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Sometimes Evie imagined the land, the world, the city around her as a cartoon neighborhood, the houses’ edges elastic like balloons, their walls filling up and bloating and then, all at once, popping: ejecting out the riffraff and trash in a huff.
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Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2025
Some, snubbed by their companions, stomp off in a huff or peck adjacent fans instead, while youthful pairs looking to lock lips are thwarted by chaperoning adults.
—Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 3 Aug. 2025
By issue three, the teenaged Human Torch quits the team in a huff.
—Oliver Staley, Time, 25 July 2025
The footage shows Murphy inside an empty tent, looking out of the clear PVC window and sitting in the corner, seemingly in a huff.
—Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 July 2025
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Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2025
Some, snubbed by their companions, stomp off in a huff or peck adjacent fans instead, while youthful pairs looking to lock lips are thwarted by chaperoning adults.
—Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 3 Aug. 2025
By issue three, the teenaged Human Torch quits the team in a huff.
—Oliver Staley, Time, 25 July 2025
The footage shows Murphy inside an empty tent, looking out of the clear PVC window and sitting in the corner, seemingly in a huff.
—Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for in a huff
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“In a huff.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/in%20a%20huff. Accessed 3 Sep. 2025.
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