wafting

Example Sentences

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"In a five-day Test match, you should hunker down. Wafting outside 'sixth stump' areas has never been in the textbooks, and that is mainly the fault of the top order."

From BBC • Dec. 22, 2025

Wafting in the Shakespearean sublime one minute, sozzled in a dark pub with theater cronies the next, Plummer received an immersive education in both the majesty and the frailty of the actor’s life.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 9, 2021

Wafting out around Andrea along with the warm air was the sound of conversation; the house was stuffed with people.

From Slate • Nov. 28, 2020

Wafting through the moist air was the accumulated scent — sweet but not cloying — of dozens of snowdrop blossoms emerging from black plastic pots set on his waist-high growing benches.

From Washington Post • Feb. 4, 2019

Wafting, betray to Quirites, as Midas' reeds did with cheap gossip, One happy couple in love, and their sweet secret, at last.

From Erotica Romana by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von