puff up

How To Use puff up In A Sentence

• Again, papads are rolled out paper thin whereas poppadoms are rolled out a little thicker and puff up more.
• I sneeze uncontrollably, my eyes puff up and the back of my mouth gets swollen and itchy.
• Philip Morris and other tobacco companies have been using ammonia in their manufacturing for more than half a century, and for a variety of purposes: to highlight certain flavors, to expand or "puff up" the volume of tobacco, to prepare reconstituted tobacco sheet ( "recon"), to denicotinize (reduce the amount of nicotine in) tobacco, and to remove carcinogens. UK TOP SECRET Postman Patel
• Not only does the Times puff up stories on social changes that it likes by front-paging them, it downplays changes likely to arouse conservative opposition.
• If you try to make this you need to make sure that the rice noodles you use are fryable - they have to puff up. Archive 2006-09-01
• When disturbed, weevers erect a dark-colored and highly venomous dorsal spine, while pufferfishes, also poisonous, puff up into a ball of spikes.
• -- Rowland le Sarcere held one hundred and ten acres of land in Hemingston by serjeanty; for which, on Christmas day every year, before our sovereign lord the King of England, he should perform altogether, and at once, a leap, puff up his cheeks, therewith making a sound, and let a crack. A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide
• They will puff up and the skin will blister slightly.
• They should be speckled with brown, and puff up when turned, but remain soft and pliable - rather like an Indian chapati.
• The cooked-fruit-on-the-bottom approach has the added benefit of holding the bottom of the piecrust in place crusts can sometimes puff up if you don't weight them down, if, say, you're making a fresh fruit pie and need to cook the crust separately. Maria Rodale: The Easiest Fresh Summer Fruit Pie