Sentence examples for It whiff from inspiring English sources

I work for the outdoor clothing company Rohan and for the past two years I've been developing a travel suit that has silver woven into the lining which makes it whiff free.

It's impossible to know currently whether it's a deliberate stunt or a clumsy U-turn, but the fact that the so-called axing was initially reported by the Times – the Sun's sister paper – does make it whiff a bit.

It struck me as a safe move for HP, especially after it whiffed so profoundly with its ill-fated TouchPad.

Plus, it whiffed of exploitation.

For all of the Astros' decorated starting pitchers, their batting order was offensively challenged through most of the regular season, and it whiffed again Wednesday night.

It whiffs, in fact, rather strongly of wishful thinking on the part of people whose consciences are having trouble squaring a desire to get out, with the likely consequences of leaving the criminals, terrorists and tribal militias to their own devices.A source in the defense policy establishment points out another reason that "graceful exit" is unlikely:  retreat is more dangerous than advance.

So while it whiffed on that earnings number, things may not seem as grave as they look at face value.

Manon Melis took a great ball in the seventh minute but couldn't get a foot on it, whiffing as she knocked it out of bounds.

Perhaps it has about it a whiff of Eros which is maybe why it was so alien to my schoolmaster.

"Yeah, I whiff it in practice rounds, I back off," Na said.

The anecdote, which is true and is featured in David Halberstam's "The Powers That Be," is so unreal, so anachronistic, and so painfully earnest that it has about it the whiff of cotton-candy apocrypha.