Sentence examples for whiff to from inspiring English sources

There's a pathetic whiff to all of this.

These diets required extreme abstinence and often had a cultish whiff to them.

Unlike guanciale, it is smoked and gives a backwoods whiff to bucatini all'amatriciana or other sauce, stew or braise.

Whereas the 1960s now have something of a colostomy whiff to them, though, that Big Apple sound has somehow remained forever young.

There's a distinct, daddy-knows-best whiff to this tableau that's underscored when a TV announcer bleats about the New Founding Fathers, God and America just before the Emergency Broadcast System kicks in.

In an operation that had a Stasi whiff to it some 1.4m inquiries were conducted and thousands of job-seekers barred.Some Germans wonder just how democratic the guardians of democracy are.

Martin whiffed to end a threat with two on in the third.

His neighbors' chickens, goats and a miniature white horse added incongruous barnyard whiffs to the exquisite citrus aroma.

But after Posada stole second and O'Neill walked, Joe Oliver whiffed to end the inning, the score tied at 3-3.

We can also use skew-whiff to describe things that don't go according to plan.

For the amine-odor (whiff test) to be performed, two drops of 10% potassium hydroxide were added to a fraction of the discharge obtained from the posterior vaginal fornix.