Example sentences for: wafting

How can you use “wafting” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • This past week, the Pentagon admitted that as many as 20,000 U.S. troops were exposed to nerve gas during the Gulf War, and the New York Times reported that Czech soldiers in the Gulf detected toxins "wafting over unprotected American troops."

  • The evening watches are set--on the bridge, combat information center, engineering control center, and communications room; the smell of fresh pastries from the galley is wafting throughout the ship.

  • Berlaymont has been closed for nine years after an asbestos scare and a botched cleanup: European taxpayers have paid $50 million so far merely to keep the building closed, with air pumps running around the clock to prevent any fibers from wafting out.

  • Numbers began wafting about on the breezes: "I'd say at least five; it has got to be five."

  • With its wafting incense and masses said in Greek or Arabic (the church belongs to the Melchite sect of the Greek Orthodox Church), St-Julien is not out of place in an area packed with Middle Eastern restaurants.


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