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It also isn’t uncommon for wildfire smoke from the U.S. to waft into Canada.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

I inhale, letting new smells — something minty and palo santo-y, maybe? — waft over me.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 27, 2026

With movement, their vertical skirt layers waft open, like the turning pages of a book.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2025

Singaporean poet Hsien Min Toh's poem, Durians, opens by referring to the fruit's "unmistakeable waft: like garbage and onions and liquid petroleum gas all mixed in one".

From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2024

Uncles in aprons start up the grills, and delicious smells waft through.

From "The House That Lou Built" by Mae Respicio

The scent of Mexican spiced coffee brewed in a clay pot wafts through the front room.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026

"Life is short as a drying drop of water. Don't be sad," a singer's voice wafts into the street.

From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026

For years, millions of dollars have poured into controlling dust that wafts off the exposed lake shoreline of the Salton Sea, hoping to solve a serious air pollution problem in the Coachella and Imperial valleys.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2025

Then she pulls out a fancy perfume bottle and wafts it under her nose, inhaling a chemical approximation of the scented flora surrounding them.

From Salon ● Mar. 24, 2025

Jason holds up a bag of food, grinning at me as the smell of fries from my favorite diner a block away from our school wafts down the hallway, trying to reel me in.

From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott

The Dodgers had lost Saturday, so the sounds of “California Stars” wafted through Dodger Stadium.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026

The smell of manure and dirt wafted in the humid air.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026

Mr. Williams, a chef based in New York, was born and raised in a beachside village on St. Vincent, where the smell of kitchen smoke often wafted in the breeze.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

Tse Yuk-wa, who lived on the third floor near where the fire is believed to have started, said smoke wafted into her kitchen but she initially assumed it was dust from the construction.

From Barron's ● Mar. 24, 2026

The smell that wafted up to me almost made my knees buckle.

From "The Honest Truth" by Dan Gemeinhart

Growing up in southwest France, where her father made wine and her mother operated a bed-and-breakfast, Ms. de Ferrier enjoyed how the fragrance of the château’s garden swirled with the scents wafting from the kitchen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

The smell of dill wafting through the air.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2026

In 2022, Melbourne declared the smell of Vegemite wafting from a factory in the city a "significant" aspect of the city's cultural heritage.

From BBC ● Nov. 18, 2025

The acrid smoke wafting from burning waste in her neighbourhood in Nigeria's biggest city, Lagos, made it hard to breathe.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2025

Misha, on the other hand, had a few wafting up from him.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack