Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for puffed (up)
Verb
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Stamos, McHugh Stamos, Billy and 20 of his best friends and family rolled up to the event in a party bus.—
Hannah Sacks,
PEOPLE,
13 Apr. 2026 -
As they were taken to a hospital with serious injures, the third person shot rolled up to a different hospital, police said, in a car hit by bullets.—
David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
12 Apr. 2026
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He got separated, then un-separated, then his wife gave birth during a car crash, then his wife blew up.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
17 Apr. 2026
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Nine Vicious blew up for a reason.—
Olivier Lafontant,
Pitchfork,
16 Apr. 2026
Verb
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The stopout population keeps growing overall, even as annual stopouts have declined and reenrollment has increased, according to data from the National Student Clearinghouse.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
14 Apr. 2026
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Overtime increased by 65% between 2019 and 2024 alone, the study said.—
Jeff McDonald,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Festival food prices are similarly inflated, with some fans reportedly paying $30 for a chicken sandwich and fries combo meal or upward of $40 for two slices of pizza and a beverage.—
Senior Food Editor,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Apr. 2026
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For decades, both countries have inflated threats posed by the other, which has hardened their resolve against finding common ground, Robert Malley, a former White House official who negotiated with Iran for the 2015 nuclear deal, and who is now a senior fellow at Yale’s Jackson School, told me.—
Robin Wright,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Boxing scenes in movies, other than in a handful of classics, tend to start to look all the same, a mishmash of beads of sweat and blood and jowels distended, all fists flying and battering as two men catapult and careen across the ring.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
19 Mar. 2026
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My stomach wasn't distended anymore.—
Deirdre Bardolf,
FOXNews.com,
19 Feb. 2026
Verb
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In other words, these are not first-generation black holes but recycled ones, built up through multiple rounds of collisions.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
12 Apr. 2026
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Still, a day later her leg swelled dangerously with what’s called compartment syndrome, in which blood flow becomes built up and stunted in a certain area and causes immense pressure.—
Dana O’Neil,
CNN Money,
12 Apr. 2026
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“Puffed (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/puffed%20%28up%29. Accessed 20 Apr. 2026.
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