[ US /ˈwɑft/ ]
[ UK /wˈɑːft/ ]
VERB
  1. blow gently
    A breeze wafted through the door
  2. be driven or carried along, as by the air
    Sounds wafted into the room
NOUN
  1. a long flag; often tapering
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How To Use waft In A Sentence

  • A stomach-teasing aroma of stewed food was in the air, and the thrumming of African bass guitar wafted through the open window.
  • Sounds wafted into the room
  • Rare cinquefoil bloom just inches from the path and marsh grasses waft in the breeze.
  • As a result, the nexus of America's dairy industry is shifting to such places as New Mexico and Idaho with cheap land and fewer people to complain about the smells wafting from a 5,000-cow dairy farm.
  • There is a little discreet wafting of programmes. Times, Sunday Times
  • He sighed, noting then the odors wafting in from the kitchen.
  • Hot, sulfurous gases waft from vents in the earth, kill trees, drive away wildlife, and sometimes threaten people's lives.
  • When the news was wafted to his father's factory, all his colleagues dodged him as if they were avoiding a deadly plague.
  • With favoring winds it is wafted past the site of the fabulous islands of Atlantis and the Hesperides, makes the periplus of Hanno, and, floating by Ternate and Tidore and the mouth of the Walden
  • It promises to produce everything from the waft of freshly baked chocolate cookies to percolating coffee over a personal computer.
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