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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of waft.

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Examples

  • The dangerous scent of oiled leather wafted from the boots when he examined them.

    A Good Place for Graves « A Fly in Amber 2010

  • A keening moan, like a siren song, wafted from a nearby garbage hill.

    Breakdown 2010

  • There was a large pit in the center of the cave, smoke still wafted from the embers.

    The Lady and the Dragon « A Fly in Amber 2009

  • The delicious smell of a venison roast wafted from the oven.

    A Mexico mountain feast 2008

  • But no white powder mixed with the black, and only wispy plumes of steam wafted from the fat, high smokestacks of the Sunnsy cement company (its name is from the Chinese shansui, or “mountain water”).

    China’s Silver Lining 2008

  • The slaughterhouse stench wafted from the open window.

    Friday Freebie: An excerpt from THE SEVEN – Brian Keene 2008

  • But no white powder mixed with the black, and only wispy plumes of steam wafted from the fat, high smokestacks of the Sunnsy cement company (its name is from the Chinese shansui, or “mountain water”).

    China’s Silver Lining 2008

  • The delicious smell of a venison roast wafted from the oven.

    A Mexico mountain feast 2008

  • But no white powder mixed with the black, and only wispy plumes of steam wafted from the fat, high smokestacks of the Sunnsy cement company (its name is from the Chinese shansui, or “mountain water”).

    China’s Silver Lining 2008

  • But no white powder mixed with the black, and only wispy plumes of steam wafted from the fat, high smokestacks of the Sunnsy cement company (its name is from the Chinese shansui, or “mountain water”).

    China’s Silver Lining 2008

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