I. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"That was unbelievably irresponsible," huffed one teacher.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He huffed and puffed-but failed to shake the growing edifice of evidence stacked up against him.
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Last weekend they huffed and puffed at the unbeaten league leaders Wasps and were within one try of blowing them down.
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Marvin huffed off to compose his cable.
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Now there's to be a schools painting competition about the bulldozers that can huff and puff and pull the house down.
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The butler inserted a hooked finger into his collar, grimaced and huffed.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
go
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It gloats when we win and goes in the huff when we lose.
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Owen went off in a huff and read the papers.
leave
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Aunt Glegg leaves in an insulted huff , saying she will call in the five hundred pounds she loaned to Tulliver.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Aunt Glegg leaves in an insulted huff , saying she will call in the five hundred pounds she loaned to Tulliver.
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Did Parks stomp off in a huff like some injured prima donna, some egomaniac?
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He retired to his basket in a huff and I went off to the supermarket in a quandary.
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He was in a little huff .
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He was still in a huff that she was planning to take Petey along to the meeting that night.
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It gloats when we win and goes in the huff when we lose.
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Owen went off in a huff and read the papers.