Example sentences for: puff

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

  • Murnau's silent classic Nosferatu . If a woman "pure in heart" manages to keep the vampire by her side all night until "after the cock has crowed," he is guaranteed to suffer what looks like a massive coronary and disappear in a puff of smoke.

  • Rap has always been a commercial affair, and there is a long history of hip-hop entrepreneurs--Def Jam's Russell Simmons and Rick Rubin; Death Row's Suge Knight; Bad Boy's Puff Daddy, Master P's chief rival, to name a few--but there may not have been anyone with better business instincts than Master P.

  • Clearly, the term lawn , with its 19th-century connotation of society matrons batting a powder puff, should be deleted from the titles of all official national tennis organizations.

  • What's so hysterical about this piece of gritty city reporting, the kind of thing that makes true-blue newspaper types bluster with civic pride, is that on the very same day, the Wall Street Journal carries a puff piece about the development of the self-same waterfront: "In San Francisco, Great Views and a Ferry."

  • Fuji-san last erupted in 1707, and today only an occasional puff of steam breaks through its crust, the fitful snore of a sleeping giant.


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