Huff in a sentence as a noun

I don't understand all the huff on that forum about this.

Two beachgoers came in a bit after me, stared at the menu for 15 minutes, and left in a huff.

Most people couldn't understand why a select few of us were getting in such a huff about this.

The "huff" is that this forum is the attempted community fork of Slashdot that even less people care about.

You need people with brains and integrity, and the rest of it is just huff and puff nonsense from HR people who don't have a clue, and couldn't do the job their hirees do.

Huff in a sentence as a verb

The person who doesn't work spends half the day running errands that would take 45m in a car. If both parents work, You pay 2x for diapers at CVS vs Target, spend half your evening on the bus to pick up your kid from daycare and huff groceries home for dinner, etc.

Conventional wisdom gets in a self-righteous huff over how the different Inquisitions censored books.

I tried to negotiate, and the CEO came back in a huff and basically said I was an idiot for turning down the job, and why do I even bother with startups in the first place if I want so much money?

It's for toddlers to learn to take turns, to accept negative or positive outcomes without stomping off in a huff, and to play a game with a level playing field between the adults and children... and at the level we are talking about, if there is a meaningful choice at all, then the child, or perhaps rather toddler, will simply lose.

If he's simply a false positive on the crank detector because it turns out that everyone else is actually wrong about this historical event then he'd have to demonstrate that the cost of false positives outweigh the good to effect a change, not just go in a huff because his pet subject isn't presented in the way he would like in Wikipedia.

Huff definitions

noun

a state of irritation or annoyance

See also: miff

verb

inhale recreational drugs; "The addict was snorting cocaine almost every day"; "the kids were huffing glue"

See also: snort

verb

blow hard and loudly; "he huffed and puffed as he made his way up the mountain"

See also: puff chuff