whiff out a prayer. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Yes, it was not the "whiff" of a startled deer or moose, but struck the astonished boy more like the wailing cry of a distressed child. From Wordnik.com. [Phil Bradley's Mountain Boys The Birch Bark Lodge] Reference
Could it be that the mere "whiff" of "trial by jury" at. From Wordnik.com. [Indymedia Ireland] Reference
Yes the Met will be along soon enough once they get a'whiff 'of it!. From Wordnik.com. [Iain Dale's Diary] Reference
You can shoot 30 shots in a row hard, and the one you kind of whiff on goes through. From Wordnik.com. [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference
Others, clearly, have been drawn by the whiff of power. From Wordnik.com. [Lula's Long Road] Reference
This convention has had a fair whiff of noblesse oblige. From Wordnik.com. [Report From Philly: Why The Gop Is Playing Nice] Reference
This time, ticket balancing will require a whiff of outsiderhood. From Wordnik.com. [Hunting The Angry Voter] Reference
If a whiff of soot unnerves the audience, then that's okay by Sisk. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas Comes To An Exhausted City] Reference
And, she said, without a whiff of braggadocio about her, "I got it.". From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Girl] Reference
Most don't cause such a frenzy -- absent a whiff of celebrity or controversy. From Wordnik.com. [Where Is Danielle Van Dam?] Reference
Trusted visitors to Buckingham Palace caught the first whiff of the intrigue. From Wordnik.com. [How It Ended: A Book's Intimate New Details] Reference
Would Officer Candidate School carry the whiff of elitism for Tennessee voters?. From Wordnik.com. [Al Gore's Patriotic Chore] Reference
In Britain, the mother of monarchies, a whiff of republicanism infects the air. From Wordnik.com. [The Monarchy Will Prevail] Reference
"The whiff of fascism," said New York Congressman Jerry Nadler, "was in the air.". From Wordnik.com. [War Of The Weary] Reference
She looked at her husband's campaign and smelled disaster - and a whiff of betrayal. From Wordnik.com. [Bush: The Fingers Of Blame] Reference
"This has more than a whiff of the White House about it," says historian Peter Hennessy. From Wordnik.com. [Tony New Addresses] Reference
Finally the public is getting a whiff of accuracy about the workings of this administration. From Wordnik.com. [International Letters: What Bush Knew] Reference
You have only to look at Japan or Europe for a whiff of what the future might bring, he adds. From Wordnik.com. [BIRTH DEARTH] Reference
By the standards of Washingtonology, it was a peculiar choice, carrying the whiff of endgame. From Wordnik.com. [Foster Follies] Reference
In the early 1970s, anyone who wanted a whiff of semifreedom went to Belgrade, not Ljubljana. From Wordnik.com. [The Improbable Dream] Reference
As that remark suggests, there's more than a whiff of overconfidence among Blair's foot soldiers. From Wordnik.com. [TONY'S SECOND CHANCE] Reference
After one whiff detected last summer, U.S. sensors ringing North Korea have picked up nothing since. From Wordnik.com. [NUKES: IS THE INTEL ON NORTH KOREA AS BAD AS IT W] Reference
Rumsfeld's reply had more than a whiff of bitterness: "I think you have to ask Condi that question.". From Wordnik.com. [Rumsfeld Bares His Fangs] Reference
These sentiments bubble to the surface periodically, and they sometimes carry a whiff of condescension. From Wordnik.com. [The Veep Stands By His Man] Reference
So beats the heart of Blair's government: tough and uncompromising, with a whiff of Tony Knows Best about it. From Wordnik.com. [Getting The Hang Of Power] Reference
Though hardly disdainful or haughty, Obama has a whiff of entitlement that can border on self-congratulation. From Wordnik.com. [An Unfamiliar Narrative] Reference
SEVEN MILLION TOURISTS A YEAR flock to Hollywood Boulevard hoping for a whiff of the film capital's glamorous past. From Wordnik.com. [Hollywood, The Sequel] Reference
Bathed in the SoCal breeze, a frat-house party at San Diego State University could offer more than a whiff of indulgence. From Wordnik.com. [‘These Guys Had to Be Taken Down’] Reference
The non-French tend to respond in almost Pavlovian fashion, raising their hackles at the slightest whiff of Gallic arrogance. From Wordnik.com. [France Blows It Again] Reference
Even the whiff of coercion that people might lose "free choice" of doctors helped doom President Clinton's health reform in 1994. From Wordnik.com. [Getting Serious] Reference
The director Graham Beal, a bow-tied Brit, was determined to extinguish the deathly whiff of elitism, and ordered audience surveys. From Wordnik.com. [Makeover For a Motor City Gem] Reference
A whiff of higher taxes could thus not only have an unsettling effect on the economy, but on Blair's own electoral fortunes as well. From Wordnik.com. [Are Teflon Tony's Days Numbered?] Reference
That's because non-U.S. investors loathe even a whiff of instability, and tend to pull out their money first and ask questions later. From Wordnik.com. [The Real Bottom Line] Reference
Brahimi, dispatched by U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan to help resolve the election dispute, got of a whiff of that sentiment this week. From Wordnik.com. [Pencil It In] Reference
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