Example sentences for: fluff

How can you use “fluff” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • I never encountered that: we used to refer to it as bum fluff !

  • Holbrooke seldom declines the chance to fluff up someone who might be useful to him in the future, especially if that someone is a journalist.

  • Fluff & Folders are people so charming on first meeting that if one were to ask me, "Can you do my laundry tonight?"

  • Magic is signified by levitating people à la Mary Poppins , playing wind-chimes on the soundtrack or flooding a scene with dry ice" (Desson Howe, the Washington Post ). Roger Ebert (who manages to work the odd sexual euphemism "the old rumpy-pumpy" into his review for the second time in three months) defends the movie as fun fluff: "The movie is as light as a soufflé, as fleeting as a breath of pumpkin pie on the breeze from a widow's window" (the Chicago Sun-Times ). (This fan site has loads of pictures of the lovely Miss Gellar.)

  • This raising of the voice at the end of a declarative sentence is the unfortunate result of trying to fluff up something that needs no fluffing: correct speech.


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