Sentence examples for a puff of powder from inspiring English sources

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The phrase "a puff of powder" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a small amount of powder that is released or dispersed, often in a light or airy manner.
Example: "She applied a puff of powder to her face to set her makeup for the day."
Alternatives: "a cloud of powder" or "a sprinkle of powder."

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"We have created a vaccine that will be administered in a little device that puts a puff of powder up the nose.

Our fantasies and nightmares made real, we now wait, almost expectantly, for the next plume, a puff of powder from a No. 10 envelope.

"He wormed the wire deeper into the stem, peered inside – and suddenly the wire slipped and a puff of powder came flying out of the pipe, straight into his eye".

The first use of the digital records to trace a tainted letter, postal officials say, was on Oct. 16, the day after an aide to Senator Daschle opened the letter to him at his Capitol Hill office, disgorging a puff of powder.

Every step he took a puff of powder exploded around his feet.

Apply a puff of powder over entire face to keep it in place.

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If your hands are still sweaty, excuse yourself and apply just a puff of baby powder, then rub it in.

One day Trinity Place will fall down, in a puff of plaster and powdered bone.

The sequence ended as it had to, with a blaze of flash powder and a puff of smoke timed to the final chord.

A puff of white cloud strayed across a powder-blue sky as Ms. Rockefeller walked the aisle of fresh cut grass in a Monique Lhuillier embroidered lace sheath gown and floor-length veil.

A puff of smoke.

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