Sentence examples for in a whiff of from inspiring English sources

Then they breathed in a whiff of apprehension.

Money that should be used for food and housing goes up in a whiff of hope instead.

The ravenous dingoes, the amphetamine-addicted mechanics, the rogue elements – living beyond the reach of the law – will, as the frontiers recede, go the way of the rogue Irishman Kelly, disappearing in a whiff of iron-clad folklore.

Yet in a glaring contradiction, wrapped in a whiff of arrogance, they insist this fair process be conducted to a ridiculously quick timetable of their choosing: wrapped up by mid-November.

To think of his schooldays is, he says, "to breathe in a whiff of something cold and evil-smelling – a sort of compound of sweaty stockings, dirty towels, faecal smells blowing along corridors, forks with old food between the prongs, neck-of-mutton stew, and the banging doors of the lavatories and the echoing chamber-pots in the dormitories".

The Associated Press reports on the last, bittersweet stage of a lengthy engagement: In a whiff of 2008 nostalgia, some of Obama's traveling companions from his campaign four years ago were planning to join him on the road for the final days of his last campaign.

I write in my column:A whiff of corporatism rises from Lyford's pages.

In the past two years BA has slashed one in four jobs about 13,000 in all without a whiff of labour trouble.

Our minds might end up in strange places from a whiff of chocolate.

"The next thing you know we'll be banned from smoking in our own gardens in case a whiff of smoke travels over the fence.

Set in San Francisco, Chance has more than a whiff of film noir, particularly in Mol's shadowy character.