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waft

verb as in carry

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In dark pockets of the universe, molecular clouds full of tiny dust particles host a veritable smorgasbord of odors, from wafts of sweet sugar to the rotten-egg stench of sulfur.

He caught a waft of methane and spotted a pile of corroded metal surrounding a hole that had once been an active well.

“At least it keeps the mosquitoes away,” one of my table-mates said, as we watched the swooshes of smoke waft into the Havana sky.

The smells waft through the shantytown of tents and tires known as the Maidan, the main square in Kiev.

The film is an amiable but formless waft through a 1950s British film set.

Bewitching scents waft from a stone vessel holding multicolored powders, herbs and seeds.

It needed only an exertion of will for the soul to hurl the body ashore as wind drives paper; to waft it kite-fashion to the bank.

It sufficed, however, to waft them into a little cove making into one of these islands at about two hours before noon.

She had a vague feeling that the boat should have been ready to waft them miraculously over star-lit seas.

A puff of wind brought them a waft of fainter odour from the wild violets which carpeted the woods.

But we link our wishes with whatsoever would gently waft us over.

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

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