Daniel Lyons

People who write about technology love to huff and puff and hyperbolize. The fate of the entire world seems to hang on every move made by Microsoft or Google or Apple. Every new smart phone gets billed as a potential 'iPhone killer,' while every new product from Apple represents the dawn of a new era. It's ridiculous - and exhausting.

American Writer

Ben Hecht

Out of the thousand writers huffing and puffing through movieland, there are scarcely fifty men and women of wit and talent... Yet, in a curious way, there is not much difference between the product of a good writer and a bad one. They both have to toe the same mark.

Steven Crowder

When I see out-of-shape, overweight people huffing and puffing in the gym, my eyes well up with tears of pride. I want to walk over to them, hug them, and say, 'Good on you for getting in here. It gets better!' You know why? Because they're challenging themselves.

Canadian Actor

Alison Sweeney

I'll do strength training in my dressing room between shoots, and I've been known to make business calls while out jogging. I try to mute myself on Bluetooth so they can't hear me huffing and puffing, but I usually end up getting caught.

American Actress

Finn Balor

I think everybody in WWE and NXT want to be involved in WrestleMania. I can huff and puff and push all I want, but that's something you just can't rush.

Irish Wrestler

Brennan Manning

Grace is sufficient even though we huff and puff with all our might to try and find something or someone that it cannot cover. Grace is enough.

American Author

Aidan Chambers

I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page - sometimes every word as well.

British Author

Frank Gore

When I see a guy on the football field huffing and puffing, I know I got an advantage over him.

American Athlete

Jessye Norman

I walk an 11-minute mile without huffing and puffing.

American Musician

Alexander Woollcott

American Critic

Use 'huff' to indicate someone is visibly annoyed, often with an expectation of a different outcome.

Expressing irritation

'Huff' can also refer to the sound made when exerting physical effort or exercising.

Physical exertion

'Huff' is often used to subtly show disapproval without verbal confrontation.

Subtle disapproval

'Huff' as a noun usually describes a short-lived bad mood or temporary annoyance.

Temporary mood

Describing someone in a 'huff' can imply an immature or unnecessarily dramatic reaction.

Childish connotation

Avoid using 'huff' in formal writing; it's better suited for casual conversation or narrative.

Not for formal use

'Huff' can be used to describe nature's forceful but not violent actions like wind gusts.

Nature's movement

The verb 'huff' can refer to an expressive non-verbal sound made by a person or animal.

Non-verbal sound

Unlike more intense synonyms, 'huff' often indicates a softer action or less dramatic effect.

Gentle action

 predatory fish within the system so especially things like the catfish that swim around you know they'll eat all these little tiny fish and so they try and get right up into the shallows where the catfish can't go and yes I mean this hippos don't want to share the spotlight today at all they every time we try and show something they start huffing and

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 for days or weeks so they're just head down and they're eating as much as they possibly can and every time bikers are going by it's it's a bit of an annoyance and I think that's what's happening now we're seeing quite a few cases of bears huffing at people chasing people because they don't want to be disturbed from

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 Abdul-Latif had a history of huffing gasoline and attempting suicide. Mujahidh had schizoaffective disorder, he had trouble distinguishing between reality and fantasy. In 2012, the FBI arrested these two men for conspiring to attack a military recruiting station outside Seattle

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 came tearing down the hill again I could hear her huffing and puffing and she tied in to me again but I was really prepared that time and that time she just kind of bit my scalp and tried to claw through my back and then and she left I laid there for a few more seconds and

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 start huffing and puffing really hard and get covered in sweat a couple hours later we'll be walking around in t-shirts fighting off dehydration it's a unique aspect of the mountains of Ethiopia and any mountains in an equatorial place where you get summer

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 because I knew I was going to huff and puff during this conversation. And yet, I've taken that idea and made it my own. So instead of going to coffee meetings or fluorescent-lit conference room meetings, I ask people to go on a walking meeting,

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 and interpret the oracle's babblings. So the oracle didn't stand alone, and neither should our big data systems. Now to be clear, I'm not saying that big data systems are huffing ethylene gas, or that they're even giving invalid predictions.

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 “What? How dare you!” the queen huffs. “I’ll prove it right now, and then it’s off with your head!” Before she can protest, Alice is dragged toward a field with two chessboard patterns—

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 so healthy they've been inside that huff for so long it's a real safe haven for them so it's a massive leap for them but it's just the start of the journey

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 oh hey look you just eyeballed us you see them stick his nose out and have a look yeah that's smart huffing and they actually would totally have a look at

Huff

Expressing irritation

Physical exertion

Subtle disapproval

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