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puffin

[ US /ˈpəˌfɪn/ ]
[ UK /pˈʌfɪn/ ]
NOUN
  1. any of two genera of northern seabirds having short necks and brightly colored compressed bills

How To Use puffin In A Sentence

  • A battery powers an atomizer which is triggered by "puffing" on the cartridge of the device. Health and Medical Online News, Reports and Information
  • This may be because when he started mixing up a bucket in the new kitchen, billows of dust began puffing under the doors onto my new upstairs carpets.
  • A puffing kind of man
  • After a lot of huffing and puffing, he eventually gave in to our request.
  • He filled it with tobacco and lit it, puffing the sweet smelling smoke around the car.
  • He came puffing up the stairs.
  • He stood in the hallway puffing on it for a few seconds to make sure it was fully alight.
  • Esquimaux, with his daily twenty-pound quantum of train-oil, gravy, and tallow-candles, -- the alderman puffing over callipash and callipee, -- the backwoodsman hungering after fattest of pork, -- such men as these were no common sinners: they were assassins who struck at the very fountain of life, and throttled a human stomach. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864
  • I could hear Milly huffing and puffing with the exertion of it.
  • I turned around and there, a few hundred feet away, was our government minder, Li Wong Su, huffing and puffing toward us
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