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• The hamster stuffed his puffy cheeks with food.From the entry hamster
• Puri is a soft, puffy bread, and papadam is round, crispy, and chiplike.2008, Bill Goodwin, chapter I, in Frommer′s South Pacific, page 93. From the entry chiplike
• In her puffy parka Tara looked like an animated snowchild, herself: bubble-shaped, stumpy.1998, Kai Maristed, Belong to Me: Stories, Random House, →ISBN, page 79. From the entry snowchild
• It contained two kinds of what our waitress called puffy tuna.1995 November 10, Ruth Reichl, “Restaurants”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived…. From the entry sayori
• His shirt was plastered to his pastey skin, and the sweat poured from his puffy face.1984, Ron Olson, Three for the Bobcat (Bannack’s All-Family-Western Series; 1), Billings, Mont.: Bannack Publishing Co., →ISBN, page 76. From the entry pastey
• Next to her, a woman with puffy sleeves, bright bubblegum makeup, and big eighties hair spoke melodiously into a microphone.2020, Chana Porter, The Seep, New York, NY: Soho Press, →ISBN, page 169. From the entry eighties
• They were far too puffy and big for her liking.2020, Allison West, Jailed Little Jade, Blushing Books, →ISBN. From the entry bloomer
• Overhead, the late-day sky wore a ruby blush and puffy clouds scurried east like a fluffle of pink rabbits.2017, D. Wallace Peach, Kari's Reckoning, →ISBN, →OCLC. From the entry fluffle
• Frank crawled into the bed with Cyd, his eyes puffy, no more tears in him to cry anymore.2010, Alexis Allee, I Don't Love You, →ISBN. From the entry Cyd
• The first time I saw cloud eggs I was amazed, and I couldn’t believe I had never made these light, puffy creations before.2018, Jen Fisch, The Big Book of Ketogenic Diet Cooking: 200 Everyday Recipes and Easy 2-Week Meal Plans for a Healthy Keto Lifestyle…. From the entry cloud egg
• She and her best friend Basha used to stop at a pastry store after school, where they bought puffy ponchiks frosted with sugar.2014, Elizabeth Wajnberg, “Poppyseed Cake”, in Sheymes: A Family Album after the Holocaust, Montreal, Que.: McGill-Queen’s University…. From the entry ponchik
• My favorite childhood bread was not roti, though; it was luchi—deep fried and puffy, warm and fresh, and simply amazing when rolled up with sugar.2013, Nina Mukerjee Furstenau, Biting Through the Skin: An Indian Kitchen in America's Heartland. From the entry luchi
• She wore a swirling black-and-yellow cloak, heavy make-up, gold web earrings and a crawling nest of plastic tarantulas in her puffy blonde hair.2009, Scott Monk, Beyond the Knock-knock Door, Sydney, N.S.W.: Random House Australia, →ISBN, page 46. From the entry spideress
• Clinically one sees gradually developing oedema, often a strikingly puffy face, increasing mental obtundity, the patient finally lapsing into confusion and stupor.1975, George Martin Yuill, The Treatment of Renal Failure, →ISBN, page 24. From the entry obtundity
• She was skinny and white, slight, with a drawn-in pale face, huge round unmakeupped eyes, and puffy cheeks that gave creases to her shriveled, no lipped mouth.2015, Duane Filer, Square Squire and the Journey to DreamState: Squared Version 2.0 for Teens and Young Adults. From the entry unmakeupped
• Ze changed hir name to one of those New Testament names, and re-fashioned hirself into a soft, puffy, half-finished hermaphrodite nicknamed, The Pop n' Fresh Doe.2010 October 12, Erika Lopez, The Girl Must Die: A Monster Girl Memoir, Hicken, Jeffrey, San Francisco: Monster Girl Media, →ISBN, →LCCN…. From the entry ze
• We sit in puffy velvet armchairs near the fireplace, in a corner at Satellite Coffee across from the University of New Mexico, drinking cafés con leche.2010, Alisa Valdes, The Three Kings: A Christmas Dating Story, St. Martin’s Press. From the entry café con leche
• He also showed me his syringe and the place on his arm where he had misinjected himself the night before and caused a puffy, swollen spot.1971, Joan Hatch Shapiro, Joan Hatch Lennox, Communities of the Alone, page 102. From the entry misinject
• Hittite monuments show the Hittites as short, thick-set men with large, rounded heads, short necks, full, rather puffy faces, adorned with a rounded nose showing marked nostrility.1948, Robert Nunes Carvalho, Wherein I Glory, page 174. From the entry nostrility
• If you stay for lunch, local Society of American Indian members will be home - cooking such native delicacies as puffy fried bread, thick Indian tacos and spicy chili beans.1976 April 21, Pat Kennedy, “Indian festival set May 1”, in The Pleasanton Times, volume 90, number 116, Pleasanton, page 4. From the entry Indian taco

Meaning of puffy

1. adjective Swollen or inflated in shape, as if filled with air; pillow-like.
2. adjective Coming or exhaling in puffs.
3. adjective Speaking or writing in an exaggeratedly eloquent and self-important manner.

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Questions about puffy in a sentence

How do you use puffy in a sentence?

Puffy is used as an adjective. For example: “A puffy fat man in a tracksuit came jogging around the corner.”

What is a short sentence with puffy?

“The hamster stuffed his puffy cheeks with food.”

What does puffy mean?

Puffy means swollen or inflated in shape, as if filled with air; pillow-like.