whiff

There were stories of distant strife, in Bosnia, Rwanda, and Northern Ireland, and those stories had the whiff of a different era.

Nobody should waste their time penning letters that any pediatrician with a whiff of insight will ignore.

But alongside all the true-fandom, a whiff of regret lingers.

In 2010, she revived the war crimes tribunal: nearly four decades after the crimes, a whiff of justice.

And while worldly success sometimes has a whiff of demonic patronage, identification is dangerous.

You have not had a whiff with me for a long time, and here is a new church-warden waiting to be broken in.

It just goes "whiff" and six or eight long letters are done, so far as you're concerned.

This time he was weaving no fantasy round a whiff of violets.

At the same instant a whiff of the acrid smoke from the distant furnace fires tingled in his nostrils, and he quickened his pace.

I always fancy there is a whiff of sea air upon the hill there.'