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To be proud v
(en-pastpuff up)
Usage examples of "puffed up".
He laughed boisterously, clapped me on the shoulder and puffed up the stairs into the court house.
A simple, homespun quiver containing twenty new arrows bounced gently against his back as he puffed up the forest trail.
After months in the mountains -- living as his ancestors had, on wits and his own sweat, his toughened skin growing used to the sun and the scratchy rub of native fibers -- Robert still had not yet realized the changes in himself, not until he puffed up the last few meters of the narrow, rocky trail and crossed in ten long strides from one watershed to another.
After months in the mountains-living as his ancestors had, on wits and his own sweat, his toughened skin growing used to the sun and the scratchy rub of native fibers-Robert still had not yet realized the changes in himself, not until he puffed up the last few meters of the narrow, rocky trail and crossed in ten long strides from one watershed to another.
He inhaled on his pipe, and puffed up a volcanic cloud from the hissing bowl.
Surrounded, the gray arched its back and spat, tail puffed up like a sausage.
He'd come to look a bit sourly on adventures by that time, having had his fill, and yet he couldn't help but feel a bit puffed up over the notion of being a central figure in the river doings.
The leaves under the porch crackled and puffed up a sour old smell.