Anoushka Shankar

Even though my father had a really successful career before the '60s, that kind of insane pop-culture splash that happened was so massive. People hear the sitar and immediately think, you know, flying carpets and tie-dyed T-shirts and wafting smoke.

British Musician

Honeysuckle Weeks

London is not a healthy place. I feel much healthier when I'm living in the countryside or, indeed, anywhere out of London. When I go back to the countryside to visit my mother, I get out of the car, and suddenly there's great wafts of fresh air.

British Actress

Cat Deeley

I hate birthdays. I hate birthday parties. I hate them. I don't know what it is, anybody's only got to come wafting near me with a piece of cake with a candle on and I break out in hives.

English Celebrity

Ronald Reagan

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

American President

Gregg Wallace

Nothing beat that welcoming smell of fried food wafting into the hallway from the kitchen as I walked in from school as a kid.

Germaine Greer

Australia is a huge rest home, where no unwelcome news is ever wafted on to the pages of the worst newspapers in the world.

Australian Activist

Katharine Graham

One of my principal childhood memories is hearing one of the Liszt Hungarian Rhapsodies waft throughout the house.

American Businesswoman

Nnedi Okorafor

I see the world as a magical place. Therefore, it was only natural that magic wafted from my fiction like smoke.

Nigerian Writer

Caroline Gordon

A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.

American Writer

Wendy Whelan

I love that moment of, 'Remember when?' I love to waft.

American Dancer

Think of 'waft' as describing movements that are light and airy, often pleasant.

Gentle Movement

'Waft' is used primarily for things that don't have solid form, such as smells or sounds.

Immaterial Things

When using 'waft', imagine something that moves effortlessly, without haste.

Slow and Easy

Use 'waft' when you want to identify where a smell or sensation is coming from.

Originating Source

'Waft' suggests a passive spreading of a smell, without deliberate aid.

Passive Dispersal

Used as a noun, a 'waft' conveys a brief, fleeting encounter with a sensation.

Transient Presence

The noun form of 'waft' often describes something delicate and insubstantial.

Light and Flimsy

A 'waft' can refer to a smell that's just barely detected, suggesting subtlety.

Subtle Perception

Think of 'waft' as a quick sensation that comes and goes; it doesn't linger.

Brief Whiff

 These white pearlescent flakes hit the noodles, this haunting, wonderful, nutty, mushroomy smell wafted up. 10 seconds passed and it was gone. And then I was left with these little ugly flakes on my pasta that, you know, their purpose had been served, and so I'm afraid to say that this was also a disappointment to me.

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 Our armpits, nipples, and pubic areas are dotted with apocrine glands. They produce oily, smelly secretions which the thick, curly hair that often grows in these spots helps disperse. The secretions that waft off these hairy patches may be useful for identification.

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 in order to bring about a specific change. To find its targets, it’s helped along by receptors, which are special proteins inside or on the cell’s surface. Those receptors recognise specific hormones as they waft by, and bind to them. When this happens,

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 From this, we can detect an extraordinary number of things. We can see the calcium from the world's deserts, soot from distant wildfires, methane as an indicator of the strength of a Pacific monsoon, all wafted on winds from warmer latitudes

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 I'm afraid we've kind of given up on our cheater simply because we don't want to miss the Lions waking up from the Cubs and end up with a TV show wafting a spotlight around there's nothing to see never be hopeless there's a beautiful zebra

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 Some of the foul-smelling byproducts of these reactions, such as hydrogen sulfide and cadaverine, escape into the air and waft their way towards unsuspecting noses. Our sensitivity to these odors and interpretation of them as bad smells

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 characteristic sort of face to him what did you see darling water buck suddenly realized that there's something over here the wind is wafting over to them in that direction okay so yeah this one okay that is the oldest line yes so very

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 detect an extraordinary number of things we can see the calcium from world's deserts soot from distant wildfires methane is an indicator the strength of Pacific monsoon all wafted on winds from warmer latitudes to this remote from

Inside an Antarctic time...

 bird sounds wafting through the windows is where everything comes together so i'm using a combination of that original uh rough sketch that i did which in which i sort of noted all of the important

The Secret Life of...

 But out on the flats, the scent of dying snail wafts away on the tide. It's a scent that these hermit crabs are partial to. It's vital that the crabs have the best possible protection