How to Use buff in a Sentence

buff

1 of 3 noun

• This is a good road trip for movie buffs, too.
  — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 20 Dec. 2025
• Your kids may just head home history buffs.
  — Moira McCarthy, Boston Herald, 19 Apr. 2026
• The current buffs aren’t enough and the others are miles away.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
• Of course, history buffs get their fix, too.
  — Benjamin Svetkey, HollywoodReporter, 30 Oct. 2025
• Beach Boys buffs are hoping this set will have been worth the long wait.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 21 Jan. 2026
• Aficionados and out-of-town art buffs make up the bulk of the guests.
  — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Apr. 2026
• And Jake did music, all kinds, was a movie buff, loved the movies.
  — Katie Mannion, Peoplemag, 15 Oct. 2023
• The cast then is split up into their three tribes and received their buffs.
  — Christopher Kuhagen, jsonline.com, 25 Feb. 2026
• Film buffs might recognize that name.
  — Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 14 Jan. 2026
• History buffs, this one’s for you.
  — Desiree Mathurin march 10, Charlotte Observer, 10 Mar. 2026
• For the fitness buff on your list, scoop up this dice set that will push them to their limits.
  — Mark Stock, Men's Health, 14 Dec. 2022
• This week, a fever dream for history buffs and fireplace lovers.
  — Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 16 Mar. 2026
• Here’s one auction that sports car history buffs will want to keep an eye on.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 23 Feb. 2026
• This one's great for musicians, dancers and even fitness buffs.
  — Fox News, 17 Sep. 2023
• You’re supposed to be movie buffs or whatever.
  — G. Allen Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Mar. 2026
• But will the second chapter be able to expand its fanbase of sci-fi buffs?
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 27 Feb. 2024
• Film buffs and Disney fans alike will love searching for the easter eggs.
  — Katie Grant, Parents, 25 Nov. 2025
• Car enthusiasts will know his name and movie buffs will know his creations.
  — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 10 Mar. 2023
• Aviation buffs can see the jet in person before that, though.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 18 Oct. 2023
• Music buffs fly to see their favorite artists at festivals.
  — Karla Walsh, Southern Living, 24 Sep. 2025
• Some heroes have been given buffs, although none seem to be quite as big as the nerfs handed out.
  — Mike Stubbs, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
• For safari buffs, few sights beat the great wildebeest migration.
  — Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 9 Dec. 2023
• Goodreads and Letterboxd for bookworms and movie buffs.
  — Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic, 20 Oct. 2025
• For film buffs and red carpet watchers alike, there's no awards show night quite like the Oscars.
  — Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 12 Mar. 2023
• But the gearbox sending all that grunt to the rear axle will be as much of a selling point for some street truck buffs out there.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 11 Nov. 2025
• Its longtime owner may be of interest to hair metal buffs too.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 27 Mar. 2023
• But my very dead, beloved Chaos Reach is indeed also getting a buff.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 4 May 2023
• Hailey Bieber appears to be quite the movie buff this Halloween!
  — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 1 Nov. 2023
• This gift is for music buffs who alphabetizes their records and their novels.
  — Francesca Krempa, StyleCaster, 25 Nov. 2025
• And so really anyone who cares about movie history, or is a film buff, this is the book for them.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Dec. 2023

buff

2 of 3 adjective

• He's at the gym every day trying to get buff.
• Their head, back and upper wings are a mix of buff and gray, while their face, body and underwings are white.
  — Laura Schulte, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Nov. 2021
• Then again, few of us are as buff as The Rock or as suave as James Bond.
  — Callum Borchers, WSJ, 31 Mar. 2022
• Then, tap or brush off any excess powder (many kits include a buff brush) and repeat the process to ensure an even coat.
  — Tatjana Freund, ELLE, 22 Dec. 2022
• All the women were thin, all the men were buff, and everybody was always touching each other.
  — Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2021
• Barred Rocks, buff Orpingtons and all types of bantams set well.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Apr. 2022
• But most of the attention has come from other boys on TikTok looking to get buff.
  — New York Times, 5 Mar. 2022
• My partners played with them on a mix of urban streets and buff mountain trails in their respective desert and high-mountain locales.
  — Peter Koch, Outside Online, 18 Oct. 2022
• The company’s logo is a silhouette of a buff runner holding a wine glass in one hand and a bunch of grapes in the other.
  — Dave McIntyre, Washington Post, 19 May 2022
• What a buff move for a man who has had a pretty amazing 2020, despite the pandemic.
  — Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 7 Nov. 2020
• And fittingly for the role, Hemsworth getting extremely buff.
  — Julie Mazziotta, PEOPLE.com, 8 Sep. 2021
• While the defense looks buff with its bevy of playmakers, the bigger questions are with the offensive unit that used to carry the team.
  — Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 20 Aug. 2020
• The buff four-banger is hooked to a nine-speed automatic in place of the 2022 model's seven-speed.
  — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 21 Nov. 2022
• Many animals compensate for puny muscles with speed, but muscles—even in the buffest bodybuilder—can only contract so fast.
  — National Geographic, 7 Apr. 2016
• The kid just wanted to drink his green juice and crochet scarves live on the internet and also be somewhat inexplicably buff.
  — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 18 Oct. 2024
• Aspen’s mountain biking trails include flowing, buff dirt and technical climbs and descents.
  — Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2021
• Trimming the losers while moving funds into defensive or hedging positions can reduce losses and even buff returns.
  — Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 18 May 2022
• The visible vying carried over offscreen to which actor had the buffest body in the movie's mostly shirtless, now legendary beach volleyball game.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 13 May 2020
• The depictions may even parallel art decorating Kushan coins, which also feature the buff bovines.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Jan. 2020
• But the magic of Christmas is found in the unexplained, not in watching a buff Santa rappelling into all the world’s chimneys.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 13 Nov. 2024
• Sorry to be blunt, but is a guy whose buff photos are highlighted on TMZ going to be looking for love on Facebook?
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 11 Nov. 2020
• And in this moment, at 47 years old, Hahn is finally hitting a career zenith in a genre dominated by buff dudes named Chris.
  — Angela Watercutter, Wired, 5 Mar. 2021
• Turns out the young man in the pool with whom Portia locked eyes that night was Quentin’s nephew, Jack, a buff English lad brimming with naïve confidence.
  — Donna Bowman, Chron, 20 Nov. 2022
• This year’s event was relatively subdued, more of an informal, spontaneous gathering with just a few in-the-buff cyclists joining the families, lookie-loos and plunge participants on the beach before noon.
  — Jill Tucker, SFChronicle.com, 1 Jan. 2021
• Although one buff computer programmer, scouted off the street to model a few days before the opening, wore a red visor and ribbed tank—a sensitive meathead aesthetic plucked from the year 2000.
  — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 16 Sep. 2022
• Amazon bought IMDb in 1998 and supercharged the reach of its content, but its film-buff knowledge-production skunkworks remained largely untouched. IMDb’s emergence almost cost Gary Brumburgh a decade of his life.
  — WIRED, 21 Feb. 2023
• But in a cheeky (and provocative, especially for the time) twist ending that surely delighted her gay fanbase, the newly buff gentlemen leave together instead of hearing ONJ's body talk.
  — Billboard, 29 July 2021
• Wahlberg often shows off his buff body on Instagram, especially after starting F45 training — a fitness franchise that began in Australia and that the actor is an investor in.
  — Georgia Slater, PEOPLE.com, 9 Apr. 2021
• By contrast, and fortunately for us, sitting just to Monsieur Pinault’s left in this shot, is the ne plus ultra of global peacocks and not least, the most buff aging rocker there is, Lenny Kravitz, age 60.
  — Guy Martin, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
• The Chanel Le Vernis Ballerina shade is an elevated take on a basic buff manicure — providing a glossy sheen that straddles the line between sophisticated and lighthearted.
  — Stacia Datskovska, WWD, 11 Dec. 2024

buff

3 of 3 verb

• The floors are waxed and buffed every year.
• She is going to the salon to get her nails buffed.
• Some scratches can be buffed out.
  — Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 2 Oct. 2025
• Some scratches can be buffed out.
  — Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 7 Jan. 2026
• Use a dry microfiber cloth to buff the stain away.
  — Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 19 Apr. 2026
• Use a dry microfiber cloth to buff the stain away.
  — Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 13 Aug. 2025
• Use a dry microfiber cloth to buff the stain away.
  — Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 14 Feb. 2026
• Use a dry microfiber cloth to buff the stain away.
  — Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 20 Nov. 2025
• Rinse, then buff the silver with a soft cloth.
  — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 29 Dec. 2025
• Then buff the marks off using a dry, lint-free cloth.
  — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 29 Dec. 2025
• Then buff the marks off using a dry, lint-free cloth.
  — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 29 Dec. 2025
• But the rough edges of the series haven't been buffed out.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 13 Nov. 2025
• This will help buff it in and prevent streaks and smudges.
  — Deanna Pai, Glamour, 6 June 2026
• Its edge got buffed down, as did some of its creative panache.
  — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2019
• Rinse in warm water and buff with a clean, dry cloth to shine.
  — Lauren Smith, Good Housekeeping, 20 Nov. 2018
• Then, let your screen air dry and buff again with a microfiber cloth.
  — Zee Krstic, Good Housekeeping, 25 Apr. 2022
• Want to learn to change your oil or buff out scratches in your new paint job?
  — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 20 Aug. 2021
• Then follow up by buffing with a dry one.
  — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 9 Jan. 2026
• Be sure to buff around the ankles and heels and between the toes.
  — Adam Hurly, Robb Report, 3 Feb. 2022
• Her cheeks were sculpted with contour and buffed with a pink blush.
  — Gabi Thorne, Allure, 22 Sep. 2023
• Follow with a clean dry cloth to dry and buff the tiles and get rid of any streaks.
  — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 20 June 2026
• With a flat brush, buff out that same gray on your lower lashline.
  — Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 23 July 2021
• To bring back a lustrous shine, buff the tiles with a dry cotton cloth.
  — Halee Miller, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Sep. 2023
• These Egyptian loofah sponges buff away dead skin for a much smoother feel.
  — Jamie Wilson, Harper's BAZAAR, 31 Aug. 2022
• Apply a thin coat and rub it in with a microfiber cloth and then buff it.
  — Henry Robertson, Popular Mechanics, 7 Dec. 2018
• This can help buff away some of the dead skin and smooth the surface safely.
  — Isadora Baum, SELF, 5 Mar. 2019
• Wipe away the toothpaste residue with a damp cloth and buff the wood with a soft, dry cloth.
  — Mary Marlowe Leverette, The Spruce, 4 Mar. 2026
• For a shiny finish, leave it to cure overnight and then buff it into a high sheen.
  — Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 14 Apr. 2021
• Apply warm water with a cloth or sponge and lightly buff the area.
  — Amy Mitchell, Country Living, 14 Jan. 2020
• Then, use your finger to buff it out towards the center of your lips.
  — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 30 June 2021