Sentence examples for become puffed up from inspiring English sources

Though Petrobras, subject to market discipline, is relatively lean, any new state company might quickly become puffed up by political appointees.

And although he enjoyed praise and gratitude, they never seemed to go to his head; he never usurped the primary role of the author or congratulated himself or became puffed up about his sharp eye for talent or his eminent position.

We have nothing to get puffed up or prideful about.

When the female gets a dark gravid spot and then becomes very puffed up and blocky and starts to get an uneven look around the torso, she's full of fry and about to give birth.

"Although shy of the task at first, after several months she soon became quite puffed up, emboldened to the point where my advice often fell on to ears that remained deaf to it".

This transformed his social position, and one chronicler at Waltham Holy Cross complained how he "became intolerably puffed up ... and looked down upon every other eminence in the world except the King".

So I saw the little movies become inflated and puffed up and outsize themselves, and the money upstaged the story and a casting choice could be totally wrong.

The movement of the air shouldn't cause the pages to flutter or flap in the wind, as this can lead the pages to become ruffled and "puffed up" when they dry.

Elected MPs are not children – but all of us adults still quite like being told when to stop or when we are wrong, so we don't become puffed-up versions of ourselves.

"At some point, those we consider 'visionaries' become puffed-up creations of their own imagination," says management consultant Gary Namie.

He talked about how easily writers could become vain, complaining that they got puffed up by the same "authorities" who approved putting monosodium glutamate in baby food.