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It also isn’t uncommon for wildfire smoke from the U.S. to waft into Canada.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

I inhale, letting new smells — something minty and palo santo-y, maybe? — waft over me.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 27, 2026

He played diligently until a slightly lazy waft off Rabada gave Bedingham a second grab in the slips.

From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2025

With movement, their vertical skirt layers waft open, like the turning pages of a book.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2025

Instead, a faint, foul chemical smell and a cool, humid emptiness waft out from the main doors of the building.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland

The scent of Mexican spiced coffee brewed in a clay pot wafts through the front room.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026

"Life is short as a drying drop of water. Don't be sad," a singer's voice wafts into the street.

From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026

But this is not a blood-and-guts show business exposé — it’s a diaphanous portrait of a woman who, like Anderson herself, wafts through life like a marabou feather.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 2025

The scent of copal, a tree resin used by Mesoamerican cultures for spiritual, medicinal and practical rituals, wafts through the space.

From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2024

Smoke wafts up from the cabin’s stone chimney.

From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston

Walter Heckem, 63, moved into the residence a few years ago and says the free dinners, especially pasta and beef dishes, remind him of the smells that wafted through his childhood home.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026

The smell of manure and dirt wafted in the humid air.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026

Having made 15, Martin Andersson wafted uncharacteristically loosely outside the off stump and edged a catch to Jones at first slip.

From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2026

On Thursday morning, over 100 artists, gallerists and collectors representing 24 countries wafted into the maze that is Frieze at the Santa Monica Airport and transformed the space into a winding runway.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2026

There was almost no wind, even up on the bluff, and the smoke curled and wafted upward like a curtain quivering as it shuttled across a stage.

From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely

Growing up in southwest France, where her father made wine and her mother operated a bed-and-breakfast, Ms. de Ferrier enjoyed how the fragrance of the château’s garden swirled with the scents wafting from the kitchen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

The smell of dill wafting through the air.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2026

Taken along with the overall stink that still hangs on the Globes, which joins the general toxicity wafting in the air a mere 11 days into 2026, however, it’s all pretty deflating.

From Salon ● Jan. 12, 2026

The acrid smoke wafting from burning waste in her neighbourhood in Nigeria's biggest city, Lagos, made it hard to breathe.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2025

He lifted his fingers and let the last wafting air carry the notes out into the room.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt