Synonym: fume, odor, scent, smell. Similar words: chiffon, chiffonier, shift, shifty, makeshift, shiftless, riff, iffy. Meaning: [hwɪf ,w-] 
n. 1. a short light gust of air 2. a lefteye flounder found in coastal waters from New England to Brazil 3. a strikeout resulting from the batter swinging at and missing the ball for the third strike. v. 1. perceive by inhaling through the nose 2. drive or carry as if by a puff of air 3. strike out by swinging and missing the pitch charged as the third 4. smoke and exhale strongly 5. utter with a puff of air.
n. 1. a short light gust of air 2. a lefteye flounder found in coastal waters from New England to Brazil 3. a strikeout resulting from the batter swinging at and missing the ball for the third strike. v. 1. perceive by inhaling through the nose 2. drive or carry as if by a puff of air 3. strike out by swinging and missing the pitch charged as the third 4. smoke and exhale strongly 5. utter with a puff of air. 
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31) Instead of music we offered honest talk and a whiff of freedom.
32) However, the Scribe has caught a whiff of success and further sightings of Colin Chapmans will be gratefully received.
33) Not the whiff of scandal; we played that down, wrongly, as it turned out.
34) But the whiff of a peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich makes my stomach quail. Eat peanuts or suffer death-by-a-thousand cut5?
35) The air outside was colder now and it seemed to me that I caught a whiff of snow in the air.
36) Inside, a faint whiff of disinfectant was almost overpowered by the heavy scent emanating from bowls of blue hyacinths.
37) If he had been, he'd have moved away double quick because the slightest whiff of orange triggers off his migraine.
38) Standing so close he smelt the fusty clothes and a sour whiff on the old man's breath.
39) But lately he'd been concealing this whiff with his favourite aftershave, Rampage.
40) The truth is that a whiff of counter-revolution is hard to find - dismaying though that may be for party propagandists.
41) There's not a politician in the world we could buy off if they got a whiff of it.
42) This would not matter much, were it not for a whiff of sulphur from other Virgin companies.
43) From the doorway, I got a whiff of freshly baked bread.
44) She homed in on it like an eager bee catching a whiff of the first rich blooms of summer.
45) I caught a whiff of roast beef as I walked past the kitchen.
46) Snow was involved in a whiff of controversy about some experimental results obtained in the 1930s.
47) Lisa passed so close to Paul that he got a whiff of her perfume.
48) The rocky start was caused by traders who thought they detected a whiff of inflation in the air.
49) They further confused the tone of a piece that had about it the whiff of 1970s radical agitprop.
50) First popularized in the 1920s, they still bring a whiff of Hollywood glamour to both home and fashion.
51) A sniff of tea, a whiff of biscuits, and there would soon be a crowd.
52) Travelling to the Continent now I feel a gloomy foreboding, for there is a whiff of decline in the air.
53) But even carefully built evenings can not avoid the whiff of compilation.
54) You almost never catch a whiff of authorial self-consciousness.
55) I sat in the balcony of my house thinking about the beautiful redbud tree that was there, and the whiff of wet mud refreshed my memories again.
56) I sat in the balcony of my house thinking about the beautiful redbud tree that was there, and the whiff of wet mud refreshed my memories again. I still remember that day.
57) Having picked up nine of the 14 gold medals on offer in one of the Games' crown jewel sports, any whiff of a scandal would be damaging for the Olympic hosts during the Games.
58) Every time you come near them you get a whiff of their cologne.
59) The court may be surprised to learn that the snowman’s past contains a whiff of anti-Semitism.
60) Rosalie: Get a whiff of that. Here comes the human.