What is "chuffing"

Usage examples of "chuffing".

The chuffing of the griffins grew in pitch until it became a cross between a yelp and howl.

All at once he started awake, hearing that ringing beat, but he realized he was listening to the chuffing of the griffins.

A raven swung upside down on a whalebone perch, making the soft chuffing noises of a bird whose vocal cords had felt the heat of a throat-iron upon hatching.

Copernik the line had been electrified, and the lack of coal smoke and the pounding, chuffing sound of a steam locomotive was a little eerie.

A deep chuffing, the hollow sound steam made when exhausted into the stack of a light ship, and the soft continual surf noise of a bow wave curving away from the prow, just on the edge of hearing.

We drove off, the machine chuffing and rattling in response to the things she did to a collection of levers.

The bear passed close enough to my window that I could smell the hot rank odor of her fur, and hear her heavy chuffing breath.

All at once he started awake, hearing that ringing beat, but he realized he was listening to the chuffing of the griffins.

In less than an hour the astonishing array of tropical life-forms, the knitted texture of an organic art, was reduced to the numbing reiteration of your own plodding feet, the complex orchestration of animal and insect sound condensed to the chuffing of your own breath in your own sea-throbbing ear.

LARGE WHITE MALE TIGER was making a chuffing sound, a muted, backward whistle.

Chapter 10 THELARGE WHITE MALE TIGER was making a chuffing sound, a muted, backward whistle.

Then, almost too soon, the loud chuffings, squee-eeings, and ecstatic breachings of dolphins told him the danger had passed.