(1) He huffed and puffed, gazed at the heavens at times, and at one point he accused the country’s foremost human rights officer of verballing him.
(2) You can already hear the huffing protests: what possible business is that of his?
(3) Pierre Laurent, national secretary of the French Communist party and president of the European Left party, himself a former journalist, was having no truck with those waving their arms about and huffing and puffing about not being able to address the Greek politician.
(4) In other words, despite huffing and puffing about the details of Ukip policy ( witness the absurd spectacle of Labour forensically tackling its views on the NHS ), all that is for the birds.
(5) The family-run Huf Haus, which celebrated its 100th anniversary this year, has built about 180 prefab houses in the UK since coming here 11 years ago.
(6) For a while this was in danger of turning into something of an anti-climax as Wales, 72 hours after securing their place in France, huffed and puffed without success against an Andorra side who had lost their previous 53 competitive matches and spent the day of the game strolling around a Sports Direct shop.
(7) Wilson described Brown as a “demon” – as an “it” – as a monstrous creature, stomping and huffing, and building up momentum for a final assault, like the Incredible Hulk – all comic-book id and no superego.
(8) Even walking through the gardens to get there is like huffing on an oxygen mask.
(9) Whatever is the right answer over legality and risk, there remains something distinctly dystopian about the cheap, barely-there high that comes from huffing on a balloon.
(10) UNITED LABOUR AGAINST QPR Also important was United's failure to eat into City's goal difference against the 10 men of Wolves – they declared at 5-0 with 30 minutes remaining – and at Old Trafford against QPR: Shaun Derry was sent off after 14 minutes, but United huffed and puffed to a 2-0 win.
(11) Meanwhile, a growing number of German timber frame companies such as Huf Haus and Baufritz have come to Britain.
(12) We introduce a general network thermodynamic method for compartmental analysis which uses a compartmental model of sodium flows through frog skin as an illustrative example (Huf and Howell, 1974a).
(13) FET consisted of postural drainage, breathing exercises, huffing, and coughing.
(14) Arsenal huffed and puffed but they created few noteworthy opportunities after that moment, 27 minutes in, when Rooney sent over a wonderfully taken corner and the visitors' preference for zonal marking meant Van Persie could attack the ball without anyone following his run.
(15) A fibroblast-like cell line (HuF), which was obtained by subculturing fetal human liver cells 4 or more times, was briefly treated with hydrocortisone (HC) or putrescine (PUT).
(16) After huffing and puffing about how everything was in order, the Commons intelligence and security committee has at last announced an inquiry.
(17) PEP consisted of PEP-mask breathing interspersed with breathing exercises, huffing, and coughing.
(18) As Blair stammered, huffed and shifted in his seat, Stewart concluded that: “19 people flew into the towers.
(19) Weathering this gentle breeze, Norwich reasserted themselves and, clearly increasingly alarmed by so much home puffing and huffing, Poyet replaced Emmanuele Giaccherini with Adam Johnson.
(20) Beyond the political huffing and puffing, the debate about what Pfizer would have to pay to bag AstraZeneca always seemed straightforward: a bid of £60 a share or thereabouts would be a knockout; anything less and Pfizer would struggle to get an agreement.
Huffer
Definition:
(n.) A bully; a blusterer.
Example Sentences:
(1) Previous studies suggested that other components, apart from elastin, might be involved in the alterations of this connective tissue disorder (Martinez-Hernandez and Huffer, 1974; Pasquali Ronchetti et al., 1981; 1986).
(2) We believe that "huffer's" neuropathy is a primary axonal neuropathy with secondary demyelination.