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Example sentences for "puffing"

Lexicographically close words:
puffery; puffeth; puffickly; puffin; puffiness; puffins; puffs; puffy; puft; puggaree
  1. Steam-carriages were puffing along the roads that ran by the canal, some filled with pleasure parties, and some laden with goods.

  2. I shall never forget Squire Longbow's frenzied excitement the first time the locomotive came puffing and whistling in.

  3. And before I knew whence it came, with a rush and a clatter, and a puffing out of smoke, a long black train of something flew by, and was gone almost before I could draw my breath.

  4. Under it and onwards went the brook; and now came to the spot where the fir stood puffing on the hillside.

  5. I thought it very dreadful; but the cows went on eating very quietly, and hardly raised their heads as the black, dreadful thing came puffing and groaning past.

  6. Puffing engines moved in and out upon these, drawing mighty carriages that rumbled after with a deafening noise.

  7. He was an Ass for always puffing and inflating himself, while as regarded worldly knowledge, particularly that comprised in the magic letters L.

  8. A charming young man, I am told," said he, puffing out a long column of smoke.

  9. It was almost dark when the relief engine came puffing into sight; but a short time sufficed to place the car on the track and the party arrived safely at Lima.

  10. I do know, however, that I was puffing and trying to breathe.

  11. There was a most horrible din and confusion, caused by the shouting and rush of the people, the whiz of rockets, the puffing of steamboats and the hoarse sound of speaking trumpets, all amid the glare of Bengal lights and burning pitch.

  12. The pipe was refilled and puffing away, Paul continued relating some adventure.

  13. It isn't our lucky day," said Fred, puffing and blowing.

  14. The door closed, and old Martha went puffing slowly to her room in the attic.

  15. Tugs, puffing up past Blackwell's Island into the Harlem River, replied with mellow blasts.

  16. Of course the incessant smoker who is puffing all day long sears his tongue and grows callous to the true delicacy of the flavour.

  17. He was puffing away at a corn-cob pipe as placidly as if he did not have more millions than Cornwall has hills--which is saying something, for Cornwall has twenty-seven of the latter.

  18. Puffing like a porpoise, with a few quick strokes he reached the edge of the raft and tossed on its surface something which clinked as it struck the logs.

  19. We shall have a coalition presently," he boomed, looking from his wife to me and puffing out his enormous chest.

  20. And, after puffing in silence awhile, he said resignedly, "I am an unnatural monster.

  21. And you can come here with that horrible calm, and cigar, owning defeat, and puffing tranquillity, with the same mouth.

  22. It was with people sitting all around me, and the engine puffing noisily away on an up grade, that my delighted eyes first fell on the one-flowered pyrola.

  23. It was well that he left when he did, for not two minutes later Jimmy came puffing along, looking anxiously for the others.

  24. Now, the guns are ready, and the battle may commence," said Blucher, puffing a cloud from his pipe.

  25. Speak, my old friend," said Blucher, puffing a cloud from his pipe, and satisfied that the old hussar would apply to him for money.

  26. Blucher, good-naturedly, puffing a cloud of smoke from his pipe.

  27. The field-marshal in the mean time sat with the green bonnet on his head, puffing his pipe.

  28. He returned to his blankets and was puffing again almost immediately.

  29. Yes," answered the guest, slowly puffing away at his pipe.

  30. Leslie, puffing his cigar-smoke very fast, looked up through the cloud abstractedly at a new ornament which had been placed above the mantel shelf since we first knew the room.

  31. When he had delivered himself three times over of all that I could lead him to say, I left him still puffing at his pipe.

  32. They saw several turbaned heads, and an officer leaned over the rail, puffing lazily at a cigarette.

  33. Ten minutes after breakfast there was not a man in the battalion of nearly four hundred who was not puffing away furiously on pipe, cigar, or cigarette, although not an ounce of tobacco had been drawn from the stock of the storekeeper.

  34. For one of them, Reuben James, was puffing at a stubby black pipe, and another spat vigorously to leeward.

  35. But frankly, the railway-station being in the plain and the town on the summit of an extraordinary hill, you have time to forget the puffing indiscretion while you wind upwards to the city-gate.

  36. Sometimes he appeared at the entrance of a mosque, puffing and blowing as he removed his heavy boots before entering the sacred premises.

  37. Opposite was a young Moorish merchant, puffing at a large cigarette, then a Maltese seaman, and four or five Moorish women, with white linen masks, whose eyes alone were visible.

  38. Puffing at his hookah and munching musk-flavoured condiments.

  39. In half an hour, Edwin reflected, when his train was still puffing away through the dark, W.

  40. The exhaust of a single small engine, puffing regular jets of dazzling white steam, seen but not heard.

  41. Puffing slowly away, he directed his men in a struggle which, owing to the superior numbers of the enemy, seemed hopeless.

  42. Pretty soon Johnny Chuck came up, puffing and blowing, and threw himself flat on the ground.

  43. Here there was a hole about six feet deep and twelve feet across, over which the puffing urchins struggled to the opposite side, and thought no small beer of themselves for having been out of their depths.

  44. Coachman comes out with his way-bill, and puffing a fat cigar which the sportsman has given him.

  45. So St. Peter, puffing a bit, rolled it over, and found under it all manner of grubs and slugs living in content.


  46. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "puffing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    asthmatic; bloat; breathless; diastole; dilation; distension; dropsy; edema; flatulence; inflation; nasal; panting; plug; puff; puffing; pulmonary; sniffy; snoring; snuffy; stertorous; stretching; swell; swelling; tumescence; wheezing