be landed with a duff script.
But she was fastened into her duties like a toggle into a duffel coat.
The dresses themselves are simply cut - strapless with a boned inner corselette, beautifully tailored by Grace-Duff (an elegant answer to the awkward built-in shelf bra). Theartblog
She got up the duff and now they've got hitched.
Dinner - at noon - might be a roast with potatoes and onions or toad-in-the-hole, with a duff of pastry and raisins for pudding.
A bit of a duff performance you could say. The Sun
The recording quality's a bit duff, though it's tempting to think that the distortions and drop outs are a result of the machinery's inability to capture this music rather than poor engineering.
Mac tossed his duffel bag onto one of the two beds in their rented room, then glanced around.
The kid duffed everything.
Those moments I remember from the Ireland squad when Duff's shyness got the better of him are virtually gone.
Mr. Zak left the same way with Mr. Sivapragasam assisting him by carrying one handle of the duffle bag in question.
The first sound of an innocent human voice since the murder is stifled when Macbeth's hirelings kill Macduff's little boy.
No Turley, Duffy, Martyn or Knott - four major players missing from the spine of the team.
He never hit a duff note, running through Road To Mandalay, Eternity, She's The One and Millennium.
She gave half a shrug, and heaved her friend's ‘inadequate’ duffel bag out of the car.
That way, if you are given duff advice, you can make a claim against them. The Sun
A man in northern Illinois found a valuable surprise in his backyard Tuesday afternoon: A duffle bag filled with stacks of $20 bills.
Attached to the desk of animation director Kim Jun-bok is a hand-drawn picture of a six pack of Duff Beer, the preferred brand of Springfield's ludicrous lushes.
The card was neatly lettered P.A. DUFFY.
We like: this silhouette clutch ($10, loopnyc. com for stores), the Coach red mini duffel ($98 at coach. com) and the rainbow canvas bag from Marc by Marc Jacobs ($138 at eluxury. com) .7. Holiday Gift Guide: Fashion
Yet this is where Guns N'Roses veterans Slash, Duff McKagan and Matt Sorum find themselves on a sultry summer Saturday in June.
Wrangled a 16 'python from a wooden crate into a big duffle bag then sat and watched TV that night with a 7 foot boa on my back. Has anyone ever had a bear snif their face?I have.
Strange, looking back, to remember the pride I felt when Duff Mason gave a dinner for the garrison's best, and I stood by the buffet in my best grey coat and new red sash and puggaree, with my beard oiled, looking dignified and watching like a hawk as the khansamah and his crew scuttled round the candle-lit table with the courses. Fiancée
Now Creek has dumped the duffel coat and has a regular job at an advertising agency. Times, Sunday Times
The beam is noticeably narrower at the transom than amidships and the slight tumblehome (sides that turn in at the deck rather than flare out) at the transom of the Duffy 35 is typical of the graceful, traditional Downeast workboat style.

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