Puffing Sentence Examples

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  • He went up the stairs, puffing and muttering something.

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  • It certainly didn't stop him from puffing away.

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  • Royce sputtered, puffing up his chest.

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  • They went inside, and sat down, still huffing and puffing.

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  • She stood on the front porch, puffing on her cigarette as if sucking in a lung full of chemicals might somehow help matters.

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  • Nesvitski rose, puffing, and went up to the general, smiling.

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  • A fat major skirted a bush, puffing and falling out of step; a soldier who had fallen behind, his face showing alarm at his defection, ran at a trot, panting to catch up with his company.

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  • There were sounds of men slapping one another, yelling, and puffing.

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  • But don't worry ladies, men do the equivalent of this by puffing out their chest.

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  • Movement that requires a faster pace and more effort and gets you huffing and puffing to catch your breath is anaerobic.

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  • The key is to make it a continuous thing so that you actually start puffing and sweating a little -- don't let yourself get stuck cooling off while waiting for a red light or similar, so keep jogging in place.

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  • While the sole down stairs room would have saved considerable huffing and puffing, Dean feared the smaller quarters and especially the bed would not adequately accommodate the woman's substantial mass.

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  • Puffing and energized, she paused for a breath when cold fingers brushed her neck.

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  • Now that I'm going to be a weekend ma, I shouldn't be puffing around kids.

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  • They began the arduous climb, puffing in the high elevation for ten minutes until the trail leveled and opened to their left.

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  • A quick glance back revealed Princess following, steam puffing from her mouth and nose with every labored step.

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  • Richard Trevithick, indeed, had in 1804 tried a high-pressure steam locomotive, with smooth wheels, on a plate-way near Merthyr Tydvil, but it was found more expensive than horses; John Blenkinsop in 1811 patented an engine with cogged wheel and rack-rail which was used, with commercial success, to convey coal from his Middleton colliery to Leeds; William Hedley in 1813 built two locomotives - Puffing Billy and Wylam Dilly - for hauling coal from Wylam Colliery, near Newcastle; and in the following year George Stephenson's first engine, the Blucher, drew a train of eight loaded wagons, weighing 30 tons, at a speed of 4 m.

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  • Women, women! said Alpatych, puffing and speaking rapidly just as the prince did, and he climbed into the trap.

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  • Miller, delivered to the South Carolina railroad in 1834, presented a feature which has remained characteristic of American locomotives - the front part was supported on a four-wheeled swivelling bogie-truck, a device, however, which had been applied to Puffing Billy in England when it was rebuilt in 1815.

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