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Example sentences for: puffing

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Despite the huffing and puffing, divisions have been closing in gender, in notions of patriotism, and even in some dimensions of race.
Baseball is also, incidentally, the only sport where players can smoke during the game; you used to catch appealing glimpses on television of some professional athlete puffing away.
Oh, and let's cut out all this huffing and puffing about Saddam Hussein.
Orgies of high-mindedness like the Volunteer Summit--four presidents, Colin Powell, the networks, celebrities, corporations, foundations, all huffing and puffing in Philadelphia--are a cheap target for knee-jerk iconoclasm.
It is on a par with the literal interpretation of idioms, as in the cartoon of someone puffing on a chain with the caption “Chainsmoker.”