Sentence examples for whiff that from inspiring English sources

At least the scandal meant that the familiar whiff that surrounds the final day was not there this time; alarm bells had been sounded, players and presidents warned.

Like the Bisto kids, Premier Foods shareholders are following a pungent whiff that will lead them to the group's annual meeting this week.

Walking through the lobby of my hotel, Le Parker Meridien on W57th St, my nostrils were lured by a hamburgerish whiff that seemed at odds with the vast mirrors and Damien Hirst abstraction.

Silvestre was responsible, directly or indirectly, for all three scored by the Red Bulls: a mind-numbingly bad back pass that led to Espindola's opening goal, a whiff that let Espindola in again to score the second, and a poorly timed walkabout that allowed the Red Bulls to add a third before halftime.

It's a rather sad misfire, arguably another whiff that should have been an easy single or double.

In a "ripped from the headlines" television landscape with the award-winning performances of The People v. O. J. Simpson American Crime Storyy on one side, and even the memorable production design of Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders on the other, Waco feels like a whiff that won't get another do-over.

Gareth Batty started in extraordinary fashion, his opening two balls wildly down the legside and rightly called wides, the first so skew-whiff that Gary Wilson could not reach it and it ran away to the fence.

He hit a shot as straight as a crow flies, watched it roll toward a flag 250 yards away and muttered, "I almost whiffed that one".

They are going to come and take a whiff of that and just fall in love with this guy".

That might sound initially unlikely, but the history of music is the history of revolutions too, and Mozart in the Jungle contains a whiff of that.

In two sets on Thursday the Fugs offered a whiff of that ephemeral 1960's moment when it seemed that pleasure could be revolutionary.