Sentence examples for whiff of winter from inspiring English sources

Leeks seem misguided: like the potato, they bring a whiff of winter with them, and together the two hint strongly at vichyssoise.

That is where they were on March 17, the night President Bush delivered his televised ultimatum to Mr. Hussein, an evening whose mild breeze carried the first whiff of winter thaw.

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.

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

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.

His is quinoa-based, rather than the familiar reconstituted puck of vegetable and soy bits; nuts and aromatic spices lend it a slight whiff of Christmas cake.

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