waft
verb (used with object)
to carry lightly and smoothly through the air or over water.
are wafting
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present progressiveof waft.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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The Tesla’s battery caught on fire and toxic fumes are wafting down the nearby interstate, CHP Officer Jason Lyman said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2024
But opponents of the incinerator, a coalition of environmentalists, parents and former incinerator workers, fear that traces of sarin and mustard gases that are wafting from the stacks could cause health problems years from now.
From Time Magazine Archive
Now fresh breezes of tolerance are wafting through many Soviet schools, from first to tenth grade.
From Time Magazine Archive
These days plenty of wows are wafting through Hollywood.
From Time Magazine Archive
Now hand in hand, they stand by the shore Of a river dark and wide; And the songs which the seraphs are wafting o'er, They catch from the other side.
From Gathering Jewels The Secret of a Beautiful Life: In Memoriam of Mr. & Mrs. James Knowles. Selected from Their Diaries. by Young, Duncan McNeill
