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Example sentences for "puffy"

Lexicographically close words:
puffin; puffiness; puffing; puffins; puffs; puft; puggaree; puggy; pugilism; pugilist
  1. Head iridescent with green, purple and blue, and with a large white patch extending from eye to eye, across the back of the puffy crest.

  2. The black, puffy head is adorned with a pair of buffy white ear tufts and the foreneck is a rich chestnut color.

  3. And his eyes are so puffy underneath, lately.

  4. She shut her harsh lips together tightly at what she saw; Jase certainly was puffy under his watery, pink-rimmed eyes, and the withered cheeks above his thin graying beard really did have a pasty, gray look.

  5. She ended by leaving the table and retiring precipitately to her own tiny room in the lean-to where she buried her face as deep as it would go in a puffy pillow of wild duck feathers.

  6. Frequently she felt its puffy softness and its crackly crispness and wondered dully what Billy Louise had sent to Ward.

  7. Do you mean that puffy old beef-cutter's got more sense than what I have, young man?

  8. He's a beefy, puffy old money bag, he is.

  9. The puffy cumulus clouds show a lot of white.

  10. And if the morning sky is full of these puffy little clouds the day's evaporation on adding to them will probably cause rain.

  11. Her cheeks were puffy red, her eyes jutted poppily from the sockets, and her jowls dripped.

  12. He left Mrs. Morgan stretching her plump feet and puffy hands to enjoy the flames' warmth, while her keen eyes examined every corner of the bare room, its tidily swept hearth, and the bunch of galax leaves on the table.

  13. A white shirt-waist gave a puffy look to a body that could ill endure such appearance of enlargement, and a black belt accentuated the amplitude of girth that it encircled.

  14. Upon each one was placed with dainty care one soda cracker, one withered ginger-snap and one puffy cracknel.

  15. Mrs. Purspyre choked on the puffy cracknel and was saved to the world by a glass of water.

  16. I disliked the fellow for his unhealthiness, and for the hard mockery in his puffy eyes.

  17. I should have thought that the first glance at the puffy reprobate would have been enough to show her the folly of her idea.

  18. The lady wore a bandana tied over her night-cap, the strings of the latter article of dress being tied so tightly under the chin that her puffy cheeks stood out on either side.

  19. To his surprise the baker gave him three great puffy rolls, enough to satisfy half a dozen hungry persons.

  20. No, no, pass on, ye vain fantastic troop Of puffy youths; know I do scorn to stoop To rip your lives.

  21. The hollows at the corners of his lips became more pronounced in the puffy roundness of his cheeks.

  22. With his face puffy with lather, he stopped from minute to minute to peep through the window giving onto the station platform.

  23. It came from the west on puffy little winds like the back-draught from an oil-burning boiler.

  24. Bavarian puffy noodles were next served, and they were swollen up to such a big, big size that they seemed to be the masterpiece of the table.

  25. She had a round puffy face with bright little eyes; and was a very worthy woman, whose only faults were an inclination for gossiping and a fondness for good cheer.

  26. Through a billowy haze she beheld a flushed, puffy face with dishevelled hair falling about it from under a crooked hat, and two deeply marked lines running from mouth to chin.

  27. She glanced round the carriage nervously, and saw the stranger stretched out at full length, repulsive in sleep, his cheeks inflated and puffy as his breath came and went in heavy gasps.

  28. Their noses were as puffy as the rest of them.

  29. Even the Scarecrow was much heavier than the puffy Loons.

  30. They wore no clothes on their puffy bodies, nor had they any hair.

  31. The creatures swung their puffy hands, which looked like boxing-gloves, and pounded the three travelers as hard as they could, on all sides.

  32. His foot caught the Loon--who was leaning over him--full on his puffy stomach, and sent him shooting up into the air.

  33. The naval officer glanced at the puffy features of his companion and his thick, bull-like neck.

  34. Up into the puffy air winged six aeroplanes.

  35. But the wind was puffy now, and Peggy did not dare to attempt short descending spirals.

  36. The puffy wind had scared most of the entrants of the freak types and only five of the more conventional kind of aircraft were on the starting line.

  37. Pastor Brenckenberg, before he had grown puffy and bloated, when he had lived in the house as tutor, and ruled him with the cane.

  38. But in the big man's voice there was a growling undertone which reminded Leo of his worst boyish scrapes in the days when that great red puffy hand wielded the birch over him.

  39. I wonder how Puffy will like it," she said, as she picked up the kitten, and looked into its blue eyes.

  40. The waists were often quite elaborate with surplice folds, and puffy sleeves, and wide, crushed belts.

  41. I believe I miss the dogs more than anything else, because I can have Puffy up here with me.

  42. He is speaking of the puffy Style, the common Practice of those Writers, who not being able to infuse a natural Passion into the Mind, have made it their Business to ply the Ears, and to stun their Judges by the Noise.

  43. Somebody switched on the light, and Malcolm Sage saw before him the puffy face of a man of about sixty, in the centre of which was a hideous purple splotch that had once been a nose.

  44. And he kissed and hugged the old mother who was weeping streams from her puffy eyes.

  45. In the luxuriant depths of a puffy arm-chair, reclined Edith Darrell, as much at home, as though puffy chairs and luxuriant reclining, had ever been her normal state.

  46. In another puffy rocking-chair near, sat Trixy, her chestnut hair crepe to her eyebrows and falling in a crinkling shower down to her waist.

  47. Under his loose, puffy chin he wore a loose, puffy tie of a magenta shade, in the midst of which a single black pearl reposed; and when he turned his head, the creases in his neck looked like white cords sunk deep in the scarlet flesh.


  48. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "puffy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    adipose; airy; arrogant; beefy; bloated; blowy; blustering; boreal; brawny; breezy; brisk; burly; buxom; chubby; corpulent; distended; drafty; dumpy; fat; flatulent; fleshy; fluffy; fresh; full; gassy; gross; gusty; hefty; important; imposing; inflated; lusty; magisterial; meaty; obese; overweight; paunchy; plump; podgy; pompous; pontifical; portly; pudgy; puffy; rotund; squally; square; squat; stalwart; stocky; stout; strapping; stuffy; swollen; thickset; tumid; turgid; windy