whiff

There were stories of distant strife, in Bosnia, Rwanda, and Northern Ireland, and those stories had the whiff of a different era.

Griswold was undeniably an incursion on democratic powers with a definite whiff of activism.

Nobody should waste their time penning letters that any pediatrician with a whiff of insight will ignore.

I stepped off the plane, caught that first groggy whiff of jet fuel and my body instantly registered where I was.

But alongside all the true-fandom, a whiff of regret lingers.

Then I caught a whiff of burning wood and in ten minutes I was reconnoitering a tiny glade.

The next instant he caught a whiff of smoke and saw it rising in a dense cloud through the trees.

A whiff of foreign smell and a sound of foreign speech reached the passengers at about the same moment.

At last the fire of the corsair ceased, and a whiff of air carried away the smoke.

Then when he caught a faint whiff of the game, he would stop short, and look around, and wag his tail.