Sentence examples for to whiff from inspiring English sources
noun
A waft; a brief, gentle breeze; a light gust of air
He wasn't about to whiff on this hire.
He's facing the Rays' Desmond Jennings, but Lester throws a 97 mph fastball to whiff him.
Bailey gets Pence to whiff on fourth pitch of the at-bat and that's that for the Reds.
He whipped a 95-mile-an-hour fastball to whiff Brad Fullmer at the end of the second inning.
Hughes painted the corner with a fastball to Chavez, threw a 93 mile an hour fastball past Kouzmanoff and got Gross to whiff on a loopy, 78 m.p.h.
John Updike's Harry Angstrom, a k a Rabbit, who gropes toward personal grace through four novels only to whiff in the end.
You watch the walls come down; the smell of frying meat gives place to whiffs of gunpowder.
Ms. Schonbrun, 52, has multiple chemical sensitivity syndrome, which she says leaves her vulnerable to whiffs of substances that her system can no longer tolerate.
The detector consists of an array of hundreds of ultrathin metal wires that become less resistant when exposed to whiffs of hydrogen.
Considering this, researchers could presumably measure brain activity in response to whiffs of food and not base it on descriptions of smell alone.
(Often, recessions are needlessly caused by the Federal Reserve over-reacting to whiffs of inflation and strangling the economy with tight money, but I digress).
