puff - use in sentences
Object
- sleeve: It has three quarter length sleeves puffed at the top.
- rice: All your favorite foods are re-made in the style of puffed wheat or puffed rice.
- smoke: A snug, isolated chalet at the very end of a lane reassuringly puffed smoke from its chimney.
Preposition: on
- cigar: In the summer, I would puff on cigars.
- cigarette: The fella on the right wearing shorts is puffing on a cigarette, with most of the others still sat in the vehicle.
Converse of object
- blow: Now and again there blew a puff of wind, but these sheets of falling water kept it down.
Adjective modifier
- slight: Taking pictures proved to be very challenging due to their incessant movement at the slightest puff of wind!
- quick: A quick puff of breath opens the chamber which is allowed to fall away from the blower to produce this pendant bulb shape.
Modifies a noun
- pastry: The fresh cream puff pastry Sandwich was the " bees knees " .
- adder: On my way to Raffi and Anthea I encountered the biggest puff adder ever and hissing away.
- sleeve: The pretty puff sleeves also have matching embroidered panels.
Noun used with modifier
- powder: The powder puff was only needed once, to minimize the lens flare from Steve Castle's head.
- sugar: Or maybe it was the sight of a man sitting at a school table eating sugar puffs with water... I'll never know.
- cream: The fresh cream puff pastry Sandwich was the " bees knees " .
- cheese: Wild mushroom & goat's cheese puff pastry is a typical vegetarian option.
Preposition: of
- smoke: With a puff of smoke, Des handed Ralph an ax.
- breath: He noted how air currents curled, how ghostly snakes could be spun with the movement of a finger, a puff of breath.
- wind: She looks like a puff of wind could carry her away.
- steam: My horse was tired; puffs of steam clouded his breath.
- dust: One such case involved a retired teacher in Huddersfield who was exposed to puffs of dust billowing out of classroom walls for 24 years.
The word usage examples above have been gathered from various sources to reflect current and historical usage. They do not represent the opinions of YourDictionary.com.
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