Sentence examples for whiff off from inspiring English sources

He has read how people choose their mates on smell and some sixth sense, a pheromone whiff off histocompatibility complexes other than their own, but recognized.

The exceptions are the robotic dugout cameras, as their operators work with Moore on Yankee games where they've established a visual shorthand: "If I take a shot of the manager from the high first camera, they might sneak over with their robo and get a shot of him, and I'll know they know that's who I'm looking for, so we'll take the shot knowing they're not going to whiff off it".

Such is the emotional potency of scent, he said, that his customers, especially those originally from India, will sometimes catch a whiff off these spices and cry.

But there is also a whiff off the bravura of the opera house, with the armless seats upholstered in a rich red fabric also used to make covers (they call them socks) for the air conditioning ducts.

The scents are diverse and invigorating with nary a whiff of Off! to be found.

Companies whose shares took the worst beating were those with opaque or complex financial statements, those heavy with debt or those with even a whiff of off-balance-sheet obligations.

Good standbys are Clinique's CX Neck and Chest De-Aging Cream (£73, clinique.co.uk), which, despite a faint whiff of just-off salad, does the job well, and Clarins's reliably gentle and subtly fragrant Advanced Extra-Firming Neck Cream (£44, houseoffraser.co.uk).

A raw, urban romanticism, a whiff of youthful daring came off his art.

A gamey whiff has rubbed off from Johnny Depp's acting to his career.

But Apple benefitting financially is what makes this particular trade-off whiff.

They give off a whiff of the malign.