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get a whiff

VERB
  1. smell strongly and intensely

How To Use get a whiff In A Sentence

  • You get a whiff of that fluid too, every time you pick up your clothes from the cleaners.
  • Nor can you presently pass the beerhouse with its brighter gas and its queer, screening windows, nor get a whiff of foul air and foul language from its door, nor see the crumpled furtive figure — some rascal child — that slinks past us down the steps. In the Days of the Comet
  • Or get a whiff of basil, roses, grapes, mango or lemons - they all contain a compound called linalool, whose scent helps induce calm. Chron.com Chronicle
  • In Warheads, while demonstrating irritant-gas, a mercenary trainer tells the film team: ‘The stink is so strong, you'll get a whiff of it too’.
  • I get a whiff of it when I appear on television and see employees of major networks dressed in casual slacks and sport shirts with no ties.
  • I already have my gas mask out but not before I get a whiff of the smoke.
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