How To Use Whiff In A Sentence

Several other recent transfers have been accompanied by a strong whiff of controversy.
The servants disappeared as if they were whiffs of smoke blown away by the wind.
So avoiding the whiff of scandal enveloping me back home, let me introduce you to the rest of my competitors.
Over the course of the year, he's almost hit on the head by a sparrowhawk, gets a whiff of "bad badger breath" when three cubs cannon into his lap, and watches two stoats massacre a screaming leveret, their normally creamy bibs "the colour of a slaughterman's apron". A Year in the Woods: The Diary of a Forest Ranger by Colin Elford
Most would agree that the spuds would carry the faint whiff of moral complicity. Times, Sunday Times

I knew I caught a whiff of something flammable in the office air Friday afternoon when a cacophony of squawking arose from a neighboring borough of Cubeville.
There's a distinct whiff of anthropological research in the respectful view of men in pubs and stoking furnaces. Times, Sunday Times
In Liverpool there is a sulphurous whiff of rebellion - bitter talk, alarming to some, of direct action.
During shooting there was all occasional whiff of smoke at the rear of the cylinder and examination of the fired cases found them covered with soot from end to end.
I leaned over him and caught a whiff of his subtle cologne.
While Henry may have failed to taste true European glory with Leeds, he at least had a whiff of it, he tells pals.
His mouth always held a pipe, which he smoked in short, brisk whiffs, as though expecting to be interrupted at any moment by an iceberg. Where the Blue Begins
The puppets are slightly skew whiff, their movements endearingly jerky, but this only serves to add to the quirky appeal of the film. Times, Sunday Times
He was a storehouse of anecdotes, too young to detect the whiff of embellishment clinging to them. AMAGANSETT
I avoid standing too close to colleagues in case they catch a whiff. The Sun
The whiff of danger filled her with excitement.
Plus an unpleasant whiff of effluent as in the previous week's remorseless attacks on Cherie Blair, not for anything she's said or done but for the way she looks.
This show, held in cavernous, candelabra-strewn space that had a whiff of ruined empire, had plenty of strong, practical pieces: impeccably cut overcoats, running the gamut from deepest navy and ashiest gray to the purest white with black trimming; three-piece suits tailored with Browne's signature off-kilter proportions, and a pair of gray corduroy pants strewn with white snowflakes. Esquire.com Article Feed
Get close enough to see its pale and dusty blue bloom and you get a lovely whiff of the Mediterranean.
For all the whiff of street danger, this is a notably wussy, non-violent picture.
But the whiff of being a "carpetbagger" - an insulting term for candidates with no local connections who are parachuted into winnable seats - persists. BBC News - Home
He semaphores his designerlyness by wearing flouncy shirts and exuding a faint whiff of camp.
The resultant sheitels might be hard, shiny and unpersuasive, but they were reassuringly free from the whiff of idolatry. The Times Literary Supplement
You get a whiff of that fluid too, every time you pick up your clothes from the cleaners.
A civil war in Sri Lanka, extending nowhere else, untainted on either side by even a whiff of Islamism -- a war in which a minority people, slaughtered mercilessly for decades, have come to identify (at least to some extent) with a brutal counterforce called the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, is now effortlessly connected to 9/11. Archive 2009-04-01
Something in her gut gave a sharp tug when she caught a whiff of his cologne.
As we were driving down these terrible, lumpy, unlit streets we were constantly catching whiffs of different smells.
With tiny whines and thin whimperings, with whiffs and whuffs and growly sorts of noises down in his throat, he would try to tell her somewhat of his tale. CHAPTER XXII
Floating above all the ripe red berries is a whiff of wood smoke. Times, Sunday Times
It kicks upwards like; it's kicking my nose all skewwhiff. Outback Marriage, an : a story of Australian life
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There is a distinct whiff of tobacco in his office. Times, Sunday Times
With nearly 700 plate appearances in 2000, Sweeney whiffed just 67 times and had more walks than strikeouts for the second consecutive season.
Of fear mingled with the high whiff of disinfectants, of chloride and creosote. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
He could've swore he even caught a whiff of musky cologne.
With my first step, I sank up to my waist and got a good whiff of the gym-bag-from-hell odor that any marsh emits in summertime when disturbed. A Sportman's Life: A Sinking Feeling
A few whiffs of this gas and she'll fall a sleep.
A whiff of perfume from the laurustinus in the drive came back, the scent of hay, and with it the sound of the mowing-machine going over the lawn. A Prisoner in Fairyland
Tanya wrinkled her nose at a strong, harsh whiff of what seemed to be… alcohol?
The lovely title track has a whiff of Ellington in its carefully paced atmospherics, with discreet touches of celeste colouring the long shadows cast by Peplowski's doleful clarinet.
his wig was, as the British say, skew-whiff
I put one horse between the shafts and a horse on either side with whiffletrees, and so forth, so that they could all pull even on it.
The young people sniffed in advance the two dear, distinctive odours which, more than anything else, presented the scenes before them -- the soft, cowy-milky scent of the farm, the salt, sharp whiff of the brine. A College Girl
He caught a whiff of the stench of his own feet, and tossed the boots aside.
There is an awful whiff coming from the dustbin.
It's that first sly whiff of tobacco on the air, the steel-blue smoke slinking seductively across a shaft of light, the embers glowing brightly as a smoker draws in.
Although the three were not ideally attuned, they brought a gentle whiff of nostalgia to a season of high-keyed dance.
Tempting as it was to pass round the oatcakes and crack open a bottle of Burgundy there and then, its whiffy pong soon ruled out any chance of afternoon nibbles.
Perhaps the bouquets' sweet scent hides the whiff of hypocrisy. The Sun
His nose itched as he caught a whiff of her flowery perfume.
You've got your hat on skew-whiff.
But, these naysayers would argue, it is always just a whiff. Times, Sunday Times
But lately he'd been concealing this whiff with his favourite aftershave, Rampage.
It should also be noted that the base price of each Farm Wagon included whiffletrees, stay chains, wrench, neck yoke or tongue chains, but did not include a seat or a brake.
I caught the whiff of whisky on his breath.
I cracked my knuckles, ready to begin the day, caught a whiff of the soup and felt my stomach heave. Times, Sunday Times
As the train picked up speed, we caught the whiff of, well, a rest room in terrible need of cleaning.
As he approached from upwind, I caught a whiff of scent.
For some reason, many of his colleagues detect a whiff of opportunism about his repositioning. Times, Sunday Times
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.
Labour's Ovine & Bovine really should pay attentionto this in The Times - though I daresay they are somewhat distracted by the pungent whiff of the abattoir which must be assailing their collective nostrilsat the moment. A Painful Lesson From A Brussels Vet
After a few rousing choruses of ‘O Holy Night’ there'd be a rustling at the back of the room and the first whiffs of smoke filtered forward.
Reuben "Rooster" Cogburn is a shambling wreck of a man: a grizzled veteran of a few too many shootouts, he wears a black patch over one eye and has the unmistakable whiff of stale whiskey about him.
As I pulled the cakes out of the oven, I caught a whiff of heavenly nutmeg and knew I had a winner.
Herein lies the unmistakable whiff of a work in progress - and its corollary - the promise of further unputdownable Jamesian intrigue.
Something in her gut gave a sharp tug when she caught a whiff of his cologne.
Light and fruity aromas of soft gooseberry with a whiff of crème fraiche deliver zippy flavours of light gooseberry and lemon before a crisp and dry, slightly minerally finish.
The group of people there will almost certainly contain a number of men my age who are unshaven, whiffy, and wearing the same dirty tee shirt they slept in.
Turks, the people of these countries spit at every whiff; and they say that he who does not, will never be a hardy bouza drinker. Travels in Nubia
She wrinkled her nose as she caught a whiff of disinfectant.
There is a whiff of conspiracy in the air and it reeks pungently of Chardonnay glugging down the plug hole and just a dash of carpet-trampled kettle chips.
Ax and hammer handles, as well as wooden axles, whiffletrees, and ox yokes, are examples.
They passed by a bakery, and the pair caught a delicious whiff of freshly baked bread loaves laid out outside on a desk.
The horses munched their grain, stamped and whiffled, and filled the derelict tavern with the pungent scent of their droppings. Conqueror's Moon
When that was over, Lady B brought out a cigar box, and gave me a cigar, made of negrohead she said, which would quell an elephant in six whiffs. The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete
A whiff of fresh air cleared his head.
The strikeout numbers stayed low, with Barry never whiffing 70 times in a season.
The brand-new Midfield Terminal, opening this month, features the OraOxygen Spa where the jet-lagged can get a massage or belly up to the oxygen bar for a rejuvenating whiff.
It is this bodilessness in the Employer -- this very simple rudimentary whiffling communion the Employer has with his usually distinguished and accomplished Head Employee, which the Head Employee finds it hardest to bear. The Ghost in the White House Some suggestions as to how a hundred million people (who are supposed in a vague, helpless way to haunt the white house) can mak
It just makes you look like a hairier, whiffier, crumb-covered version of the old you. The Sun
She bent down to pick it up and instantly caught a whiff of what was in it.
The smell, however, lingered on for a while and despite the baking sunshine, at week's end there still was a whiff of unpleasantness in the air.
You don't expect to hear Ranyevskaya dismiss Lopakhin's plan to build holiday homes on the old cherry orchard as "rank garbage", nor Gaev describe the estate's potential saviour as "you whiffy crap-artist". The Cherry Orchard - review
The thirty-staired Seats, all round our Amphitheatre, get instantaneously slated with mere umbrellas, fallacious when so thick set: our antique Cassolettes become Water-pots; their incense-smoke gone hissing, in a whiff of muddy vapour. The French Revolution
Not out of snobbery, but to protect them from the whiff of a stinking bishop. Times, Sunday Times
He learned to make axe-handles, whiffletrees, neck-yokes and crude sleds.
In danger of losing the whiff of exclusivity, haute couture is relying on the power of the lens to preserve the magic that put Christian Dior's name up in lights more than 50 years ago
This was the season when I'd once again set off across the stubbly fields to school, the sky infused with a pumpkin light, and the first whiff of banger smoke on the air.
York council's plan to change the rubbish collection from weekly to fortnightly has caused a right stink, as one whiff of our letters pages confirms.
Friends don't give you the old whiffy bit of fish from the fridge. Times, Sunday Times
Those exposed to the whiff of rotten eggs had the scariest. The Sun
There's a slight whiff of making the best of what we can get and of what we can afford. Times, Sunday Times
Loudness was comedy to him, and his howl was whiffy with alcohol. Beard
Perhaps the bouquets' sweet scent hides the whiff of hypocrisy. The Sun
She climbed in the window with ease and as she approached the stairs she caught a whiff of perfume not belonging to Mrs. Chavez.
Most would agree that the spuds would carry the faint whiff of moral complicity. Times, Sunday Times
Everyone knows there's a middle ground but, when the whiff of a word like "bookless" floats about, no one ever seems to be standing on it. The New Yorker
[T] aken as a whole, cogent piece of work, Paris makes an underwhelming survey of the state of the art house - nothing here even whiffs at the rarified abjection found in Antonioni's segment in 1953's similarly conceived, Rome-set L'Amore in citta," writes Nick Pinkerton at indieWIRE. GreenCine Daily: Paris je t'aime.
In it, the concluding hemistich of the tanka is left off, and it is just in his hemistich that the meaning of the poem is brought out, so that the hokku is a mere essence, a whiff of an idea to be created in full by the hearer. Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan
A few whiffs of the raw , strong scent of phlox invigorated her.
There's a distinct whiff of anthropological research in the respectful view of men in pubs and stoking furnaces. Times, Sunday Times
Lola swung across the stone-flagged hall towards the skewwhiff stairs. TICKLED PINK
A walk along Whiffen Spit, the sandbar that curls around Sooke Harbour, turns up harlequin ducks, oystercatchers, plovers, and, if you're lucky, orca sightings.
I'm for holding a peace talk, as the Injuns say, d-- n 'em, burying the axe, and taking a whiff or two at the kinnikinick of friendship. Nick of the Woods
A specialized vocabulary described parts of harness fittings such as whiffletrees, reins, breechings, traces, collars, hames and pole straps.
What we called chaat: fresh, spicy, quick bites, with a whiff of exhaust from the bus lurching by. NPR Topics: News
As she walked past, I caught a whiff of her perfume.
The mucus inside the male elephant's trunk helps deliver a concentrated whiff of the seductive scent.
It was a lightning revolt with a whiff of the Arab Spring about it, in that the anger was directed at the power of an elderly dynast and his closest associates. Over more than three decades, no one dared question the perversion of politics by and for Rupert Murdoch | Henry Porter
Accurately lining up these factors not only provides a power boost but also cranks a ball to wherever you decide with your directional swing; otherwise, you'll whiff on a pitch or pop a ball up to a waiting defender.
The scent of humans overwhelmed his nostrils as it took a deep whiff of the air with delight.
The whiffs of kinkiness were integral to the work's popularity.
The composition starts with a very short-lived whiff of something freshly floral the "night-blooming wildflowers from the Greek isles" perhaps. Archive 2008-08-01
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I can hardly look at them without being overwhelmed with a haze of Voodoo Chile, the whiff of patchouli oil, flashes of free festivals and boating on the River Avon.
Like the face made when catching a whiff of what a bear might leave in the woods. The Sun
I caught a whiff of her hair and the flowery scent made my heart pound faster.
Of fear mingled with the high whiff of disinfectants, of chloride and creosote. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
But the whiff of hypocrisy is inescapable. Times, Sunday Times
Have you caught a whiff of the carpets around airport security scanners? Times, Sunday Times
They further confused the tone of a piece that had about it the whiff of 1970s radical agitprop.
Such things have a faint whiff of murder. Times, Sunday Times
So there may not always be a whiff of smoke to alert the investigators.
But even the most unrevised of my old friends have caught a whiff of the new times. Times, Sunday Times
Spidery legs, rat eyes, whiffling whiskers: an unearthed hedgehog, part of the general exodus due to building developments nearby.
Made by the Chilean outpost of the famous French firm, Baron Philippe de Rothschild, this bottling is loaded with plummy fruit flavors accented with a whiff of green peppercorns. Wine Blogging Wednesday
It was a glorious autumnal day - the sun was shining, not a cloud in the sky and only the slightest whiff of a breeze.
With the amadou he lighted up, and after about a dozen whiffs his eyes closed, his pipe escaped from his fingers, and he fell asleep. Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon
There is a whiff of conspiracy in the air and it reeks pungently of Chardonnay glugging down the plug hole and just a dash of carpet-trampled kettle chips.
Walking along a corridor in the office, I pass a member of our IT support team and I am struck by the hugely unpleasant whiff of undeodorised oxter.
Last night on the evening air a faint whiff of garbage floated down the street making the heat even more unbearable.
Profumo is Italian for scent, which gives the fallen political star a whiff of Ben Jonson: he caught the heady intoxication of cheap perfume one summer’s night, and, though he swapped his evening dress for a hair shirt, he understood the smell could never be washed out. Making the Best of a Sticky Wicket
Aromatic floral whiffs of soft ripe apricot can't hide drier fruit flavours that have an almost fino sherry slant with a mild green olive and salty tang on the finish.
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
The forthcoming civil disobedience will be non-violent, organisers stress, but the whiff of brutalism conjures up a world where no such caveat is feasible.
He whiffled it savagely and then pointed it at someone in the crowd. Death of a Fool
There was the whiff of a tumbrel depositing yet another victim before the guillotine in the Place de la Concorde. Welcome to the Show
So her campaign has been trying what it calls a proactive effort to fix problems with committee reports it filed with the State Board of Elections, performing a voluntary audit of her campaign finances and forfeiting donations that had a whiff of potential illegality. TheSunNews.com: Local
He detected more than a whiff of grown-up condescension in it. BEHINDLINGS
There was a whiff of that artificial, condescending little-ladyism that is sort of like the cockroach and the spiky horsetail plant, those life forms that have defied the odds and survived intact since remotest prehistoric times, while seemingly hardier creatures were going extinct right and left. Did She Take The Hill?
But where's the whiff of danger, the thrill of the unknown?
You can almost hear the organ playing devotional music in the background, and detect the faintest whiff of incense on the breeze.
This is all apropos of the fact that I just turned the corner into my office and suddenly got a strong whiff of yellow cake and brown custard.
Such things have a faint whiff of murder. Times, Sunday Times
She caught a whiff of alcohol on him as he passed her to throw himself on her couch.
Apparently it is a heady mix of desperation with underlying scents of money and old rope topped off with the faint whiff of sanctimonious windbaggery.
If Replica occasionally drifts – literally – too close to the whiffy bongs and flotation tanks of 90s chillout, it's never predictable, and is best experienced in a continuous sitting, when Up's raindrop-like falling pianos and Submersible's game of spot-the-sample form a mostly engrossing journey into sound. Oneohtrix Point Never: Replica – review
He always retreated emotionally at the first whiff of conflict.
The disappearance of the whiff of chlorine that used to fill the ground floors of some houses may be another. Times, Sunday Times
So how come the odd passive whiff of cigarette smoke is so bad? The Sun
He explains that'the boiler is in the stables so you neither hear it nor smell a whiff of oil '. Times, Sunday Times
The clean, dry perfumes of newsprint, ink and decent analysis are replaced by the whiff of political poodles marking their territories.
A decade ago, videogaming could still be accurately characterised as the preserve of quiet, inward-looking and often fairly whiffy teenage boys with too much time on their hands.
Be prepared for men to follow you around, after just one whiff. The Sun
There is an awful whiff coming from the dustbin.
Like a former smoker at the first whiff of tobacco, I have become allergic to hot air. Times, Sunday Times
There was a definite whiff of something at the old ground yesterday. Times, Sunday Times
And there is always that specter of a whiff of smoke being sniffed in the exceedingly crowded theater.
Instead, all the attacks sounded like whiffs at a softball game.
Journalists caught a whiff of scandal and pursued the actress relentlessly.
For this reason it is easy to find discussions of whiffletrees, stone boats, ground hackies, and a rich variety of plow parts and types of broom, but it is impossible to find information about how regular people actually speak today.
There has always been a whiff of scandal about the finances of the company.
So how come the odd passive whiff of cigarette smoke is so bad? The Sun
During the first few months of pregnancy the slightest whiff of food cooking made my stomach turn.
In it, the concluding hemistich of the tanka is left off, and it is just in his hemistich that the meaning of the poem is brought out, so that the hokku is a mere essence, a whiff of an idea to be created in full by the hearer. Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan
The whiff of approbation dissipates only slowly upon her departure. CONFESSIONS OF AN UGLY STEPSISTER
At the same time, to clear his way, and the better to enable him to take a good mark, he gave James Batter a shove, that made him stoiter against the wall, and snacked the good new farthing tobacco-pipe, that James was taking his first whiff out of; crying, at the same blessed moment -- "Hold out o 'my road, ye long withered wabster. The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself
You gave him a whiff of power and it's turned him into a corrupt megalomaniac. ALASTAIR MCLEAN'S 'NIGHT WATCH'
These are stories where a god imposes skewwhiff random rules on people, and rewards them if they obey, and punishes them severely if they don't. ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
The loss to Slovakia in the prelims was a stunner, but the no-show in the battle with Canada during the quarterfinals was a titanic whiff by this team. Yahoo! Sports - Top News
I was leading the group, hacking through the undergrowth with my trusty knife when all of a sudden we heard a sound, barely perceptible, like a whiffling in the undergrowth.
That's not so much the case for the book people, and there's a whiff of desperation to the coverage, as if the Kindle is adeus ex machina that will help them maintain relevance. The Kindle: Books Don't Need Saving
A blog which quickly descends, in its comment moderation policy, into the kind of tinpot authoritarianism that the likes of Guido and Dale are just itching to catch a whiff off. Paranoia, paranoia…
So her campaign has been trying what it calls a proactive effort to fix problems with committee reports it filed with the State Board of Elections, performing a yearlong voluntary audit of her campaign finances and forfeiting donations that had a whiff of potential illegality. WRAL.com Top Stories
And there is a whiff of ironic retro cool in wearing a rebuilt 1950s housedress or baking pink cupcakes from scratch.
I had to get out and let the whiffletrees loose, then the team managed to get out on solid ground.
The stink temporarily resurfaced a few months later in June 2003 and at one point was dubbed Le Pong because locals thought the whiff was being blown in from France.
I could smell rosemary and thyme when the breeze whiffled through. I is for Innocent
More gongs and bells, another whiff of fragrant resin. A Plague of Angels
The graphically crisp, retro lettering style adds a whiff of nostalgia to this evocation of language's reflexive capacity.
Cincinnati Reds shortstop Barry Larkin batted leadoff for the NL and got the first whiff of Martinez's mastery, but he came through on his next at-bat by driving in Burnitz with a third-inning single off the New York Yankees 'David Cone. NL players relish Fenway feeling
In early times, the farmer made implements and gear, neck yokes, whiffletrees, and wagon boxes with fittings hand forged or bought in a kit.
The Instagram photo of your gourmet steak dinner comes with a whiff of buttery mashed potatoes. Times, Sunday Times
Their bargain-bin lineup has a Triple-A whiff to it, and they could easily fold in the second half, like they did last season.
Bloomington is a small town, and any whiff of scandal would torpedo the project.
For they look set to catch a nasty whiff of sewage from an adjacent Yorkshire Water sewage treatment works - at least when the prevailing south-westerly winds are blowing.
Has it occurred to these pundits that Obama has already whiffed on two easy layups: first, he actually believed it would be possible to withdrawer from Iraq in 16 months -- which is jawdroppingly naeve (or if he didn't believe it he scammed voters with the promise) -- then he even more incomprehensibly contacted the Pakistani president after being elected but blew off the India president. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
The foot-beds use antimicrobial silver to keep whiffs away. The Sun
We rode past small shops and street vendors, restaurants and pizzerias, drinking the atmosphere in with the occasional whiff of good food.
Such things have a faint whiff of murder. Times, Sunday Times
This new main angle appears to be from my old seat in the East Lower, next to a bloke who swore like a trooper, had questionable politics and a faint whiff of onions. Tottenham Hotspur v FC Twente – as it happened
A whiff of spruce and pine. THE LAST OF THE GENTLEMEN ADVENTURERS: Coming of Age in the Arctic
Sabrina took a deep whiff of the steaming beverage, eyes closed.
Yet there is an unpleasant whiff of xenophobia about it. Times, Sunday Times
A fast train whiffled through the town and they baggage-hooked a mailbag off the car at about a hundred and fifty per. Highways in Hiding
The whiff of fraudulent business practices will linger.
Ever since, it has borne a whiff of consumerist self-indulgence, and its advocates then and now are accused of prizing sensation over anything more profound or ostensibly value-laden.
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
He also got an instructive whiff of the old guard. THE LAST PARTY: Britpop, Blair and the demise of English rock
Or just seize all their assets, do not allow them or their families into the US again and specifically put in every contract the contract is null and void, a 100% penality will be paid and the contract terminated if any of them or their families even give the whiff of the appearanceof impropriety and let them rely on the charity of their nation to support them? Costs of Entrepreneurship, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

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