Sentence examples for characteristic whiff from inspiring English sources
An encounter with leek that's squeakily undercooked can be quite offputting, and apart from soups, where the thinly sliced green flags add a characteristic whiff and bright colour, leeks are generally best kept away from water.
One is an enzyme known as cystathionine beta synthase (CBS), which stimulates the production of hydrogen sulphide, the molecule that gives rotten eggs their characteristic whiff.
Tocqueville's solution has a whiff of characteristic French cynicism, even of hypocrisy.
If anything, its most enduring characteristic is a distinct whiff of merde de taureau.
Those are the characteristics requisite to a monster: a whiff of evil and an aura of invincibility.
Otherwise just about anything with a whiff of creativity, lateral thinking, innovation or any other characteristics of design can be deemed to be "designed".
Some readers may also have a problem with the whiff of homophobia in the depictions of the Eighties gay scene; others may just retch at the characteristic semantic overload - maculate credenzas are swamped by anfractuous apophthegms amid prognathous rodomontade.
There's a whiff of jittery televisual histrionics about the series, a sense of the soapy overstatement that so often seems characteristic of the small screen.
