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  1. puffingnoun

    blowing tobacco smoke out into the air

    "they smoked up the room with their ceaseless puffing"

    Synonyms:
    huffing, snorting

  2. puffing, huffing, snortingnoun

    an act of forcible exhalation

    Synonyms:
    huffing, snorting

How to use puffing in a sentence?

  1. George Freeman:

    Sony is doing a lot of huffing and puffing but there's not much legal theory behind it.

  2. Jerry Boykin:

    The shooter, Floyd Corkins, came into our building armed with a 9 mm pistol, two ammunition clips of 15 rounds in his front pocket, the rounds in the gun, and a box of 50 additional rounds, he also had 15 individually wrapped Chick-fil-A sandwiches. He was not puffing things up when he told the investigators that he intended ‘to kill as many people as [he] could.’ He shot our building manager, Leo Johnson, shattering the major bones of his left arm. Even after taking a bullet, Leo heroically tackled the shooter putting a stop to what would have been a mass murder. Corkins was later convicted of domestic terrorism in Washington, D.C.

  3. Jessica Vaughan:

    It certainly appears that the agency is trying to distract from that misconduct by puffing up this incident into an award nomination, the agency leaders appear to believe that egregious poor judgment and a serious act of obstruction can be canceled out by another good deed. It doesn’t work that way.

  4. Gregory Connolly:

    What they're going to have is a mega database of how Americans smoke, then they'll be able to reprogram the current puffing delivery pattern of the iQOS to one that may be more reinforcing and with a higher addiction potential.

  5. Tricia Hurt:

    We knew that if we didn't do something, we are pretty sure it would not have made it to shore, it was really huffing and puffing, my husband said.

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