Synonyms:
puffing, huffing, snorting
Meaning: an act of forcible exhalation
Synonyms:
puffing
Meaning: blowing tobacco smoke out into the air; "they smoked up the room with their ceaseless puffing"
Usage examples
For a while, he sat puffing his pipe and staring at the board.
Smith-Oldwick lighted his cigarette and sat puffing slowly upon it.
Whenever Grim goes to the surface, a puffing and growling is heard.
"You made a fine speech," declared Mr. Watson, gravely puffing his pipe. "I am very proud of you, my lad."
Up came Mr. King with an enormous bundle in his arms; and he marched up to the piano, puffing with his exertions.
There was old Bick cursing for all he was worth, and a little red-faced buffer puffing out his cheeks in an armchair.'
He was followed closely by the negro, who was puffing hard as if he had been running--so it was probably he who watched.
At this they quickly whirled around to find a funny little man sitting on a big copper chest, puffing smoke from a long pipe.
Curious times they were, with their smutty railways and puffing old iron trains, their rum little houses and their horse vehicles.
While I stood admiring this work of art, a fat wheezy steamtug, with the word AJAX in staring black letters on the paddlebox, came puffing up alongside the Typhoon.