wafted
Example Sentences
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Wafted through the air, these vapors apparently stimulate neighboring undamaged trees, which also alter their leaf chemistry in order to become less tasty to voracious bugs.
From Time Magazine Archive
Wafted along by George Gershwin's symphonies, the story is that of a highborn scioness, financially but never socially embarrassed, who wins a treasure hunt and marries a paste-board realtor.
From Time Magazine Archive
Wafted from this shore, came balm of flowers, and melody of birds: a thousand summer sounds and odors.
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Melville, Herman
What echo in all Cithaeron will be mute, When thou perceiv’st, what bride-song in thy hall Wafted thy gallant bark with nattering gale To anchor,—where?
From The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles
Scattered among them were myriads of white-wooled sheep, constantly moving, Looking like fleecy clouds sailing serenely across the blue heavens, Wafted now hither now thither in crowds by the winds in the spring-time.
From Fridthjof's Saga; a Norse romance by Holcomb, Martha A. Lyon
