Huff is an English word of 4 letters with synonyms like miff or chuff. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Huff in a sentence
Related words
Huff meaning
- A heavy breath; a grunt or sigh.
- A condition of anger, annoyance, disgust, etc.
- One swelled with a false sense of importance or value; a boaster.
Synonyms of Huff
Using Huff
- The main meaning on this page is: A heavy breath; a grunt or sigh. | A condition of anger, annoyance, disgust, etc. | One swelled with a false sense of importance or value; a boaster.
- Useful related words include: miff, chuff, puff, breathe in.
- In the example corpus, huff often appears in combinations such as: huff and, in huff, to huff.
Context around Huff
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 10 start, 9 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Huff
- In this selection, "huff" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 23.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, mcdonald, adah, joshua, duff, burton and compared stand out and add context to how "huff" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and marjorie huff burton on and but huff duff high. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "huff" sits close to words such as adage, admirer and aft, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with huff
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
CHS Investments, LLC – Chandler Huff is the developer. (8 words)
Plenty of huff and puff, but looked nervous. (8 words)
Huff is prepping for a role in carbon accounting. (9 words)
Never in living memory had the monarchy contrived to make itself look so ridiculous — and when Edward stormed off in a huff at the end, angry that the Press failed to share his enthusiasm for the event, it only added to the sense of chaos and humiliation. (47 words)
Anyway, we’ll sit around and wait for more people in Bristol to lose their job so McAfee can continue to huff his own farts and then get even more righteous when anyone points out that A. smells and B. is toxic. (42 words)
But " Huff-Duff " (High Frequency Direction Finder) was still able to find where the U-boats were by analysis of radio transmissions and the positions through triangulation from the direction located by two or more Huff-Duff systems. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
He was born May 16, 1963, in Lewiston, the son of Leland E. Huff and Joan (McDonald) Huff.
The kindergarten-second grade winner was Lucy Newman; the third- through fifth-grade winner was Daniel Sacco; the sixth- through eighth-grader winner was Adah Huff; and the ninth- through twelfth-grade winner was Joshua Huff.
Dolores was born the daughter of Vernal Huff and Marjorie Huff (Burton) on July 20, 1946.
She was preceded in death by her parents; brothers, Thomas T. Huff and William H. Huff II; and a sister, Evelyn Miller.
But " Huff-Duff " (High Frequency Direction Finder) was still able to find where the U-boats were by analysis of radio transmissions and the positions through triangulation from the direction located by two or more Huff-Duff systems.
Huff compared this number with social welfare : error Huff noted that deliberate obfuscation was a complicating factor.
And before you write in to huff and puff, I know about Wales and the Borders and New Zealand.
Anyway, we’ll sit around and wait for more people in Bristol to lose their job so McAfee can continue to huff his own farts and then get even more righteous when anyone points out that A. smells and B. is toxic.
Charles Huff prepares to lead Marshall out on to the field for its season opener against Albany.
CHS Investments, LLC – Chandler Huff is the developer.
He’ll occasionally stop to look back at me, staying the same distance ahead while I huff and puff slowly behind him, finally heading off the trail into the woods when another runner or biker comes by.
How the electorates huff and puff with a short memory and the lack of willpower.
Huff is prepping for a role in carbon accounting.
Huff said that while Surry County has a number of election deniers, most residents trust the objectivity of the Board of Elections to properly uphold voting law.
Huff says she has constantly advocated for her child’s education, asking teachers and principals for more support and even taking her concerns all the way to Alberta’s premier.
Junior midfielder Taylor Huff served the ball to senior defender Laurin Flynn in the box, where she headed it into the net to tie the game at 1-1.
Kaeli Huff- Intermediate Rising Starz Senior Dancer of the Year Finalist.
Never in living memory had the monarchy contrived to make itself look so ridiculous — and when Edward stormed off in a huff at the end, angry that the Press failed to share his enthusiasm for the event, it only added to the sense of chaos and humiliation.
Plenty of huff and puff, but looked nervous.
Rahne and Huff are former co-workers at Penn State, where the two worked together from 2014-2017.
Common combinations with huff
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- huff and 27×
- in huff 10×
- to huff 7×
- huff said 7×
- huff is 5×
- bryce huff 5×
- huff post 4×
- huff has 4×
- huff was 3×
- huff who 3×