1 When it was free of the leather walls it began to chuff .
2 A motor-launch chuff - chuffed out from the quay, flying the yellow flag.
3 Then a mechanical groan, and a chuff of compressed air.
4 A message received loud and clear through the chatter and chuff droning through my instruments.
5 SORDIDO, a wretched hob-nailed chuff , whose recreation is reading of almanacks; and felicity, foul weather.
6 The air brakes let go with a chuff and we were rolling, slow but sure.
7 Every chuff that inhales it will be properly soused.
8 It pulled away in a chuff of blue exhaust.
9 The image of the inventor is of someone who's completely off his chuff , laments Trevor Baylis.
10 As it pulled up, he raised his voice to be heard over the chuff of the air-brakes.
11 A Peter Pan bus rolled up next to the cab and stopped with a chuff of airbrakes.
12 There was a chuff of compressed air, and suddenly a dart was sticking out of Hoppy's back.
13 The dog's answering chuff seemed noncommittal.
14 The thing began to chuff and grunt and to shake a little, at which Jonathan kicked it fiercely lower down.
15 The engine kicked alive with a loud chuff and black puffs from the tailpipe scudded low across the snowy yard.
16 Then came the sound of a train slowing down in the station, and directly the quick ' chuff - chuff - chuff ' of its drawing out.
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