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Example sentences for: whiff

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

Then it disintegrates, leaving a mess of color and a faint whiff of rot" (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly ). (The official site includes several trailers and stills from the film.)
A whiff of his frat-boy charm is a powerful thing.
Or in my case, I got a whiff of his jockish charm.
But the Independent noted "a whiff of rebellion" in the spontaneous singing by the entire parliament of Robert Burns' anti-royal ballad "A man's a man for a' that," which favorably compares the ordinary man with "Yon birkie ca'd 'a lord' /Wha struts an stares, an a' that."
These were merely adequate, giving off in some cases a Quaylean whiff of heavy pre-programming, especially on foreign policy topics.