Puffed-up Sentence Examples

Some people can be very self-important and very puffed-up.

Fictional villians and heroes are often puffed up with exuberant hubris.

This victory greatly strengthened Shane O'Neill's position, and Sir Henry Sidney, who became lord deputy in 1566, declared to the earl of Leicester that Lucifer himself was not more puffed up with pride and ambition than O'Neill.

He saw also that much of the inefficiency of the Assembly arose from the inexperience of the members and their incurable verbosity; so, to establish some system of rules, he got his friend Romilly to draw up a detailed account of the rules and customs of the English House of Commons, which he translated into French, but which the Assembly, puffed up by a belief in its own merits, refused to use.

He looked magnificent, all puffed up like a little cat all puffed up.

After Pultava (June 26, 1709), Peter, hitherto commendably cautious even to cowardice, but now puffed up with pride, rashly plunged into as foolhardy an enterprise as ever his rival engaged in.

He studied Greek literature in Alexandria, and, having in addition to this great power in magic, was so puffed up by his attainments that he wished to be considered a highest power, higher even than the God who created the world.'

Bladderwort Utricularia vulgaris This plant is called bladderwort Utricularia vulgaris This plant is called Bladderwort, because it has little puffed up pockets, like little bladders, on its leaves.

Illuminism is not a pure doctrine, just because it is attracted by social activity and puffed up by pride.

Fictional villians and heroes are often puffed up with exurberant hubris.