How to Use waft in a Sentence

waft

1 of 2 verb

• The smell of chicken soup wafted up to my bedroom.
• A breeze wafted the scent of roses towards our table.
• The sound of music wafted softly into the yard from our neighbor's house.
• The fire burned for months and the smell wafted up to 15 miles away.
  — Williesha Morris | [e-mail], al, 13 Aug. 2023
• The bright green and yellow streams of smoke that linger and waft through the air.
  — Caitlin Murray, oregonlive, 24 Aug. 2020
• Even so, the stench wafting out of the bathroom was putrid.
  — Dante Ross, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2023
• With each footstep, the scent of grass or horse manure wafted through the air.
  — Clarence Williams, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2023
• The sound of water wafts up from below and the night sky above is littered with stars.
  — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 3 Nov. 2023
• Lucky for Melton, there’s an earnestness that wafts off him, even over a grainy Zoom.
  — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 6 Dec. 2023
• But can the Halloween spirit waft in through the car window?
  — Carly Mallenbaum, USA TODAY, 15 Oct. 2020
• The aroma of nutmeg wafted through the grove, with some trees more than 75 years old.
  — Muktita Suhartono Nyimas Laula, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2024
• The smells of batter and syrup wafted through the campus hallways.
  — USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2024
• The founders’ auras waft through the townhouse as surely as the delicious scents.
  — Marni Elyse Katz, Robb Report, 12 Dec. 2022
• Burning pine needles, and the rich, muscly scent of shrimp paste waft over from the open kitchen.
  — New York Times, 12 Oct. 2021
• In roughly 2–3 hours, when its summery aroma wafts around the house, the stock is ready.
  — Melina Hammer, Bon Appétit, 20 July 2023
• Still, the floral, fruity odor of the chemical butyl acrylate still wafts up from the streams.
  — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 3 Mar. 2023
• The smoke from bratwurst on the grill wafts higher than the 14-foot Vince Lombardi statue.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2023
• The stench of death from dozens of animals buried under the rubble wafts through parts of the village.
  — NBC News, 12 Sep. 2023
• Fleets of tiny translucent umbrellas, each about the size of a lentil, waft through the waters of the Mediterranean Sea.
  — Veronique Greenwood, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Sep. 2022
• The odor of cannabis wafted up the back stairs toward the cavernous, second-floor newsroom.
  — Daniel Golden, ProPublica, 14 Oct. 2023
• The model predicts that smoke may continue to waft as far south as Georgia through the end of the day.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 28 June 2023
• As the leaves start to change, the nights get colder, and the familiar scent of a wood-fire oven wafts down the street, there is another change in the air.
  — Emily Newhouse, Allure, 13 Oct. 2023
• The band mines the era’s pop hits for glimmers of a glossy past—spare lyrics from old hits waft in the air—but everything sounds a bit spooky.
  — The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2021
• On the trap bottom, place a lure with pheromones that waft a scent to attract certain insects.
  — oregonlive, 17 Jan. 2022
• Cigar smoke didn’t waft from either locker room that evening.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 21 Oct. 2020
• And while Calder thought the mobile would need a motor to turn, the final product spins on the currents of air that waft through the atrium.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2022
• Take the glass, waft it underneath your nose in a little circle.
  — Stefene Russell, The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 May 2022
• After all, the birds are still chirping and a cool breeze is wafting by the placid Pharmalot campus.
  — Ed Silverman, STAT, 29 Mar. 2023
• If a woman sitting on a throne in the middle of a parking lot tending fire isn’t enough to stop cars and trucks, the thick perfume of smoke wafting out of the smoker door serves as a word-of-nose advertisement.
  — Jill Wendholt Silva, Kansas City Star, 30 Jan. 2024
• Aromas from its classic dishes of honey walnut prawns, kung pao chicken, an assortment of chow mein and the famous banana cream pie continue to waft from the kitchen.
  — Hanh Truong, Sacramento Bee, 21 Feb. 2024

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waft

2 of 2 noun

• The thick smell of the fried chicken wafts over the street.
  — Deneen L. Brown, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2018
• At the movies, the smell of warm, buttery popcorn wafts through the air.
  — Denise Teter, Philly.com, 8 Dec. 2017
• The scent of new car leather and freshly cut green grass wafts through the rooms.
  — Abby Ellin, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2017
• The aroma of spicy shredded beef and pork wafts through the air.
  — Emma Schwartz, Bon Appétit, 2 July 2019
• Each time there’s a sizzle, a fresh waft of spices fills the room.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Sep. 2019
• Smoke rises from their midst and the heady smell of hashish wafts all the way to the street outside the gates.
  — Maija Liuhto, Longreads, 28 June 2018
• From the stands, the scent of marijuana wafts down from the tiny crowd.
  — Peter King, SI.com, 21 Sep. 2017
• The familiar smell of fish wafts through the air from the nearby seafood stands.
  — Lindsay Cohn, ELLE Decor, 6 Mar. 2018
• Torres says as the stench of hot oil wafts over the neighborhood.
  — Susan Carpenter, Los Angeles Magazine, 7 May 2018
• The smell of sewage wafts over unpaved streets choked with plastic trash.
  — Benjamin Preston, Fortune, 24 July 2017
• This drink smelled more like cotton candy to me at first waft.
  — Morgan Hines, USA TODAY, 16 Dec. 2021
• Cue the sounds of rolling waves, wafts of sea breeze and quintessential ocean views.
  — Robyn George, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2023
• And the premise, which is barely comprehensible at the best of times, just wafts in and out of the play as suits the song choice.
  — Trevor Fraser, OrlandoSentinel.com, 16 May 2017
• Step closer and the stench fills the nostrils, a sickening waft that spreads over two long rows of cramped cages.
  — Martin Rogers, USA TODAY, 12 Feb. 2018
• The officer then smelled strong wafts of vanilla coming from the car.
  — Anne Branigin, The Root, 30 Oct. 2017
• The fumes of acrylic polish waft through an entryway that’s marked with a $100-bill welcome mat.
  — Kate Branch, Vogue, 7 May 2018
• Keep a Lid On It The mussels cook when hot steam produced from the simmering liquid wafts through the pot.
  — Rochelle Bilow, Bon Appetit, 9 Apr. 2018
• To me, The Federal is the waft of truffles that billows from the front door and entices the arriving guest.
  — Rand Richards Cooper, courant.com, 25 June 2019
• As carbon dioxide gas wafts off the ice and seeps through the burrows, rats fall asleep, then never wake up.
  — Charlie Hamilton James, National Geographic, 17 June 2019
• In the warm, undefined space of the painting, veils of blue and purple waft around a golden center.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Mar. 2021
• Inside, an unassuming air wafts throughout the space, where windows and doors are left open much of the year.
  — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 16 Apr. 2018
• There are wafts of fragrant florals; there are waves of winter spices.
  — Allison Robicelli, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2023
• Tailgating was banned, so no waft of sizzling brats, steaks and dogs.
  — Teddy Greenstein, chicagotribune.com, 12 Sep. 2020
• Lynn departed in a sand-and-beige waft of giggles and goodbyes to half the tearoom without even a nod to me.
  — Barbara Amiel, Town & Country, 20 Sep. 2020
• Grey clouds waft over scattering crowds in the footage from Seattle this past Sunday.
  — Popular Science, 8 June 2020
• Even when Trump is in a lighthearted mood, hints of anxiety waft over the table like steam over a teacup.
  — The New York Times, NOLA.com, 10 Dec. 2017
• Ms. Teo’s only complaint is that smoke from neighbors wafts in.
  — Joyce Cohen, New York Times, 6 July 2017
• The smoke displays that get set off waft slowly across the field like the pyrotechnic haze that follows the halftime show at the Super Bowl.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 15 Oct. 2019
• Violence, for now, was put aside, the mere waft of it in the air satiating most appetites.
  — Luke O'Neil, Esquire, 13 May 2017
• But in Hungry, Gordinier invokes such playful and lush prose that the scents of mole, chiles and even lingonberry juice waft off the page.
  — Annabel Gutterman, Time, 25 June 2019

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