He must have caught at least a whiff of it.
One of my people looked it over and caught a whiff.
At that same moment she caught a whiff of smoke.
Once you caught a whiff of it, your nose remembered.
They immediately caught a whiff of something that smelled very bad.
She lifted a can to her mouth and I caught a whiff of beer.
She was standing close to him, he caught a whiff of expensive perfume.
Breathing in, I also caught a whiff of something burning.
He stood under the broken window, catching an interesting whiff.
I caught a whiff again of the fires burning on the island.
We don't want anyone to get even a faint whiff of what's going on.
Before a person had to stand in line for an hour and a half just to get a whiff of fresh air.
Just in case he's gets a whiff of it, you know.
He'd often gotten a whiff of it when the wind was from the west.
Only this time he hadn't gotten such a big whiff of it.
I think the Times has got a whiff of this.
It was too late by the time he got a good whiff.
His eyes were a little wide, and I got a whiff not of fear but something close to it.
Every now and then I got a whiff of politics.
"It wouldn't stop anything that got a whiff of you and really wanted to come in."
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