Wondering how to use Puffing in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as smoke or smoking.
Puffing meaning
- present participle and gerund of puff
- Leaving a car engine running unattended, especially in cold weather to warm it up.
Synonyms of Puffing
Using Puffing
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of puff | Leaving a car engine running unattended, especially in cold weather to warm it up.
- Useful related words include: smoke, smoking, huffing, snorting.
- In the example corpus, puffing often appears in combinations such as: and puffing, puffing billy, puffing on.
Context around Puffing
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 11 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Puffing
- In this selection, "puffing" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, seen, man, boosts, billy, away and metal stand out and add context to how "puffing" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and as puffing billy wends and at his puffing and sputtering. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "puffing" sits close to words such as aau, abandons and affections, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with puffing
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
After huffing and puffing, Wimborne would find their winner late on. (11 words)
And of course, many are huffing and puffing as they go. (11 words)
Grant boosts Puffing Billy Toy Library’s mission to support children with special needs. (14 words)
His post read, “The credit for the feats that appear to be puffing the likes of Burna Boy up have to be properly ascribed to the greats who cleared the thorny paths that have created pathways for his likes to walk through practically effortlessly. (44 words)
A young man puffing out his chest, sporting a Stone Island jacket, wearing a cap and clutching a can of Stella or a bottle of Buckfast (depending on which side of the border you sit) have become synonymous with 'the football hooligan starter pack'. (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)
Example sentences (20)
And as Puffing Billy wends its way through forest from Belgrave to Gembrook, he sees fauna such as rosellas, echidnas and deer.
His post read, “The credit for the feats that appear to be puffing the likes of Burna Boy up have to be properly ascribed to the greats who cleared the thorny paths that have created pathways for his likes to walk through practically effortlessly.
Huffing and puffing her way onto British morning television this week, Fergie said one “must not sit on the fence.
Lydia’s ageing fiancé, Charles, was very popular with the audience at Bembridge and had us all laughing at his puffing and sputtering after his ascent up the stairs to her dressing room.
Planing for this year’s Fun Run with Puffing Billy has already started, with it set to take place in late November.
Police and high school staff have launched a joint enquiry after five pupils fell ill after puffing on a vape – which did not belong to them – containing an unknown substance.
Timothée, who was dressed down in a black baseball cap and black jacket, was seen puffing away on a cigarette.
Use the included de-puffing metal wand applicator to smooth it on evenly and enjoy a cooling sensation at the same time.
After huffing and puffing, Wimborne would find their winner late on.
A young man puffing out his chest, sporting a Stone Island jacket, wearing a cap and clutching a can of Stella or a bottle of Buckfast (depending on which side of the border you sit) have become synonymous with 'the football hooligan starter pack'.
Garcia could be seen puffing some smoke in what appeared to be cannabis as he enjoyed the celebrations, before he was seen laughing and said: 'We chilling'.
Grant boosts Puffing Billy Toy Library’s mission to support children with special needs.
Hurst and colleagues looked into plasma density, trying to destabilize the plasma by puffing in more and more gas.
Mr. Trump also accused Ms. Harris’s running mate, Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, of puffing up his résumé as a leader of a high school football team.
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.
The old smokers were puffing right in the centre of the Milky Way, a densely packed and metal-rich region called the Nuclear Stellar Disc.
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.
By 2018, he was puffing his famous end-of-season cigar triumphantly having helped the Sharks win the Currie Cup.
Common combinations with puffing
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- and puffing 12×
- puffing billy 11×
- puffing on 5×
- puffing out 5×
- the puffing 5×
- puffing up 4×
- puffing away 3×
- puffing in 3×
- puffing and 2×
- seen puffing 2×