How To Use Puffed In A Sentence
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Dried manure ground into fine powder by hooves and wagon wheels puffed up into the air and its pungent smell filled the town and drifted far outside the town.
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My leg puffed up all round the insect bite.
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The puffed rice said shy: An artillery collapsed start others, did not know others.
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The lab is a windowless room with a blackout curtain puffed over the closed door, and when the lights are turned off, it's completely dark.
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This plate holds a blouse piece, betel leaves and nuts, green bangles, packets of haldi-kumkum, flowers, a small packet of chivda, puffed rice ladoos and chaklis.
Archive 2007-10-01
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Look at you in that picture – even your overcoat is puffed up and 2 sizes too big to try stop the world realizing how small you truly are.
White House fires back at Bush comments: 'We won'
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Foods with high glycemic indexes, including white rice, watermelon, puffed wheat and rice, and baked potatoes, contain carbohydrates that break down quickly.
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Clive puffed again, then slowly pulled the pipe from his mouth and leaned back in his chair, making it rock slightly as he held the pipe in front of his face.
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Narvaez he described as puffed up by authority, and negligent of precautions against a foe whom he held in contempt.
History of the Conquest of Mexico, with a Preliminary View of Ancient Mexican Civilization, and the Life of the Conqueror, Hernando Cortes
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From the window she could see the docks, the harbour, the tugs that brought cargoes in and out and puffed stertorously, shaking the very air with their efforts.
Shallow Soil
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Women wore a huipil with short, puffed sleeves, a tightly wrapped skirt called a refajo, and a large, bright cotton cloth on the head.
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By the time the first fight broke out I was gripped - feathers were puffed up to ensure maximum hard-man appearance and then a very undignified battle ensued, involving lots of running jumps and flapping and pecking.
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Gil puffed on his cigarette and sipped his brandy.
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His bare feet disturbed the red dust of the path down to the granite-basined river, and tiny clouds puffed out on each side of the way at every footfall.
The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt
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Grains rich in fibres are barley, oatmeal, maize, wheat flour, jowar, bajra, whole wheat, rice flakes, refined wheat flour (without husk) and puffed rice.
Effective Home Remedies for Diabetes
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He was too puffed up with his own importance, too blinded by vanity to accept their verdict on him.
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As Levi points out, someone who is a casual or even first-time visitor might not recognize the dishonesty of a troll like dochunt, since he couches his trollery in puffed-up pseudo-academic arrogance.
Think Progress » ThinkFast: March 8, 2010
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This ornamental grass is also called puffed wheat and big quaking grass.
BellaOnline - The Voice of Women
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It can be hard to find that perfect Elvis-style shirt - something in pink and black with a tall collar, say, or a velvet number with puffed sleeves.
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A sudden gust of wind from the open window puffed the candle out.
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Puffed sleeves and flounces convey a playful, romantic look.
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There was complete and utter silence as Maggie looked around and the train puffed slowly away, gaining speed until it was a speck at the end of the valley.
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She wore a flowing pale yellow skirt with ruffles and a silken blouse with puffed sleeves.
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Our train puffed away from the station ten minutes late.
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At other tables, several pasty-faced types in puffed-out shirts lazily gorged themselves on cruisers' cuisine.
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He puffed a cloud of cigarette smoke into my eyes.
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As I completed my 26th lap the Porsche puffed blue smoke.
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Sometimes the train puffed between lines of grey slab fencing in which were armies of white skeleton trees that had been 'rung' for extermination, or with bleached stumps sticking up in a chaos of felled trunks, while in some there had sprung up sickly iron-bark saplings.
Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land
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He was in poor condition and puffed like a grampus, and he seemed to have no sort of head for heights.
Greenmantle
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The runner puffed out the news of the victory.
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She tried her darnedest, huffed and puffed her lungs out, but could not activate the gadget, much less register any reading even after several attempts.
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His face was puffed up with the infection in his tooth.
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The neck line dipped demurely and the long sleeves puffed slightly at the shoulders.
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I wrapped myself around him, we kept up our quick pace for awhile until I felt his grip loosen and he panted and huffed and puffed, taking a mouthful of air and collapsing on my body.
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But having there thus elevated and puffed him up, he again here throws him down to mercenariness and sophistry; nay, to asking money and even to receiving it beforehand, sometimes at the very entrance of his scholar, and otherwhiles after some time past.
Essays and Miscellanies
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When the pastry is golden and puffed up, take the pie out of the oven.
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The religion which has taught men truth -- above all things, _truth_ -- which teaches utter horror of a lie, which insists on the bare, bald reality in heaven and earth, which has taught men hatred of the false as the meanest and most unmanly thing existing -- this religion took its rise in claptrap miracles, was puffed into popularity by boasting pretensions, was born in trickery and nurtured by legerdemain!
Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
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His eyes were bloated and puffed out of their sockets.
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He was wearing dark shorts and a dark singlet with old white runners when he approached the girl and he was puffed out after having run up to her.
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George puffed and panted and he tried to keep up.
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Not only would private prayer keep them from being puffed up by human praise, it would help them focus their hearts on God, removing them from the distractions of the world.
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He covered the animal's snout with his mouth and puffed two breaths into her.
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Her body bloated and puffed up till pain seemed to burst out through her skin.
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The weather was dry and cold; wisps of steam puffed from their lips.
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They huffed and puffed as they carried the sofa upstairs.
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An elderly man puffed on a trumpet to the accompaniment of drums and piano.
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It gave the spod a warm, marshmallowy smile that puffed up his features like dough.
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He puffed up the balloon.
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The sweat blood treasure horse, the lance shake hands, the helmet is shining, I am puffed up with pride and violent.
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When Arian opened the door to let his dog into the room he hardly recognized the poor creature for the way its fur puffed out.
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Her bodice was cut slightly off-the-shoulder with short puffed sleeves and a pointed waist.
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He has not been afraid to publish letters praising his own letters; What We've Lost is puffed in this month's magazine.
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She puffed up the steep slope.
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They huffed and puffed about the price but eventually they paid up.
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The verb ballooned is inspired, suggesting, as it does, puffed-up-ness and hot air; after all, it’s not the man’s worth that has expanded, but merely his sense of that worth (at least in the eyes of his observer).
A Close Read
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He was puffed up with pride.
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And there are a lot more stalls of trinkets, puffed rice and coconuts on the pavement: Proof of burgeoning demand.
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I never want to see another grain of puffed wheat in my life.
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Sigurd, now covered from neck to crotch by a shirt of bronzen scales sewn to leather, puffed up the ladder to the poop deck.
Conan Of The Isles
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I will help you see to it that the heart behind those puffed-out pecs will never be stepped on so publicly again.
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Look a you in that picture – even your overcoat is puffed up and 2 sizes too big to try stop the world realizing how small you truly are.
White House fires back at Bush comments: 'We won'
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Rudely puffed the winds of heaven; roguishly clomb up the all-destructive urchin; and, lo! in a moment night re-established her void empire, and the cit groped along the wall, suppered but bedless, occult from guidance, and sorrily wading in the kennels.
Virginibus Puerisque and other papers
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At the same time wings are drooped and body plumage puffed-out.
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Again the breeze fell flat, then puffed from the old quarter, compelling a shift back of sheets and tackles.
THE PEARLS OF PARLAY
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The roof was thatched and a small stone chimney cheerfully puffed out bits of dark smoke.
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George puffed and panted and he tried to keep up.
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He raised his head with an effort, showing the reason for his difficult speech; the lower lip was badly bitten on one side and puffed like a beesting.
Sick Cycle Carousel
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'Asn't she got up a single rag to show us she sees us?" puffed Galton, swiping his hand across his forehead and flinging drops on the iron deck, where they evaporated the moment they hit.
The Cruise of the Dry Dock
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The Eighties influence makes itself felt again in party wear, with slashed necklines, puffed sleeves, waists and skirts, halterneck tops and the accessory of accessories: the belt.
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Marianne and I have counted six new hats apiece of those girls ', -- _new_, you know, just out of the milliner's shop; and last Sunday they came out in such lovely puffed tulle bonnets!
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864
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Steam puffed from the mouths of the quarterbacks as they barked out the plays, and from their teammates as they huffed each bone-chilling breath; at the end, Fisher's mustache was frosted over.
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Danny froze and the General's eyes bulged as he puffed his moustache.
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Neither of us being puffers we found it quite hard to bear the sweat dripping off our faces from the cooking plates in front of us, coupled with the smoke puffed from every other patron in the joint.
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He sees puffed-out chests as lads square off to prove who's more masculine.
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They who follow him should not be puffed up with pride at the idea that they are the seeing, the dwellers in the sunshine of Truth, the living who are not dead in spirit.
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Her body bloated and puffed up till pain seemed to burst out through her skin.
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This year, we made the journey to Mallaig by car, enjoying the beautiful scenery, and even catching a glimpse of the Jacobite train as she puffed her way north.
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Her body bloated and puffed up till pain seemed to burst out through her skin.
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A fresh breeze puffed across the river.
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His face was flustered with bright red, and his chest was puffed out in authority.
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Ordinary smells can be made up of tens to hundreds of compounds, so Sobel and his colleagues puffed only pure chemicals into the noses of their wired subjects, one scent at a time.
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Stan puffed out his thin cheeks in a passable imitation of his dad.
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It was Christmas Day the following day and as she looked through the carriage window, she could only see a desolate blackness, the fields flying by as the train puffed and rattled towards home.
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Pride is viewed as a negative characteristic, a feeling of conceit or being puffed up with an arrogant superiority.
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But then comes a dish like the shredded-pork tamales in their red-chile cloak - or air-puffed sopaipillas that would only need slightly hotter frying oil to achieve greatness - and you know you're someplace real.
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Cream colored, with puffed sleeves, a skirt decorated with ribbons filled out with many layers of petticoats underneath and an extremely tight bodice.
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History meant to be puffed up with nationalist pride hangs slackly.
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Slide the baking sheet into the oven and bake the flan for one hour, or until the filling is puffed and golden and just jiggles in the center when you tap the pan.
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“As all of you Lucy maud montgomery fans will recall, anne Shirley always wanted puffed sleeves, and this romantic springtime confection harks back to a more elegant time—a time of tea parties at green gables, kindred spirits, and innocent romance with a young man named gilbert Blythe.”
Much Ado About Anne
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Climbing the rickety wooden stairs we were welcomed into the company of the pipe player, impressive in his traditional costume, his cheeks puffed from the playing of his bagpipes.
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A fresh breeze puffed across the lake.
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We started jogging and after the first one, he was puffed out.
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Snoz, the 38-year-old skateboarder, will be puffed up with pride at 2.30 pm tomorrow when the Lord Mayor of York opens the new, purpose-built ‘runway’ at the former carpark at Foss Bank near Sainsbury's.
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Cover pan and cook 10 minutes, until dumplings are puffed up and cooked through.
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Tom Piper hath hoven and puffed up cheeks; poor Cobler is there when it is leathery; Esau betrays himself by hairs, Maudlin by weeping; and as for the "Bishop that burneth" the explanation is complicated.
In a Green Shade A Country Commentary
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The train puffed steadily across the bridge.
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Pigtails, puffed sleeves in check cotton, bare midriff and a skirt that definitely wouldn't need tucking up in the milking shed.
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He also had a bad patch over a holiday in Majorca as a guest of media people, though he broke no rules and the story was puffed up far beyond its importance.
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Latif sat on the verandah and puffed away at his hookah.
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Expressionless except for his puffed cheeks, he blew his whistle twice, signaling us to fall in line behind the school's back door.
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His face was puffed and discoloured, and his large gray eyes were bitter and bloodshot.
CHAPTER II
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The eye, as well as the lids, became inflamed; the latter, being puffed up and contracted on their edges, were necessarily drawn inwards from the tension of the parts, and double entropium was thus produced.
The Dog
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A sudden gust of wind from the open window puffed the candle out.
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He puffed a cloud of cigarette smoke into my eyes.
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The chief has puffed eyes and dark under-eye circles, thanks to ceaseless barking by stray canines in the vicinity of the Thackeray residence.
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The saucepan on the cooker puffed little jets of steam.
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Each word puffed white out of my mouth and the wind shredded it.
Trader To The Stars
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Black hose revealed a well-turned leg, disappearing into puffed pumpkin hose, richly embroidered and paned in black on black.
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Her body bloated and puffed up till pain seemed to burst out through her skin.
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Duncan had beamed and chortled and puffed out cigar smoke contentedly, and Lucasta had thought that when he behaved like this, she wished he would go to China and stay there.
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Steam puffed out of the chimney.
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He puffed a cloud of cigarette smoke into my eyes.
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Her cerise dress had narrow skirts and large, puffed sleeves.
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I puffed and panted and managed to move the first case a couple of inches but no more.
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She puffed furiously at her cigarette.
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He's got a real physical presence - his chest is puffed up and it feels like he's taking up too much space.
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Then take about a tablespoon of dough at a time, roll it into a thin circle (using some more atta to help in the rolling process), and deep fry for a few seconds on each side until the puri is puffed and golden.
Archive 2006-07-01
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His face was puffed up with the infection in his tooth.
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He huffed and puffed-but failed to shake the growing edifice of evidence stacked up against him.
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The salt water caused the kernels to swell and the puffed grain filled the hold with a fluffy nature's life preserver.
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He's got a real physical presence - his chest is puffed up and it feels like he's taking up too much space.
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Steve loomed over her, his face puffed with exertion and his beard tangled and in disarray.
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He puffed out his fat cheeks and let out a lungful of steamy breath.
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Henry puffed out his chest proudly.
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Summertime brings out the little girl in all of us: bubble-gum pink, flirty skirts, puffed sleeves.
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In the 80s the older women were just fine wearing what the younger women were: the laura ashley and jessica micclintock gunne sax dresses with big white collars, and the puffed sleeves and low waisted skirts.
Light Yellow Cotton Dress
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The guy was all bristly and red and puffed up, in fatigue pants and a brown shirt.
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This is a floor-length, brightly colored cloth dress with a square neckline and short, puffed sleeves.
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The bird puffed up its feathers.
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This conversation made it very clear who was puffed up with pride and obstinately trying to impose his will on others, and who was trying to be reasonable and accommodating.
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Then, with a puffed chest and plump sides, the bombé, or convex commode, made a grand entrance.
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“Perhaps the cream voile, Madame Hughes?” offered Madame Sophie, holding out a light, puffed creation.
Exit the Actress
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It puffed its chest, raised its upper body, and threw back the head in a gesture of defiance.
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She took her long crimpy hair and, to the delight of her mother, pinned it up so that it puffed out in a soft nestling mound above the nape of her neck.
Buried Alive, The Biography of Janis Joplin
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His chest puffed out with indignation at the suggestion.
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Later, we huffed and puffed as we tried yabbie pumping.
Undefined
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I've never seen a make up lady on the verge of tears before but my puffed out peaky face was a challenge too far.
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I am also wearing a pale pink blouse with puffed short sleeves, and a hot pink singlet, and mismatching earrings, one a mid-pink heart shape, and one a pale pink circle with a hole in the middle.
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The tunic with puffed sleeves isn't going to cut it.
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Crisp wafts of frozen breath puffed from his gritted teeth.
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She pulled out faded articles of clothing at first, but then she came to a long, purple, sparkling dress with puffed sleeves, a low, scooping neckline, and a wide, full skirt.
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They tested for level of sensory block by stubbing their thighs and flanks with the cigars they puffed with their after-dinner brandy.
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Bake the quiches for 30-35 minutes, until the filling has puffed and the tops are lightly golden.
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Bake, seam-side-down, on a parchment-lined rimmed baking sheet at 400°F for 25 to 30 minutes, until puffed and golden.
Kerry Saretsky: Franglais: Sausage en Croûte with Fennel
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Simon struck a match and puffed his cigar into life.
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After ten minutes or so, when the poor little puffed-out chap was having a breather, a smaller bird (most probably his wife, judging by the way she pecked him in the head six times) appeared and took over.
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Bake in a bain-marie in the oven for 45 minutes to 1 hour, or until slightly puffed-up and spongy.
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I remember my mom was holding me, and my whole face and my eyes were puffed up.
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The dragon puffed a bit of smoke from its nostrils and opened its small wings.
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Won't the day come when puffed-out collagen-lips will seem as incomprehensible as giant shoulder pads?
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Many tourists puffed up the steep steps of the ancient pagoda.
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She puffed and panted behind the others.
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Their gowns were fine velvet and silk, with puffed shoulders and cascading trains.
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She wore a flowing pale yellow skirt with ruffles and a silken blouse with puffed sleeves.
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‘Regulars must not be puffed up,’ he wrote in 1755, ‘Indians must be engag'd if possible and Americans must do our business.’
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In the deep archway were guards, dressed in brocaded and puffed suits, their long-handled spears beside them – who sat and threw dice.
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
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He puffed on his pipe.
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These two words connote at once a corporeal indwelling of the Divine (a Divine madness which is necessary for the making of sagacious, artistic utterance), and an empty, arrogant persiflage (as in being puffed up, or ‘blowing hot air’).
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One of the remaining models pulled out a cigarette and puffed on it nervously in an attempt to relieve the stress.
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When Gombrich applies the term to nonfigurative art, surely he means, as he himself put it, "an art form that still has to prove its potentialities," [4] in other words, a dubious venture artificially puffed by critics and theoreticians.
'The Sense of Order': An Exchange
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But when the track was actually laid by the side of the house, and the steam-engine of the construction train puffed and screamed under the dining-room windows, and the engineer calmly looked in to see what the family had for dinner, she felt, indeed, that they must move.
The Peterkin Papers
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Umber wheezed and puffed with the effort, while Oates ran with a scowl on his face, ready to strike at anything that confronted them.
End of Time
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And the small groups of people standing, with their heads bare and bowed, in the fields as the train carrying us all to Oxfordshire puffed its way to his chosen resting place.
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The puffed grains are then dried off before they can collapse.
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Our train puffed away from the station ten minutes late.
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Under it she wore a crisp white shift whose sleeves puffed at the elbow.
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Stan puffed out his thin cheeks in a passable imitation of his dad.
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Bebe puffed up her little body, her short fur trying to ridge along her back into hackles, her bared fangs at Daisy's throat.
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We reclined, Bedouin-style, on rugs and cushions to doze away the fiercest heat of the day, while young Arab men puffed on hookahs - the traditional hubble-bubble pipes for smoking sweetened tobaccos.
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He had about a million marshmallows in his mouth now and he looked like a big puffed-up chipmunk.
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Her body bloated and puffed up till pain seemed to burst out through her skin.
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I hope you will not visit the very learned Herr Nicolai, the insipid prosaist, the puffed-up rationalist, who believes that his knowledge permits him to penetrate every thing, and who is a veritable ass.
Old Fritz and the New Era
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Half the sky was a golden glow casting a shimmering slick across the water, and the other half, painted with grey and black puffed humungous clouds.
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The puffed wild oat flake retains nutrients and health-care functions of natural wild oat, and is a new wild oat food with improved palatability.
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He charged down the soft dry sand until he was right beside the statuesque girl and puffed out his chest comically.
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Lampley didn't even flinch when she swatted at his eyes with a mascara wand and even powder-puffed his ears.
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Only wise, only rich, only fortunate, valorous, and fair, puffed up with this tympany of self-conceit; [1918] as that proud Pharisee, they are not (as they suppose) like other men, of a purer and more precious metal: [1919] Soli rei gerendi sunt efficaces, which that wise Periander held of such: [1920] meditantur omne qui prius negotium, &c.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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The train puffed away into the distance, the funnel trailing black and white clouds as it departed.
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I now realize why and how puffed pastry is so expensive in bakeries and rightfully so due to the extreme labor and expense that is put into it.
Archive 2009-08-01
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Tesha raised an eyebrow and poked Marl in the stomach, deflating his puffed-up chest.
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Her sleeves were puffed at her shoulders, then tapered to a shimmering fabric that exactly fit the curve of Violet's arms and the skirt, intricately stitched with vines, fell in voluminous folds from her waist.
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Candice sat beside him and poked him in the ribs as she puffed on a cigarette, ‘So?’
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I have my homemade wheat-free cereal (by homemade I mean self-assembled) made from puffed millet, puffed rice, puffed corn, soy grits, dried fruit, coconut, sunflower seeds and pepitas, with sliced banana, sesame seeds and soy milk.
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Unpuffed-up, it's the size of a shoebox.
Times, Sunday Times
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Richard lit another cigarette and puffed smoke towards the ceiling.
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Bake, seam-side-down, on a parchment-lined rimmed baking sheet at 400°F for 25 to 30 minutes, until puffed and golden.
Kerry Saretsky: Franglais: Sausage en Croûte with Fennel
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The Governor was puffed up, already tasting certain success in the fossil fuels industry.
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Her faced puffed up from the drugs
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Fouche, the head of Napoleon's secret police, a stocky man with a bulbous nose, leaned back in his chair and puffed on a cigar.
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It is about oversized, puffed-out proportions and dramatic silhouettes.
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And if you want to make it personal, you puffed-up, snot-nosed walking pastiche, I can tell you about a close friend of my father, who was diagnosed with a brain tumour a few months after retiring; the NHS did everything within its capabilities for two years.
Matthew Yglesias » 2017
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Courtship ceremonies are delightful: the cock slowly circles the hen with puffed-out breast feather, depressed wings and fanned tail.
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It seems logical that the incredible headdresses, the folded, puffed and knotted clothes, are all designed to make the wearer look bigger, taller and more impressive.
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Days are no longer fuelled by ‘hamburger flavoured puffed wheat snacks’ and improbably flavoured, highly coloured fizzy pop.
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Felix nodded in dismissal, rested his elbows on the table, and again puffed away at his brierwood.
Felix O'Day
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She was alone in her room, unbraiding her hair, when a breeze puffed her thin white curtains into her room.
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Her body bloated and puffed up till pain seemed to burst out through her skin.
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Grains rich in fibres are barley, oatmeal, maize, wheat flour, jowar, bajra, whole wheat, rice flakes, refined wheat flour (without husk) and puffed rice.
Effective Home Remedies for Diabetes
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He puffed out his fat cheeks and let out a lungful of steamy breath.
