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Example sentences for: whiff

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But much of the problem, he insisted, was other people's fault: investors who pulled out their money at the first whiff of difficulty, forcing a sudden financial restructuring that aggravated the losses; hedge funds that, seeing his weakness, speculated against him.
Also on the harbor, the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic (1675 Lower Water Street,) is housed in a turn-of-the-century ship chandlery, setting the tone with a nostalgic whiff of tarred rope in the restored shop on the ground floor.
Maybe this whiff of fresh scandal was the deciding factor in Newt's abrupt withdrawal from the mud fight."
In the old Klondike boomtowns, people find a whiff of romance from the great gold rush of 1897.
Gore went on many such trips, where he and other Army journalists caught a whiff of combat without participating in it.