Sentence examples for a sort of puff from inspiring English sources

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The phrase "a sort of puff" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is light, airy, or insubstantial, often in a metaphorical sense.
Example: "The dessert was delightful, a sort of puff that melted in my mouth."
Alternatives: "a kind of fluff" or "a type of lightness".

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Twist and push up so the hair stands up and stays in a sort of puff and clip down.

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Mark Strong looks uncomfortable as Hal Jordan's moody David Niven-esque mentor Sinestro and the major threat to the survival of Earth which Hal is Green Lanterned up to avert is revealed as a sort of giant cheesy puff monster: not all that scary unless you're lactose intolerant or on a strict diet.

And so to recap: the Sun on Sunday got hold of a video of Lord Sewel saying Tony Blair was bad imo and George Bush was a bad artist imo and that David Cameron was some sort of puff of air in the shape of a human, a sort of faceless and substanceless paste, more press release than man imo, and then the police raided his house and long story short: today he resigned from being a Lord.

A performance piece called Cloud, for Design Miami/Basel 2011, created a sort of canopy by sending puffs of helium-filled soap clouds into an overhead net.

If, as the environment movement contends, fossil fuels are the new tobacco, then Australia has cast itself as a sort of swaggering Marlboro man, puffing away contentedly as the rest of the world looks on quizzically.

"One of the pigs makes a noise that sounds like a sort of trumpet". One little piglet has the nickname "little boiler" for his incessant huffing and puffing.

2087 An American Bistro: Chef Alex Molina has invented a special dessert for cherry season: two rounds of puff pastry covered with cherry mascarpone mousse glistening with cherry syrup with a hint of almond formed into a sort of napoleon.

"A sort of blank".

"A sort of dream.

A sort of aspic.

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