Examples of in a huff in a Sentence
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Kerouac gathered it up in a huff, claimed it would never be edited, and stalked out.
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Vince Passaro, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
Back at the cooking lesson, Meredith eventually joins them, but is so in a huff that even their instructor, Giovanni, takes notice and consoles her.
—Tom Smyth, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2025
Trump, however, has repeatedly criticized Russia’s expulsion and made no secret of his disdain for the G-7—even quitting its 2018 summit in a huff.
—Stewart Patrick, Foreign Affairs, 18 Sep. 2025
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.
—Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2025
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Vince Passaro, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
Back at the cooking lesson, Meredith eventually joins them, but is so in a huff that even their instructor, Giovanni, takes notice and consoles her.
—Tom Smyth, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2025
Trump, however, has repeatedly criticized Russia’s expulsion and made no secret of his disdain for the G-7—even quitting its 2018 summit in a huff.
—Stewart Patrick, Foreign Affairs, 18 Sep. 2025
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.
—Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2025
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“In a huff.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/in%20a%20huff. Accessed 10 Jan. 2026.
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