Example Sentences

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It’s not clear if cars were intentionally being targeted or if the debris from fireworks was wafting down.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 2, 2021

“Music on,” he declared, and soon the sound of There She Goes by the La’s was wafting through the room, above the gentle whirr of Altman’s drill.

From The Guardian • Nov. 10, 2020

One suspended well, set in the woods only a few hundred feet from a home, was wafting the telltale rotten smell of hydrogen sulfide.

From New York Times • Oct. 30, 2020

A Loop Fan who was in the restaurant on Tuesday said cigar smoke was wafting from a semi-private room upstairs where Boehner’s group was dining, but it wasn’t clear whether the speaker was smoking it.

From Washington Post • Jun. 15, 2015

There were at least thirty men in the shadows, crowded together, and a fierce stench was wafting out at us.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French