88 examples of puffy in sentences

" Mr. Joe Kirby sat well forward on a straight chair, knees well apart in the rather puffy attitude of the uncomfortably corpulent.

The N.E.D. quotes this passage with a reference to the adjective 'flaberkin' = puffed out, puffy, and a suggestion that it is akin to the substantive 'flab' = something thick, broad, fat.

It was the puffy red face of a middle-aged woman given to petty self-indulgence.

But I would love to live in a great stone castle, all my own, with a moat and drawbridge and outriders, and go around in a damask gown with a pointed bodice and big puffy sleeves and a ruff and a little cap with pearls on it, and a bunch of keys jingling at my side.

A second time he met the glance of another diner, a stout, puffy man, who breathed heavily while he ate.

His eyes were bloodshot and his eyelids puffy.

The man who let us in was tall and stout, but had a puffy face, and too much flesh on him to be very strong, though he was not, I think, more than thirty years of age.

The sharp eyes, surrounded by puffy flesh, studied him aggressively.

" Bobby couldn't meet the sharp, puffy eyes.

The little eyes, surrounded by puffy flesh, became enigmatic.

The sharp little eyes, surrounded by puffy flesh, held a threat for him.

She was a little woman, stoutishindeed, stout; puffy red cheeks; a too remarkable white cotton blouse; and a crimson skirt that hung unevenly; grey cotton gloves; a green sunshade; on the top of all this the black hat with red roses.

Had he been puffy, it would have been all over with us.

If with this we get a puffy and tender swelling in the hollow of the heel, our diagnosis may be certain at any rate as to the existence of joint trouble, although, from reasons we have given, we may not be able to mark its exact nature.

She would emit a stream of sounds in the trance stateI can hardly call it speech, so murmurous, yet guttural, was the utterance, mixed with puffy breath-sounds at the languid lips.

He was a puffy-faced, unhealthy-looking young man, with very small eyes and a loose, mobile mouth.

The man's strength was prodigious, although he was puffy and short-winded.

They would have none of this fat, puffy, ample-bosomed woman who was trying to blot her picture from their memory.

In others of these newspaper comments there was that unmistakable superciliousness, that goading contemptuousness of self-conceit and puffy disdain, which John Bull visits on all "un-English" things, especially when they happen under their unfortunate aspects.

In one was coffee, which she was burning, stirring vigorously with a pudding-stick,and in the other, puffy dough-nuts, in shapes of rings, hearts, and marvellous twists, which Candace had such a special proclivity for making, that Mrs. Marvyn's table and closets never knew an intermission of their presence.

The hat was gay and set on puffy hair, the jacket brave with lace, but the skirt was frayed where it lapped the pavement, and the boot that was pushed from beneath it, as if to steady a swaying frame, was thin and broken.

Cherry-Garrard is slightly puffy in the face and still looks worn.

Seating himself, the latter now in turn began shuffling a pack between fingers short, puffy, freckled and experienced.

A small, squat, puffy figure incased within a large pack-saddle, upon the back of a lean, high-boned, straw-fed, cream-coloured nag, with an enormously flowing tail, whose length and breadth would appear to be each night guarded from discolouration by careful involution above the hocks.

He fingered, he implored, he fawned with an unsteady eye, and while I wondered I saw behind him the puffy pink face of a fezzed Jew, watching him as a stoat watches a rabbit.

88 examples of  puffy  in sentences