• Soon with a whistle and a puff a steam train chugged through the snaky valley below.
• Letting a puff of tired laughter escape his lips, Shanza added, ‘I spoke to Dezra.’
• Three puffs of steam from the ship's whistle verified it received and understood the message.

• Everyone rushes for their cameras while he turns into a puff of smoke.
• Of course, it's not good to see a cherished icon of the community disappear in a puff of smoke, but I can't pretend my feelings about the disappearance of this old bird were anything but mixed.
• With that, the adorable little demon disappeared in a puff of sulfurous smoke leaving behind only a feeling of unspeakable dread.

• He took a long puff of his cigar then sighed, blowing a steady stream of smoke.
• The Rat Cutter took a few defiant puffs on his cigar.
• ‘I can talk until I'm blue in the face,’ he once famously said, in between puffs on his Dominican cigar.

Synonyms

• Two musicians had enough puff left over after blowing their instruments to chase a thief who stole their band's collection bucket.
• Scotland isn't very good at blowing its own trumpet, but luckily Tommy has puff to spare.
• Defending himself Mr Stickley said: ‘I suffer from asthma and so I could not bring up enough puff for the test.’

• Not all statements are contractual in nature as some may be mere representations or commendatory puffs which, if true, lack any legal value.
• The Big Caff, despite the promotional puff was actually quite small and bleak.
• This document might in other circumstances not be taken too seriously, and be treated as a mere advertising puff, in which a strict regard for the truth is not to be expected.

Synonyms

• From crimped waves to Afro puffs, fringed ends to soft waves, hair that gets noticed for being anything but flat is where it's at.
• With her puff of black hair and sharp violet eyes, she shone out from among the other homogenous bland and blonde MGM beauties of her time, suggesting intelligence behind the acting.
• Her puffs of tobacco-brown hair billowing about her shoulders.

• I rolled back onto the bed feeling the residual warmth of our bodies still radiating from the pillows and puff.
• In the center a low table was set up surrounded with chairs, pillows and puffs.

• It is a million miles away from the romantic shots of steam trains puffing their way across rural landscapes that most of us are used to.
• Mist on the mountain draws me back sun on the sea so grand steam trains puffing on the railroad track away in the Isle of Man.
• And Knysna, where you can board the Outeniqua Choo-Tjoe, a tiny steam train that puffs its way round the lagoon to George, down the coast.

• One of the remaining models pulled out a cigarette and puffed on it nervously in an attempt to relieve the stress.
• Gil puffed on his cigarette and sipped his brandy.
• Candice sat beside him and poked him in the ribs as she puffed on a cigarette, ‘So?’

Synonyms

• He filled it with tobacco and lit it, puffing the sweet smelling smoke around the car.
• Boiling pools of dark mysterious liquid puff smoke of rancid sulphur fumes.
• She puffs some smoke into the younger girl's face to emphasize.

• Pride is viewed as a negative characteristic, a feeling of conceit or being puffed up with an arrogant superiority.
• He must not be a recent convert, or he may be puffed up with conceit and fall into the condemnation of the devil.
• Canada is puffed up that we signed the Kyoto Protocol in the face of a big industry lobby.