How to Use puff out in a Sentence

puff out

verb
  • Broncos Country should puff out its chest.
    — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 8 Feb. 2026
  • When that happens, stars puff out into red giants.
    — Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 7 Sep. 2025
  • The veteran coach had his chest puffed out throughout his postgame news conference.
    — Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Yeah but … so many of their wins have been close, too close for anyone involved to puff out their chest as February begins.
    — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 31 Jan. 2026
  • Yet Marsch’s chest-pumping attitude could give players the confidence to puff out their own chests on the pitch.
    — Joshua Kloke, New York Times, 24 June 2026
  • For example, lifting the eyebrows while keeping the forehead smooth; puffing out the cheeks and holding it; or gently pressing against the jawline to enhance neck muscles.
    — Essence, 14 Jan. 2026
  • But there’s also a lot of competitive animosity, puffing out, and out grimacing each other.
    — Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 25 June 2026
  • As the sun's core collapses, its outer layers, where nuclear fusion is still occurring, will puff out to around 100 times the original width of the sun — maybe more.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 23 Apr. 2026
  • In a video of the incident, about a half-dozen women, unarmed and dressed for the classroom, square off against at least four masked agents of the federal government, their chests puffed out under bulky tactical gear.
    — Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2026
  • According to the researchers, these bewildering clouds are likely the remnants of much larger structures that puffed out of the galaxy's center several million years ago.
    — Brandon Specktor, Space.com, 10 Aug. 2025
  • This results in the outer layers of the star where nuclear fusion is still occurring, puffing out and expanding the star's radius to as much as 100 times its original size.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 22 June 2026
  • If that is the case, the Ring Nebula could be a portent of what awaits Earth in around 5 billion years when the sun runs out of fuel for nuclear fusion and puffs out to become a red giant.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 19 Jan. 2026
  • Members of the Seattle Seahawks’ front office can puff out their chests this offseason, knowing other teams will be dissecting their roster-building approach in an attempt to replicate it.
    — Jeff Howe, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Once orbiting each other, the brown dwarfs would have gradually spiraled closer and closer together, with the gravitational influence of one brown dwarf causing its counterpart to puff out and become less dense.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Alternatively, the formation of this arc of iron plasma could be the result of the Ring Nebula's doomed star vaporizing an orbiting rocky planet as its outer layers puffed out.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 19 Jan. 2026
  • When Boles left, the 24-year-old puffed out his cheeks, tried to gather himself and began walking down pit road toward the media center, passing by the elevated victory circle where Rosenqvist was celebrating above him.
    — Jeff Gluck, New York Times, 24 May 2026

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