Waft
verb
To move gently or smoothly through the air.
The smell of cooking wafted up from the kitchen.
Often appears as...
- waft across
- waft through
verb
To send or let out (a smell) or (of a smell) be sent or let out.
The smell of roses wafted from the garden.
Often appears as...
- waft out
- waft from
noun
A gentling floating or moving from one place to another.
There was a waft of perfume as she passed.
Often appears as...
- waft of perfume
- waft of air
noun
A smell that is smelt briefly and from a distance.
I caught a waft of her perfume.
Often appears as...
- waft of scent
- get a waft
verb
To move gently or smoothly through the air.
The smell of cooking wafted up from the kitchen.
Often appears as...
- waft across
- waft through
verb
To send or let out (a smell) or (of a smell) be sent or let out.
The smell of roses wafted from the garden.
Often appears as...
- waft out
- waft from
noun
A gentling floating or moving from one place to another.
There was a waft of perfume as she passed.
Often appears as...
- waft of perfume
- waft of air
noun
A smell that is smelt briefly and from a distance.
I caught a waft of her perfume.
Often appears as...
- waft of scent
- get a waft
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Gentle Movement
Think of 'waft' as describing movements that are light and airy, often pleasant.
Music wafted through the open windows.
Pro Tip 2/3Immaterial Things
'Waft' is used primarily for things that don't have solid form, such as smells or sounds.
The sound of laughter wafted from the party.
Pro Tip 3/3Slow and Easy
When using 'waft', imagine something that moves effortlessly, without haste.
The fog wafted across the harbor as the sun rose.
Pro Tip 1/3Gentle Movement
Think of 'waft' as describing movements that are light and airy, often pleasant.
Music wafted through the open windows.
Pro Tip 2/3Immaterial Things
'Waft' is used primarily for things that don't have solid form, such as smells or sounds.
The sound of laughter wafted from the party.
Pro Tip 3/3Slow and Easy
When using 'waft', imagine something that moves effortlessly, without haste.
The fog wafted across the harbor as the sun rose.
Pro Tip 1/3Gentle Movement
Think of 'waft' as describing movements that are light and airy, often pleasant.
Music wafted through the open windows.
Pro Tip 2/3Immaterial Things
'Waft' is used primarily for things that don't have solid form, such as smells or sounds.
The sound of laughter wafted from the party.
Pro Tip 3/3Slow and Easy
When using 'waft', imagine something that moves effortlessly, without haste.
The fog wafted across the harbor as the sun rose.
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Benjamin Wallace: The...
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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Why do we have hair in...
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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How do your hormones...
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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Lee Hotz: Inside an...
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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Safari Live - Day 253 PIPE...
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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What causes bad breath?...
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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Safari Live - Day 340 PIPE...
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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Inside an Antarctic time...
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
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The Secret Life of...
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
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Giant Horse Conch &...
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
Video examples
Benjamin Wallace: The...
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.
Video examples
Why do we have hair in...
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.
Video examples
How do your hormones...
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,
Video examples
Lee Hotz: Inside an...
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
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 253 PIPE...
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
Video examples
What causes bad breath?...
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
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 340 PIPE...
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
Video examples
Inside an Antarctic time...
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
Video examples
The Secret Life of...
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
Video examples
Giant Horse Conch &...
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
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Anoushka Shankar
British Musician
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.
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Honeysuckle Weeks
British Actress
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.
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Cat Deeley
English Celebrity
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.
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Ronald Reagan
American President
Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.
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Gregg Wallace
English Celebrity
Nothing beat that welcoming smell of fried food wafting into the hallway from the kitchen as I walked in from school as a kid.
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Germaine Greer
Australian Activist
Australia is a huge rest home, where no unwelcome news is ever wafted on to the pages of the worst newspapers in the world.
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Katharine Graham
American Businesswoman
One of my principal childhood memories is hearing one of the Liszt Hungarian Rhapsodies waft throughout the house.
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Nnedi Okorafor
Nigerian Writer
I see the world as a magical place. Therefore, it was only natural that magic wafted from my fiction like smoke.
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Caroline Gordon
American Writer
A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.
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Wendy Whelan
American Dancer
I love that moment of, 'Remember when?' I love to waft.
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Anoushka Shankar
British Musician
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.
Quote examples
Honeysuckle Weeks
British Actress
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.
Quote examples
Cat Deeley
English Celebrity
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.
Quote examples
Ronald Reagan
American President
Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.
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Gregg Wallace
English Celebrity
Nothing beat that welcoming smell of fried food wafting into the hallway from the kitchen as I walked in from school as a kid.
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Germaine Greer
Australian Activist
Australia is a huge rest home, where no unwelcome news is ever wafted on to the pages of the worst newspapers in the world.
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Katharine Graham
American Businesswoman
One of my principal childhood memories is hearing one of the Liszt Hungarian Rhapsodies waft throughout the house.
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Nnedi Okorafor
Nigerian Writer
I see the world as a magical place. Therefore, it was only natural that magic wafted from my fiction like smoke.
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Caroline Gordon
American Writer
A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.
Quote examples
Wendy Whelan
American Dancer
I love that moment of, 'Remember when?' I love to waft.
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