Use whiff in a sentence
Sentences starting with whiff
- Whiff after whiff sailed airily back, and each one widened the breach. [5]
Sentences ending with whiff
- It stopped, and came out of his mouth on one long, straight whiff. [11]
Sentences containing whiff two or more times
- As when a window is opened a whiff of fresh air from the fields enters a stuffy room, so a whiff of youthfulness, energy, and confidence of success reached Kutuzov's cheerless staff with the galloping advent of all these brilliant young men. [2]
More example sentences with the word whiff in them
- The southwest wind, with a whiff of the channel salt in it, blew the curtains at our backs. [9]
- That first long whiff was like the indrawn breath of the cold, starved hunter, when, stepping into his house, he sees food, fire, and wife on his hearthstone. [11]
- There is a whiff of something floating about, suggestive of toasting shingles. [6]
- Not until he was returning--not, indeed, until he entered the house did the whiff of its degrading, heated odours bring home to him the tragedy which it held, and he grasped the banister on the stairs. [9]
- In all that time we had not so much as got a whiff of an English frigate, though we had almost put a belt around the British Isles. [9]
- When I had taken the last whiff, I wrapped myself in my cloak and went to sleep. [11]
- A whiff of smoke drifted back over my shoulder, and-- "The suffering Moses! [5]
- But theirs,' he says, 'are white as paper and not so much smell as a whiff of gunpowder. [2]
- And presently I said to myself reflectively, "If there is anything that could make a man deliberately assault a dying cripple, I reckon may be an unexpected whiff from this pipe would do it. [5]
- Mr. Smythe's letter probably passed under my nose on its way to lose three weeks traveling to America and back, and gave me a whiff of its contents as it went along. [5]
- Lifting the bowl of the censer, in the eyes of all the people he drew in a long whiff to bear witness of peace. [9]
- However, there was no other way; so with such show of cheerfulness as they could muster they called for the pipe and took their whiff as it passed, in due form. [5]
- He took a long whiff at his pipe, and added thoughtfully, "I reckon this ain't no place fer me now, with all the settler folks and land-grabbers comin' through the Gap. [9]
- In half an hour an old woman passed by, carrying a grip: I caught the familiar whiff, and followed with my grip, for it was Fuller. [5]
- Mr. Worthington, whose hawklike look had become more pronounced, sat upright, while the Honorable Heth, his legs crossed, filled every nook and cranny of an arm-chair, and an occasional fragrant whiff from his cigar floated out to those on the tar sidewalk. [9]
- Come along, my daughter," he said to Lali; "come up here and take the last whiff of Greyhope that you will have for six months. [11]
- Like his friend Carlyle and like Tennyson, Emerson had a liking for a whiff of tobacco-smoke:-- "When alone," he said, "he rarely cared to finish a whole cigar. [6]
- But he had a whiff of deer leather about him, and shoulders and back and legs to make his fortune at Hockley in the Hole, had he lived two generations since. [9]
- Before him came a soul-subduing whiff of ipecacuanha, and after him lingered a shuddering consciousness of rhubarb. [3]
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