How to Use puffball in a Sentence

puffball

noun

• Kick or squeeze a mature puffball and clouds of dust-like spores will rise up.
  — Bill Heavey, Field & Stream, 7 Dec. 2020
• Tully watched the video of the incident that injured Noel, a fox-red puffball on very short legs.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2021
• Fraga had first met the plant in late spring, when the rains coax out a single pale yellow puffball of a blossom.
  — Gregory Barber, Wired, 17 June 2021
• The puffball tree absorbs chlorine from the air and sodium through its roots and creates salt that animals get from the leaves.
  — Marjie Lambert, miamiherald, 16 June 2017
• Shooting hot air directly on to your hair is the quickest way to damage your strands and turn your crown into a big, frizzy puffball.
  — Joane Amay, Allure, 2 Apr. 2018
• No ponytails, ducktails, rat-tails, male bun or puffballs shall be allowed on male students.
  — Char Adams, PEOPLE.com, 13 Sep. 2019
• Other choices suggested that a more modern, efficient glamor is in, and the era of the large sweeping puffball of a dress may be over.
  — Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 28 Mar. 2022
• Across his grotesque torso are moist, rubbery pustules that look a bit like puffball mushrooms (which, in the hands of a good chef, actually are quite tasty).
  — Don Steinberg, WSJ, 11 Feb. 2023
• Kirby and the Forgotten Land launched last Friday, bringing the pink puffball into a 3D open-world environment for the first time.
  — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 29 Mar. 2022
• And nearly everybody scorned the team’s puffball schedule.
  — New York Times, 10 Jan. 2020
• To accept the award, Lopez wore a gorgeous flouncy red mini dress by Christian Siriano, featuring a high collar and a puffball hem.
  — Emily Dixon, Marie Claire, 16 Nov. 2020
• Bischoff has friends who stalk puffballs in Woodland Cemetery in West Philadelphia.
  — Samantha Melamed, Philly.com, 29 Sep. 2017
• Flavors such as such as beer cheese, spicy ginger curry and dark chocolate cherry thickly coat mondo, tender-crisp puffballs that beg more than a PBR.
  — Liz Biro, Indianapolis Star, 19 Jan. 2018
• Northern Hemisphere observers can catch this comet floating through the constellation Aquarius very low in the pre-dawn skies, looking like a tiny puffball hanging in the morning twilight.
  — Gerald Rhemman, National Geographic, 8 Apr. 2017
• Daudert's personal favorite ways to eat the tasty fungi are shiitake on frozen pizzas, lion's mane mushrooms in stir fry and puffball cubed as a meat-alternative.
  — Samantha Hendrickson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Feb. 2022
• Some images show what appear to be white patches resembling lichen covering parts of the surface, while others show spherical structures that the researchers suggest may be akin to puffball fungi on Earth.
  — Mike Wehner, BGR, 9 May 2021
• With only his body weighing the massive, puffball-like sheep down, Gray’s husband desperately needed reinforcements.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Apr. 2020
• Floating mountains and plants such as bladder polyps, puffball trees and the flaska reclinata give Pandora a distinctive, otherworldly look.
  — Dewayne Bevil, OrlandoSentinel.com, 9 Apr. 2018

Last Updated: 21 Aug 2024