puffing

[ UK /pˈʌfɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈpəfɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. an act of forcible exhalation
  2. blowing tobacco smoke out into the air
    they smoked up the room with their ceaseless puffing
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How To Use puffing 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.
  • It's not fun, it does hurt, abominably, and I do feel like a lumbering bear, huffing and puffing like Pooh on a bad day.
  • The Dynamo was accustomed to puffing his way through 40 unfiltered cigarettes a day, mainly in his office or his car, both now out of bounds.
  • He filled it with tobacco and lit it, puffing the sweet smelling smoke around the car.
  • He once suggested that my brother handle a bully by puffing up his chest and announcing, ‘If you come near me, I'll expectorate in your countenance.’
  • During rush hour in the mornings and afternoons, Caribbean cities are dominated by metal, plastic and rubber objects, puffing hydrocarbons and other gases into the atmosphere.
  • He came puffing up the stairs.
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