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

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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.
He had another two hours before he had to leave, and the smell of pepperoni, black olives, green peppers and extra cheese wafting out from Simon's office was just too much to take.
On windy days, the smoke was wafted so that signals became garbled and confusing.
I sank into it and smelt the stale air wafting up from the sheet. The Sun
He used to sort of waft around and had this grin on his face. Times, Sunday Times
Even for those who did not grow up with it, there is something therapeutic about the activity involved - the alluring aromas wafting from the oven, and the comforting taste of freshly baked cakes or buns.
His bedroom was above the kitchen and when his grandmother cooked blanquette de veau for Sunday lunch, the aromas would waft upstairs. Cookery masterclass: Alain Ducasse
Simply stand there wafting an item backwards and forwards while kicking the machine and shouting mild expletives. Times, Sunday Times
Gingerly I descended and paused, as a waft of cool air freshened my brow.
The sweet smell of incense wafted in the evening wind.
Felled by the ward of his intransigence, levelled and laid flat, sword brandished in denial – sword wafting words uttered emphatically in a trial of words by words, falling for the trap of his own rhetorical thirst, falling into the gap between those who run first and those who carp and cry in the pack – an empty husk cracked and ablated, an old fool trashed. Archive 2007-04-01
That turned out to be fanciful thinking as instead I found myself in a warm and cheerful place with assistants hard at work and a kettle on the boil, and if there was a funny smell it was, Polly assured me, just her lamb stew at lunch, not the waft of an odorous beast she'd flayed. Kisa Lala: Sculpting Corpses: A Conversation With Taxidermy Artist Polly Morgan
Inside, smoke wafted from cheap candles, polluting the room with a slight grey haze.
The bowler bowled, the batsman, instead of backing further away, wafted at the ball, which looped up towards mid-off, who, miraculously, caught it. Why Pakistan's poor slip catching is itself catching
I have walked London streets for twelve and fifteen hours together without even a thought of saving my legs or my time, by paying for waftage. The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories
A gentle breeze wafted the scent of roses in through the open window.
A few hours later, an elderly man wakes his wife up with the aroma wafting from their weathered percolator.
The sweep up to the front of the $300-a-night hotel is rich with wafts of untreated river water.
In many of the gouaches and watercolors in particular, the images have completely wafted away into an airy assemblage of ethereal tints and quick, happy touches.
The sweet melody of the practicing orchestra wafted over us.
A gentle breeze wafted the scent of roses in through the open window.
The scent of the flowers was wafted along by the breeze.
A breeze wafted the scent towards us.
Hot, sulfurous gases waft from vents in the earth, kill trees, drive away wildlife, and sometimes threaten people's lives.
Aromatic scents of eucalypts and heath plants wafted up from the plains.
The strange smell of smoke wafted up her nostrils and she sneezed.
A heady scent of newly mown hay and honeysuckle wafted in through the open window. Times, Sunday Times
Michel Roux was born above his grandfather's charcuterie in Charolles in 1941 and, from an early age, he learnt to tell what day of the week it was by the smell wafting up the stairs.
The restaurant had worked hard to conjure up vivid images of Thailand in every detail from the artwork and carvings adorning the green and maroon walls to the incense wafting through the air.
I found a parrotfish hiding in a cave, debris from its diaphanous veil of mucus wafting back and forth with each slight swell.
Beyond that, though, it's all so chic and wafty, and, despite the recurrent use of the chamberpot, so clean. Times, Sunday Times
Addie sets his bowl on the table then moves about the apartment, his arms and legs and odors wafting like ribbons in the air, dancing cavatina to our choir bites of frosted oats and yellow moons, orange stars, green clovers. Chinchillas in the Air
The island basks in year-round subtropical sunshine, wafted by gentle Atlantic breezes.
The scent of climbing roses wafts through the window.
After taking a long draw from the cigarette he removed it from his lips and exhaled a cloud of smoke that wafted away in the wind.
Afterwards, lying in bed with the hot-water bottle cold at my feet, the weak odor of wetted leaves wafts under the door, the bathroom too far away from the safety of the bedroom. Bolt the door
And what could be more wonderful at this time of year than the glorious sweet waft of baking coming from the kitchen?
Flying into this Himalayan Shangri-La, I was immediately struck by the world's highest unclimbed mountain, the exquisite temples perched precariously on cliffs, the friendly and handsome people adorned in traditional silk attire, and a healthy dose of wafting incense and chanting mantras. Chip Conley: The Happiest Place on the Planet?
He was sitting in a traffic queue on York's eastern outskirts when the familiar sound of sirens wafted through the air.
Here the sweet, thick smell of paco wafts out of almost every shack and from every street corner. Times, Sunday Times
What I do know is that it's very difficult to pal around with the Muse when kids ask for snacks, the house is adrift in strewn toys, and the theme song from Arthur wafts through the air yet again. January 2007
Alternatively, smoke from burning moxa can be wafted over the painful area of the body using a smoke box.
Certain parts of Shanghai are already fairly malodorous, and as the temperature rises in the coming months, our noses are already set to be treated to more whiffy wafts.
It drifted with them at the will of the winds and the waves, night and day a great while, till their victual was spent and they saw themselves shent and were reduced to extreme hunger and thirst and exhaustion, when behold, suddenly they sighted an island from afar and the breezes wafted them on, till they came thither. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Priests chanted prayers and read from sacred texts as incense wafted from the corners of the temple.
Thus even a not-entirely-great movie like City by the Sea feels like wafts of fresh air.
Soft grasses and wafting perennials are enchanting in a meadow but can look insignificant against the architecture of a house. Times, Sunday Times
His voice wafted over the crowd as sonorously as ever.
Beyond that, though, it's all so chic and wafty, and, despite the recurrent use of the chamberpot, so clean. Times, Sunday Times
A scent of honey wafted up from the hives.
The tropical scent of frangipani and incense wafts throughout the indoor/outdoor living room surrounded by verdant rice paddy fields. Chip Conley: What's Your Daily Offering?
The aroma of stinky tofu wafted around me as I walked past the vendor towards the young man who sells the flat pancakes which are baked on the inside wall of a drum-shaped oven.
Don't be surprised if a catwalk show of models - clad in G-strings and bandeau tops - wafts past your table as you finish your starter.
Alternatively, smoke from burning moxa can be wafted over the painful area of the body using a smoke box.
Put it on a motorway and you could happily sit behind the wheel and watch the miles waft past.
That was just about bearable, but then they started spraying the table-tops with chemical cleaners, the thin mist wafting over onto our plates and up our noses.
The huge figure settled itself onto the divan next to Ramses, who wrinkled his nose involuntarily as a wave of patchouli wafted round him. HE SHALL THUNDER IN THE SKY
It's long and light, smart without looking too gussied up and just wafty enough. Times, Sunday Times
York grabbed the cup with a shaky hand, popping the plastic top off, condensed steam on the inside edge before it all wafted out into York's face.
A bunch of roughnecks with feather-cut hair and Indian canoes was loitering by the river bank, smoke still wafting from the barrel of their gun.
With that, he starts to do a strutting chicken walk, wafting his arms about and clucking and squawking to himself.
It will be far less easy to waft away a nicotine addiction. The Sun
The cool breeze that wafts across the lush green valley is as smooth as silk.
It is an ambassador, opening the borders of the Canuck kitchen, and wafting forth the knowledge of other such national delights as maple syrup, tourtiere, and beaver tails.
It seemed a glow to him, a warm and trailing vapor, ever beyond his reaching, though sometimes he was rewarded by catching at shreds of it and weaving them into phrases that echoed in his brain with haunting notes or drifted across his vision in misty wafture of unseen beauty. Chapter 11
He tried to stamp it out and friends were trying to waft it out.
I can almost feel the self-loathing wafting out of some of the hastily scribbled missives that arrive at this time of year. Times, Sunday Times
The other sensation Rollses are famous for is called, inelegantly, waftability: a sensation of effortless power, an inimitable feeling of gaining, rising, frictionless, mechanically multiplied self-determination as the driver buries a right foot into the shearing wool carpet. The Face of Green?
I hated the voice from behind me, that cut through the wondrous strains of music being wafted to us in that green and prosperous neighbourhood through powerful speakers.
His harmonies waft a pungent perfume all their own, and invite you into an imaginative, mercurial world unique in music history. Times, Sunday Times
What's that scent wafting above the swimming pool? The Sun
By early May the seeds of the dandelions will have been wafted away on breezes and will have deposited themselves in people's gardens - alas.
A faint aroma of the hot earth cooled by the first rains wafted in and filled the room with its delicate fragrance.
Suddenly the French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy wafted in, dressed in black and trailing a cloud of cologne and his mistress, Daphne Guinness, who was wearing a revealing black cat suit and heelless Alexander McQueen platform shoes... Beth Arnold: Letter From Paris: The Face of Dominique Strauss-Kahn
She looks like many of the other fashionistas wafting around the building and is strikingly pretty. Times, Sunday Times
Smoke wafts in pungent plumes but fans of his cuisine dig in with gusto, claiming that the food ‘makes men men’.
A breeze wafted through the door
She stepped into the bathroom, still damp from the steam of the hot shower, and a waft of rose scent filled her nostrils.
Rumor has it he's caught the scent of a new tax wafting its way up from New Zealand where they tax flatulent sheep, supposedly a contributor to ‘global warming.’
William Shakespeare. (15641616) (continued) 1294With an angry wafture of your hand, Quotations
The night breeze is gently wafting through the linen curtains in the temple resting at the apex of the ziggurat. Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » CarsonArtist’s Review Forum
She had that same aura of persistent irritation that wafts on the breeze ahead of wandering herds of Jehovah's Witnesses.
The dangerous scent of oiled leather wafted from the boots when he examined them. A Good Place for Graves « A Fly in Amber
Cooking smells wafted up from downstairs.
A gentle breeze wafted the scent of roses in through the open window.
I do feel that if you decide not to smoke, you shouldn't have the smelly fumes wafting over from someone who does.
The appetizing aroma of waffles and bacon wafted up from the kitchen down the small stairwell of their split-level house.
Jamaica, and Cuba, inhaled the gales wafted from the orangeries; but not for a moment would I compare either with the exquisite aromatic odors from a coffee plantation in full blow, when the hill-side -- covered over with regular rows of the tree-like shrub, with their millions of jessamine-like flowers -- showers down upon you, as you ride up between the plants, a perfume of the most delicately delicious description. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
The cars smoked round the circuit with a howl that wafted from the far side of the former wartime airfield like a squadron of Spitfires taking off. Times, Sunday Times
Today the city is illuminated softly from behind grey clouds wafted inland from the Irish Sea and massing menacingly to the north.
An inviting smell of coffee wafted into the room.
It's funny how those thoughts kind of waft into your head. Benjamin Zander on music and passion
- If Apple's Macbook Air is the poster-child for "form-over-function," and Lenovo's X300 its utilitarian cousin, Samsung's X360 falls somewhere in between on the 13. 3-inch wafter-thin ultraportable family tree, serving as another solid, though somewhat underwhelming choice according to TrustedReviews 'full write-up. Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
All the while, the bagel shop below the doctor's office was wafting up some lovely, mouth-watering smells.
For example, many of the ciders we've sampled have a waft of boysenberry and the distinct spicy aroma of cumin.
There is a little discreet wafting of programmes. Times, Sunday Times
The waves wafted the boat to the shore.
A faint smell of cabbage wafts from the flat next door.
Above, the sky would be of a cold blue colour, save for a fringe of flame-coloured streaks on the horizon that kept turning ever paler and paler; and when the moon had come out there would be wafted through the limpid air the sounds of a frightened bird fluttering, of a bulrush rubbing against its fellows in the gentle breeze, and of a fish rising with a splash. Poor Folk
As often as not I went along, for after thirty years of travelling rough I didn't mind being wafted about in style, from steamer stateroom to hotel Pullman, and stopping at the best pubs on the way; another reason was that I didn't trust the little trollop an inch, for Elspeth at fifty was every bit as beddable as she'd been at sixteen, and had lost none of her ardour. Isabelle
And although their songs are often About Stuff, U2 patented this stubbornly pervasive tone of wafty, inchoate, non-specific, quasi-spiritual yearning that has come to typify big stadium acts. Are U2 bad for Glastonbury?
The scent of wildflowers wafts through the air.
With the palm of your hand facing upwards, and holding a tidbit between your first three fingers and thumb, 'waft' the tidbit in front of the dog's nose, then straight up about three inches directly above his nose, and hold it there. EzineArticles
You can all too easily imagine him in a smoking jacket, wafting a martini about and drawling, ‘Hello, ladies’.
A heady scent of newly mown hay and honeysuckle wafted in through the open window. Times, Sunday Times
A waft of air wouldn't work in this weather. The Sun
It is not unknown for the strains of classical music to waft across the court. Times, Sunday Times
Real smoke wafted the sea trout. Times, Sunday Times
As soon as we entered the shop I felt a waft of a wonderful aroma.
I had only a glimpse of him, but several times felt the cool wafture of his silent wings. Lilith, a romance
No natural light ever pierces these dark recesses of my flat, neither does the soft spring breeze ever waft gently through their becalmed atmosphere.
As Bella Vista's shovelers work into the late-afternoon twilight, the faint chiming of church bells wafts over from the nearby town center.
The cooking smell wafted along the hall.
The sound of their voices wafted across the lake to us.
So there I sat happy and sleepy on their comfy sofa letting the conversation and laughter waft over me.
When you enter a room, the trees and lakes on the walls appear to be wafting in a breeze. Times, Sunday Times
Salaman bowed and went his way, and I took up a palm-leaf fan, and began to use it, not as a wafter of cool wind, but as a screen to hide my face when I spoke to Dost, and from behind which I could keep an eye on the tents, and see when any one was coming. Gil the Gunner The Youngest Officer in the East
In total the pair had put on 156 runs for the second wicket, snuffing out New Zealand's already wafter thin hopes of winning the Test and preventing the tourists winning their first series in New Zealand since 1968. Channel NewsAsia Front Page News
The wafting incense smell made my head go drifty.
In all copious amounts of alcohol are consumed and the pungent smell of marijuana wafts through the air.
He looks into the camera as he exhales, the smoke wafting out of his mouth toward the finches.
Some carbon tetrachloride wafts up from inside landfills, says Kenneth Mitchell, chief of the EPA's air toxics program in its Southeast regional office in Atlanta. Toxic 'carbon tet' lingers in air near schools
People were wafting their arms to swat the bugs but it did no good because they kept coming in hordes.
The delicious smell of a venison roast wafted from the oven. A Mexico mountain feast
She flipped her hair over her shoulder and he could smell the sweet scent of strawberries wafting up from it.
Surely it is the line which describes the ghosts, staying for waftage on the banks of the river, and stretching out their hands in passionate desire to the further shore: Romance Two Lectures
A waft of wind hit me, taking me back into the reality around me.
Cars flew the national flag as music wafted from hundreds of parties around the city. Times, Sunday Times
A gentle breeze wafted the scent of roses in through the open window.
The fallout is the delicious smell of burgers and soggy onions that wafts tantalisingly across a crowd estimated at 42,000 by Jakki.
The nutty, vaguely familiar taste of mustard seed and the earthy smell of curry leaves waft from the fritter, but vada pav approaches perfection because it mingles potent flavors with so many comforting textures: squooshy bread, creamy and slightly lumpy mashed potato and a hint of crunch from the batter. Pow, Right in the Fritter
Snow flurries wafted in Saturday afternoon, mixing with the blowing sand and occasionally giving the Mall the look of winter tundra.
And when it's happened, you can smell it in the air, its very sweet, fishy smell sort of that just wafts across the lagoon.
It was a mass of bladdery seaweed that the returning tide was wafting slowly to the shore. For the term of his natural life
Oh, nothing fancy for these simple working folk, but a family gathered around the table together over a hot meal, work put aside, worries forgotten; just an everyday lunch shared, the air filled with succulent odors wafting from a home-cooked, from-scratch pot au feu or blanquette simmering on the stove, laughter and conversation. Jamie Schler: A Table, Les Enfants! Dinner Is Served!
She was wearing a long red dressing gown with a wafting white feather collar.
A slight breeze rose, wafting the heavy scent of flowers past her.
But now I smell wafts of lovely roast drifting from the kitchen.
This meant the scent would waft through the room only when the light was on. Going For It!: How to Succeed As an Entrepreneur
The pilgrims 'voices come drifting more and more dyingly, the breeze wafts sounds of church-bells. The Wagnerian Romances
Tummel -- for he used to build in the cliffs of Ben-Brackie, and if he has shifted his eyrie, a few minutes 'waftage will bear him to Cairn-Gower. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2
Here I am, asprawl upon one of those cheap couches they send to you in two or three boxes for self-assembly; they are unstable and a carcinogenic perfume wafts from the cushions.
If we have enjoyed the moonlight in pleasant scenes, in happy hours, with friends that we loved, – though the sight of it may not always make us directly remember them, yet it brings with it a waft from the feeling of the old times, – sweet as long as life lasts! The Wide, Wide World
None of that kaleidoscope - coloured rice; here it's a calm soft beige, scented with fresh green chilli and cinnamon, wafting the distinctive perfume unique to true Indian basmati rice.
The whitish clouds wafted slowly down the street.
Through the windows wafts the smell of tortillas being baked in the terracotta beehive ovens as she serves me coffee grown from her own beans and talks about her never-ending wonder and curiosity for Mexico.
The comparatively open spaces made for a relaxed atmosphere as a very laid-back audience stretched out in the warm weather to enjoy the sounds wafting over from the main stage.
Going closer to this dresser, I can smell feminine perfumes though there is a slight waft of male scent in the whole picture somewhere.
A breeze wafted the scent towards us.
The slaughterhouse stench wafted from the open window. Friday Freebie: An excerpt from THE SEVEN – Brian Keene
He used to sort of waft around and had this grin on his face. Times, Sunday Times
The refrigeration units hummed tonelessly in the gloom; icy air wafted out of the open compartments. NIGHT SISTERS
The huge figure settled itself onto the divan next to Ramses, who wrinkled his nose involuntarily as a wave of patchouli wafted round him. HE SHALL THUNDER IN THE SKY
Pen thy gates a 6 Libanus, andletfyredeuoure thy rf XcruTalcm is ccders. f Howie thou firre tree, becaufc the ceder is ca n c d Libx - fallen, bccaufe the magnifical are wafted: howle ye okes of Ba - mis, I/**. The Holie Bible : faithfully translated into English, out of the authentical Latin. Diligently conferred with the Hebrew, Greeke, and other editions in divers languages ...
Clearly this was blatant misselling for in later years, science became a lot more difficult; a subject that sorted out those who understood how to make good drugs from those who took them and went off to Economics and let the J-curve waft past them in a weedy haze. Kissing: The purest art of all
The summer nights breeze wafted through the place stirring the many silk hangings, I could still smell the beautiful scents of roses and moonflowers upon the breeze.
I also must know the wind direction because this time of year, the barnyard has an extra pungent, wettish aroma that wafts over to the house with an easterly breeze. Archive 2009-03-01
Many people think the ultimate pleasure is a vacation in Hawaii - sacking out on a waterbed, a cool breeze wafting through the window, a tall drink, every muscle in your body relaxed.
A chorus of fairies wafts above the stage, fluttering their diaphanous wings.
All the lights on, the sound of flirtatious laughter and silly pop songs and the wafting scent of tomato and garlic. Times, Sunday Times
He went to work with a certain energy: he folded the red and yellow square cornerwise; he whipped it open with a waft: again he folded it in narrower compass: he made of it a handsome band. Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
I was hauling in the foresheet and belaying when a sudden waft of fragrance fetched me upright, with head thrown back and nostrils inhaling the breeze. Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756
The Kyrie-Christe eleison, the Sanctus and the Agnus Dei are repeated three times in the course of a Low Mass and in addition, in the course of a High Mass, the censer is swung three times to waft incense over altar, servers and people.
However this vaft fum, which is probably under the truth, may have been mifapplied, or wafted, yet every one, who received his proportion of it, as alms, was exempted from the tax on chargeable houfes, and muft hav«. confequently fwelled the number of cottagers. An Estimate of the Comparative Strength of Great Britain, During the Present and Four Preceding ...
The alcove was warm and smells of overheated fat wafted in from the kitchen. CORMORANT
At the close of the third wafture, a roar as of thunder broke and rolled about the place, making the huge hall tremble, and the windows rattle and shake fearfully. St. George and St. Michael Volume II
Finally, you're going to need some pretty slippers for wafting about the honeymoon suite. Times, Sunday Times
A sickly smell wafted through the house. The Sun
He gazed out at the Golden Gate Bridge when he became aware of a scent that he had not smelled in a very long time: The sweet smell of new-mown grass wafting over on a breeze from San Francisco. Kate Kelly: Autobiography of Former Alcatraz Inmate Tells Interesting Story
The bubble maker is like a sword that you waft in the air.
Soft grasses and wafting perennials are enchanting in a meadow but can look insignificant against the architecture of a house. Times, Sunday Times
Stygian Banks staying for waftage, 'I melt into the air with a voluptuousness so delicate that I am content to be alone. The Enjoyment of Art
The dim lights and subdued strains of music wafted across the hall, giving a palliative effect.
October 19, 2009 at 3:18 pm well, if the farghing latch won’t take……….ya gotta thunk it…..thunk it good echos of Devo waft through the ether Your - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
What's that scent wafting above the swimming pool? The Sun
But I like to be at peace with my neighbours, and waft them "penillion" instead of dealing the "cleddyfal" of Llewellyn. ' The Amazing Marriage — Complete
He steadied himself with one hand on the wall as he pissed, the extended duration made even less welcome by the whiffs of alsatian keech that kept wafting up and threatening to make him gag. A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away
A breeze wafted the scent towards us.
These were full of the last of the foxgloves and the sickly, overpowering waft of the mysterious stinkhorn fungus. How to get back to nature when camping
Perhaps it is the influence of T20 cricket but few these days seem to have the patience to resist wafting at deliveries swerving away from them. The Sun
I slowed my step as I walked by, the smell of their cookout wafting through the air, pulling heavily on my hungry stomach.
There was a large pit in the center of the cave, smoke still wafted from the embers. The Lady and the Dragon « A Fly in Amber
The appetizing aroma of waffles and bacon wafted up from the kitchen down the small stairwell of their split-level house.
Everyone laughed and chatted as they passed the dishes, a soft breeze from the ocean wafting up the mountainside.
The heat brings out the scents; not just the crambe, but the dry undertang of artemisias and southernwood, and the bold, voluptuous wafts from lilies, roses and nicotiana.
The scent of the flowers was wafted along by the breeze.
In the gathering evening, smoke wafted into the big combi.
AN OAP has complained she is getting high on crack cocaine fumes wafting into her flat. The Sun
Here, Stewart's vocals hang in hazy suspensions of wafting guitars, piercing chimes, subliminal drones, and ornately wrought percussion.
A device called an olfactometer wafted the odours of each participant towards the mosquitoes.
What's an English summer without lazy days on a lawn with the gentle sound of cricket commentary wafting on the breeze? Times, Sunday Times

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