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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.)
Gore went on many such trips, where he and other Army journalists caught a whiff of combat without participating in it.
Reports from the Reform Party's recent convention in Dearborn, Mich., conveyed a fragrant whiff of Bedlam.
Or in my case, I got a whiff of his jockish charm.
These were merely adequate, giving off in some cases a Quaylean whiff of heavy pre-programming, especially on foreign policy topics.