Huffing is an English word with synonyms like puffing or snorting. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Huffing meaning
The act of inhaling psychoactive inhalants.
Synonyms of Huffing
Using Huffing
- The main meaning on this page is: The act of inhaling psychoactive inhalants.
- Useful related words include: puffing, snorting, exhalation, expiration.
- In the example corpus, huffing often appears in combinations such as: huffing and, the huffing, of huffing.
Context around Huffing
- Average sentence length in these examples: 19.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 8 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Huffing
- In this selection, "huffing" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 19.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, seen, old, bacon, paint, sound and power stand out and add context to how "huffing" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include after huffing and puffing and all the huffing and puffing. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "huffing" sits close to words such as aar, abdulla and abimbola, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with huffing
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
What are the effects of huffing? (6 words)
Whoever came up with this idea has been huffing paint. (10 words)
After huffing and puffing, Wimborne would find their winner late on. (11 words)
After all the to-ing and fro-ing, all the huffing and puffing that’s mostly been about asking the nation to vote on something, it seems the only way to clear the logjam is to, well, ask the nation to vote on something. (44 words)
And yet, here he was, a portly 51-year-old, huffing and puffing through eight two-minute rounds for a guaranteed $1 million purse that was unlikely to make the slightest dent in his massive debts. (36 words)
Ranting, puffing and huffing but one thing for certain, you should know that your planned protests will land you in Chikurubi and many of your supporters will be bartered, some to death. (32 words)
What are the effects of huffing? (6 words)
Example sentences (20)
Huffing and puffing her way onto British morning television this week, Fergie said one “must not sit on the fence.
They performed a welfare check after Carter was seen “huffing” a canned gas during an Instagram Live video.
After huffing and puffing, Wimborne would find their winner late on.
Listen for the huffing sound of a hedgehog which has been disturbed.
No amount of huffing and puffing could blow the place down, which seemed reassuring, this being earthquake territory.
Now, the uni-party is huffing and puffing in impotent rage – slandering the as “crazies” and “extremists” and throwing snit-fits generally associated with angry toddlers.
And of course, many are huffing and puffing as they go.
And yet, here he was, a portly 51-year-old, huffing and puffing through eight two-minute rounds for a guaranteed $1 million purse that was unlikely to make the slightest dent in his massive debts.
Beginning around 3 p.m., she could be seen huffing around her enclosure on a live video stream of the pandas’ habitat.
The company reports it integrates "the latest bacon-smell technology" for ultimate bacon huffing.
The next minute, Sandilands comes huffing and puffing up the stairs, red in the face.
After all the to-ing and fro-ing, all the huffing and puffing that’s mostly been about asking the nation to vote on something, it seems the only way to clear the logjam is to, well, ask the nation to vote on something.
Stop huffing and puffing in the line (like an untreated asthmatic) because you, the Queen of Faux Cheveux and YSL handbags, have to wait.
That Mr. Chairman also went down after huffing power and money for so long it made him lightheaded.
Whoever came up with this idea has been huffing paint.
I thought it was more like huffing paint where the person gets intoxicated.
Ranting, puffing and huffing but one thing for certain, you should know that your planned protests will land you in Chikurubi and many of your supporters will be bartered, some to death.
That’s best illustrated on her recently released “Galactic Daisy,” a psychedelic six-minute ride that’s the aural equivalent of huffing space dust.
Thorpe remembers the players from that first training camp being out of football shape, “huffing and puffing” through drills.
What are the effects of huffing?
Common combinations with huffing
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: