The band, which to his eyes was a mere party of adventurers, gone forth to seek their fortune beyond the seas, appears to the reader as the germe of a great nation wafted by Providence to a predestined shore.
But little is committed to writing, and that little is wafted away for ever, like the leaves of the sibyl, by the smallest breeze.
They would fain have returned to the ship, but the breeze blowing out of the cavern wafted them far from their comrades, and they therefore bent all their energies to the task of getting home again.
From distant cloisters came wafted the echoes of singing priestesses breathing their intoxicating Amens.
I heard wafted from the mysterious temple the refrain of thousands of voices chanting a ritual of love and peace.
The sound of a clock striking came waftedfaintly across from the shore.
Beyond the gardens lay the sleeping lake, and faint little airs waftedcoolly upward from its surface, tempering the heat of the evening.
The railway man was shouting something about watered stock, and his babbling was wafted up to us.
The chamberlain, with an ineffable gesture, wafted the taxi-cab away into some limbo appointed for waiting vehicles.
The menial of the lift bowed, wafted him downwards and bowed.
Nothing occurred the first night, but shortly after midnight on the second the sound of a motor-boat was wafted over the water to Lieutenant Winters and Tom, who were doing guard duty.
About eleven-thirty Pod heard the soft splash of oars, mingled with the sound of voices, wafted indistinctly to him over the water.
He caused a wind to blow that wafted the sweet scents of Paradise toward Moses' paschal lamb, and the fragrance penetrated to all parts of Egypt, to the distance of a forty days' journey.
By a providential dispensation they carried bags of perfumery this time, instead of their usual ill-smelling freight, that sweet fragrance might be wafted to Joseph on his journey to Egypt.
As he spoke the clamor and tread of men of the town racing to the chase were wafted to them on the night wind, drawing nearer and nearer; Rake drew the reins tight in his hand in fury.
The plains were covered with a coat of green, and the wild flowers of the prairie, blooming in all their variety, sent forth a perfume which mingled with every zephyr, and wafted sweet odors on every breeze.
At this I was afraid, and I wafted myself up by the power of the Spirit, and sat in the top of a tall tree.
Verily, the breezes of forgiveness have been wafted from the direction of your Lord, the God of Mercy; whoso turneth thereunto, shall be cleansed of his sins, and of all pain and sickness.
I was but a man like others, asleep upon My couch, when lo, the breezes of the All-Glorious were wafted over Me, and taught Me the knowledge of all that hath been.
And yet, when the fragrance of His coming was wafted over them, and His beauty was unveiled, they turned aside from Him and disputed with Him.
Wherefore, the breeze of My loving-kindness wafted forth, and the sea of My mercy surged, and We answered thee in truth.
The fragrances of the All-Merciful have wafted over all creation.
At another, We address the people of the Evangel and say: ‘The All-Glorious is come in this Name whereby the Breeze of God hath wafted over all regions.
Exclaim'd the now exulting fair; "I see him wafted to the bank, His cradle form'd by heavenly care!
The high note of color was repeated in the pink sunshade which lay open where the wind had wafted it to the feet of the piping Pan.
Her letters remain--the little friendly letters which came from her pen like balls of silvery down from a sun-ripened plant, and were wafted far and wide over the land to those she loved.
A dainty Sedan with a woman's idle face at its window wafted by.
That night, Warble, her hands behind her, waftedinto Petticoat's room.
She pressed her fingers to her lips and wafted a little kiss toward us with a gesture indescribably graceful and pathetic.
And like Frau Nirlanger, I wafted a little kiss in his direction, before I allowed the bend in the stairs to cut off my view.
The theme was evidently their passenger; and this was the substance of the conversation which the wind wafted through the darkness.
It was not long before the fame of the colored soldiers of America was wafted over the whole world, and was everywhere received by all lovers of freedom with most hearty applause.
The news of the tide of the exodus from the murderous sections of the Sunny South was swiftly wafted all over the land, and even crossed the broad Atlantic to mother England.
A restless cat no more remains in the same place than a silk thread does which is wafted idly to and fro with every breath of air.
Then, by degrees, he raised his aching head and inhaled the perfumed air, as it was wafted in gentle gusts across his uplifted face.
These barks, these floating-houses, arewafted to and fro by the changing winds.
The loosened petals of the blackberry bloom drifted before him like snowflakes wafted by the south wind.
On that wet March morning there was no flutter of a little white apron, no sign of a wafted kiss.
As a feather is wafted downward From an eagle in its flight.
The blue smoke rose up like clouds among the dark trees, and was wafted far away across the water; and the hunting dogs came--splash, splash!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wafted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
