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waft

verb as in carry

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Those sounds and smells wafted through that side of the building, but if I had lived in a single-family home, they may have come through my window — yikes!

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“If I get low enough, there will be a waft of methane,” he said.

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The smell of herbs and spices wafting through the corridors seems to suggest they are not the only ones who feel this way.

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On a recent morning, a sour-sweet stench wafted in the air, and a blanket of flies settled on the ground near the spilled produce boxes that amass after weeks of neglect.

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But that did little to allay the concerns of Dermish and his neighbors, who continued to see flares light up the sky and to smell gas wafting over the community.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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