They smoked up the room with their ceaseless puffing. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Verb (used without object) : The locomotive puffed into the station. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used with object) : to puff a match out. ,to puff up a pillow. ,Their applause puffed him up. From Dictionary.com.
The 'puffing' also would seem to make seizure more difficult. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.] Reference
The hatred of "puffing" grew on him until he came to regard even a sign as. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Wives' Tale] Reference
A battery powers an atomizer which is triggered by "puffing" on the cartridge of the device. From Wordnik.com. [Health and Medical Online News, Reports and Information] Reference
This kind of puffing happens all the time and no one puts it in the paper or gets publicly disciplined. From Wordnik.com. [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference
Second, while Barton might be guilty of "puffing" in his claim to have worked as a prosecutor, it is not a lie. From Wordnik.com. [The Oregon Catalyst] Reference
He wears white flannels, the coat double-breasted and buttoned, the tie is light blue "puffing" fastened with a large pearl. From Wordnik.com. [The Man from Home] Reference
He had always objected to what he called "puffing," and for this reason would never hear of such a thing as a clearance sale. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Wives' Tale] Reference
They weren't small enough and he had to tie the waist as tight as it would go, all bunched up and kind of puffing out around his hips. From Wordnik.com. [Wraithbait] Reference
It began to glow as though someone were puffing on it. From Wordnik.com. [The Great San Francisco Poetry Wars, 19] Reference
We started puffing away even harder, to get rid of that stuff. From Wordnik.com. [Puppy Love] Reference
Stoffi had a funny habit of puffing out her cheeks when she was melancholy. From Wordnik.com. [Goodnight Dogs] Reference
I imagine he is making a face, puffing out air through his lips the way he does. From Wordnik.com. [The Way Home] Reference
Neal, clad in a blouse with see-through stripes and black tights, is puffing on Marlboros. From Wordnik.com. [Blood Sisters, Best Friends] Reference
Many are Cubans, from old men puffing on expensive cigars to teenage glam girls in miniskirts. From Wordnik.com. [A Diva From Old Havana] Reference
A cigar-puffing, larger-than-life figure who believed a free-flowing river was a useless river. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy Of Dam Architect Floyd Dominy] Reference
I could hear the sound of an aspirator, gently puffing and hissing away with mechanical breathes. From Wordnik.com. [The Spear Master] Reference
They found that smokers were far more likely to stop puffing if their spouses, siblings and friends did so. From Wordnik.com. [Modern Outcasts] Reference
Clark was doing some puffing herself; she made it clear the tapes were potentially disastrous for her ease. From Wordnik.com. [Who's On Trial Now?] Reference
"Just look up into the sky," he said, where, as luck would have it, a skywriting plane was puffing out J-E-B. From Wordnik.com. [Quick, Pick A Winner] Reference
Those puffing at least 25 cigarettes a day suffered two and a half times the AMD rate of those who had never smoked. From Wordnik.com. [Cigarettes May Promote Blindness] Reference
Last week, sitting in his office in Bonn, puffing on a Cuban cigar, he talked at length with NEWSWEEK's Lally Weymouth. From Wordnik.com. [Stopping The Catastrophe] Reference
At Starbucks in the glittering Al Sharq Mall, I found only tables of men, puffing cigarettes and grumbling about the service. From Wordnik.com. [Equality, of a Sort] Reference
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