luff

How To Use luff In A Sentence

• Having met a good deal of the sea, they knew, like a man who has felt a good deal of the world, that heavy endurance and patient bluffness are safer to get through the waves somehow than sensitive fibre and elegant frame. Springhaven
• All the miracle of sails; the steady foresail; the sensitive jibs; the press canvas delicate as bubbles; the reliable main; the bluff topsails; topgallants like eager horses; the impertinent skysails; the jaunty moonraker, were just canvas stretched on poles. The Wind Bloweth
• I picked a piece of fluff off my shiny black suit.
• ‘Ah Dublin, you're giving it away,’ he wailed in the 55th minute, as the Dublin defence fluffed its lines yet again, giving Laois another unearned scoring opportunity.
• Just like playing poker, it's all about bluffing. The Sun
• ‘We have to win,’ the Scotland coach affirms with a bluffness which only Australians can pull off.
• WHAT are the white fluffy bits on my moth orchid? The Sun
• Vanishing, with a quick flirt of gingham apron-strings, she reappeared in considerably less than a "trice" as a fluffy Strictly business: more stories of the four million
• It appears one of the (ahem) podium girls (aka fluffers) is measuring Alberto's johnson (or juan-hijo) and reporting the result as "five". The Schlock of the New: Dirty Salutes, Bold Claims, and Loud Prints
• Then came a game of bluff with his club spread over two weeks. The Sun