Sentence examples for same whiff from inspiring English sources

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That same whiff of sulphur is here.

She was more pleasant face-to-face, but subsequent e-mails with her had the same whiff about them.

It isn't only criminal cases: the purchase at auction of a big chunk of Yukos, Mr Khodorkovsky's oil firm, by a front company registered to a provincial grocery store, had the same whiff of slapdash panic.There is another possible reading of these antics.

Paris, Acapulco, Australia, Brazil, Canada carry almost the same whiff of glamour and they were the places where, either briefly or for years, three of the main train robbers – Ronnie Biggs, Bruce Reynolds and Charlie Wilson – managed to hide out before fate or illness eventually caught up with them.

Now that same whiff of suspicion may, unless he dispels it fast, start to hang over his own People's Party (PP .The worst recent news for Mr Aznar was a decision by state prosecutors to ask the Supreme Court to question the foreign minister, Josep Pique, in connection with alleged fraud committed when a Spanish firm, Ercros, sold a subsidiary to the French oil company, Elf.

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/ He thinks the woman he's thinking of fell asleep // smelling the faint odour of a distant star, / the self-same whiff of scorch that now keeps him awake".

Into the Wild, meanwhile, is far better than its near-namesake Wild, but it carries the same patchouli-scented whiff of neo-hippy 1990s self-indulgence: like Cheryl Strayed, its hero awards himself a grandiose new name, Alexander Supertramp.

All the same, there is a whiff of history about next week's encounter.If all goes well, the summit centrepiece will be a new set of strategic understandings better suited to the post-cold-war world.

At the same time, the slightest whiff of a foreign power trying to support an overthrow of the American government would result in a massive American assault.

To me, there's the slight whiff of Herefordshire: the same rolling hills, the same languid pace, seemingly permanently set at 6.30pm with the sun fading from the valleys.

There is a whiff of the same apathy that was evident in their batting on Sunday.

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