Sentence examples for buff from inspiring English sources

The word 'buff' is correct and usable in written English
You can use 'buff' to describe a person who is muscular, attractive, and/or in good physical condition. For example, "I saw this buff guy in the gym yesterday."

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buff

noun

Undyed leather from the skin of buffalo or similar animals.

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During the game of blind-man's buff, when the Prince's tutor Gallison grabs a lady-in-waiting with inadvertent lewdness, Ratmansky gives precise notes about how the woman needs to deliver her admonitory slap – "it must hurt a little bit, but do it with love".

The film, which finds Lautner's inexplicably buff yet baby-faced courier escape from the Chinese mafia into the sexy world of jumping off things on to other things, eventually made its debut on a pay-per-view channel in the US earlier this year.

The sharp humour runs throughout this narrative-led game, as fun if you're a Shakespeare buff as for complete newcomers to the Bard.

But inside the rehearsal studios of American Ballet Theatre, fairies dance and courtiers amuse themselves in a gentle game of blind-man's buff, as choreographer Alexei Ratmansky directs his dancers through the second act of Marius Petipa's Sleeping Beauty.

And as a feminist who is also a music critic, it depresses me deeply that female pop performers find it difficult to market their songs without licking mallets in the buff (as Cyrus does in the video for Wrecking Ball).

We all know that Kim's father was an avowed movie buff – it's only fitting that his son follow in his footsteps".

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On October 31st 2008 Satoshi Nakamoto, a pseudonymous cryptography buff whose real identity remains a mystery, unveiled a project he dubbed bitcoin, "a new electronic cash system that's fully peer-to-peer, with no trusted third party".

Mr Maliki is trying to buff up his image as the strongman who can provide law and order.

But she was a politics buff, and ambitious; her entire household took a keen interest in events on the western side of the wall.When the barrier came down, that proved a winning combination.

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