Sentence examples for whiff him from inspiring English sources

He's facing the Rays' Desmond Jennings, but Lester throws a 97 mph fastball to whiff him.

He was focused on Henry Rodriguez and whiffed him on a 2-2 fastball.

Pettitte, who said the scouting report on Maybin was that "he likes the heater," whiffed him with his trademark biting slider.

Hernandez had struck out Vaughn in his first two at-bats with off-speed pitches -- once whiffing him with a 67 mile-an-hour curveball after throwing mostly fastballs -- and with the count one ball and two strikes, Hernandez threw his hardest fastball to that point, 90 m.p.h., Vaughn leaning back.

There's a whiff about him of a man who's still slightly mesmerised by the switch from physics teacher to bestselling author – perhaps any agonising over his identity will come, if at all, much further down the line.

Director Abel Ferrara gave both actors free rein to improvise; in one scene, following Georges' release from custody on an attempted rape charge, Simone bemoans the fact that one whiff of him is all it takes for her to be back in his thrall.

The team tested one male monkey at a time by restraining his head, sliding him into the brain scanner, and letting him whiff a wooden disk dabbed with eau d'ovulator or eau d'ovariectomized.

I had him whiff my first renditions.

Does Hunt have a whiff of Charles Saatchi about him?

McIlroy has the whiff of greatness about him.

Izzard has about him the whiff of comic greatness but none of the presenting symptoms of most inspired funnymen.