Sentence examples for puff breath from inspiring English sources

While a jigging Princess Elizabeth and the mournful Brontë sisters may appear to fulfil our desire to reanimate the past, to puff breath into desiccated body parts and get the blood pulsing round the archive, they always stop short of full resurrection.

Speech begins with a puff of breath.

(Aspirated consonants are sounds accompanied by a puff of breath).

If you still have a smudge, add moisture with a puff of breath, and rub longer without the pressure.

That is, the dialects have lost the feature of aspiration, which sounds like a puff of breath accompanying a consonant.

At one point, he sent a puff of breath under a circle of pizza dough, and it lifted from the cornmeal-dusted surface like a hovercraft.

This sentence struck them both as so funny that they laughed heartily, and then for a while they had to huff and puff for breath.

As the track threatens to peter out, she lets out another, almost choked "sorry", followed by a resigned puff of breath.

Gradually, the rhythm takes on other sonorities: the tap of wood against violin strings; a sharp puff of breath down a wind instrument.

"I don't want to see," she said in a small voice, each syllable a hot puff of breath on the bare skin of my chest.

You can read incredulity, repressed hilarity, distaste and mad glee behind his eyes, but all he does is let out a teensy puff of breath.