Example sentences for: whiff

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

  • If you feel like a quick whiff of the wilderness on your way back, turn off to walk the swaying suspension bridge 76 m (230 ft) above the fast-flowing waters of Capilano Canyon.

  • I don't know whom I adored more: Billy Bob Thornton as a greasy hick with a whiff of Tales From the Crypt -style demonism; Nick Nolte, as a skeletal, gravel-voiced albino who could be John Huston after a decade of being eaten by worms; or Jon Voight, as a blind half-Indian whose portentous utterances are both full of crap and eerily abstruse.

  • --but she's plenty smart and aware, as we learned when she dressed down Father Paul for being a schnorrer who plays head games with lonely women because he "likes the whiff of sexuality."

  • These were merely adequate, giving off in some cases a Quaylean whiff of heavy pre-programming, especially on foreign policy topics.

  • Or in my case, I got a whiff of his jockish charm.


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