Examples of whiff

• Opossum shrimps play an important part in the estuarine food chain and are consumed in large quantities by such fish as the striped bass, inland silverside, whiffs and flounders.

• The smoke spread very gradually as far as the crater of the volcano, while there were many whiffs issuing from points in the direction of another headland.

• The report has a whiff of exquisite patronage.

• I am sorry that late at night he should have caught a whiff from some very bad quarter and given voice to such monstrous sentiments.

• There is not a whiff of how they will operate.

• The biggest threat of all would be a whiff of a stage 2 with substance.

• The whiff of patronage cannot be entirely eradicated from a board that owes its appointment to favour.

• They will be blamed, and heavily blamed, for giving us a whiff of petty dictatorship.