Sentence examples for whiff of spring from inspiring English sources

Last Monday morning, anyone around town who stepped outside expecting either a loamy first whiff of spring or some more familiar indigenous reek discovered instead the faint but unmistakable smell of woodsmoke.

By Nick Paumgarten Last Monday morning, anyone around town who stepped outside expecting either a loamy first whiff of spring or some more familiar indigenous reek discovered instead the faint but unmistakable smell of woodsmoke.

Last Monday morning, anyone around town who stepped outside expecting either a loamy first whiff of spring or some more familiar indigenous reek discovered instead… Even under normal circumstances, with the magnolias and the cherry trees in full bloom, it would have been tough last week for Columbia students to….

It gave off an unmistakable whiff of spring, of a career flowering again after a long winter.

For an optimistic whiff of spring, pot up a few hyacinth bulbs, which you can buy already growing for £1.50 each.

As some people can pick up a whiff of spring in the air on a winter's day, radical innovators can smell the change that is barely in the air.

The weather deities offered a daylong whiff of spring last week.

There was a distinct whiff of Christmas in that Aldi advert.

If you weren't going for a whiff of 1960s British cool, you were out of luck.

Novels should be about the Now, should have a whiff of last week's headlines – or next week's.

"Because the proposed law had a vague whiff of 1984 about it" would not be a very satisfactory response.