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Example sentences for "whiffed"

Lexicographically close words:
whichever; whichsoever; whider; whie; whiff; whiffing; whiffletree; whiffling; whiffs; whil
  1. Arms are the one thing needful: with arms we are an unconquerable man-defying National Guard; without arms, a rabble to be whiffed with grapeshot.

  2. Kipper whiffed three times without making as much as a foul tip.

  3. Yet I know they regarded it in the nature of an accident, and not until I had whiffed him three times more in the same game did either Breck or the spectators arrive at the conviction that I had something on him.

  4. Again he saw a supposedly invincible fleet utterly destroyed, saw comrades whiffed out of existence in infinitesimal seconds.

  5. Great rents were torn through it by the stabbing beams of the flying forts, holes where ships and men had been whiffed into dust by the hundred.

  6. Superbly the tiny gnats that were the American planes plunged headlong at the hovering Leviathan of the air and were whiffed into nothingness.

  7. I was hardly out of sight of land, when a northern storm overtook me toward midnight; before I could think, the little sail was all but whiffed away, and the kayak upset.

  8. They whiffed me in at a broad gate that was opened by a flunky and we drove for another mile through the grounds far from the main road.

  9. Bonanza went off with a sound like an atom bomb in a telephone booth, and the slug whiffed between her arm and her body and drilled a crater in the plaster behind her.

  10. He then sank silently back in the easy-chair and whiffed and puffed all sorts of fantastic clouds and columns and corkscrews at his leisure.

  11. Our friends now whiffed and puffed away together--whiffing and puffing where whiffing and puffing had never been known before.

  12. They crossed themselves, and whiffed out a protective prayer or two.

  13. The savory smell of roasting meat whiffed into my tent and I heard the shrill laughter of the squaws preparing the hunters' feast.

  14. As I had no object in arousing their resentment, I heard their words without voicing my own suspicions and giving over the booty, whiffed pipes with them.

  15. And when Gargantua whiffed the great draught, they thought to have been drowned in his mouth, and the flood of wine had almost carried them away into the gulf of his stomach.

  16. A corner of the booth, three-foot concrete, had been sheared away, whiffed into nothingness!

  17. The ray, the blasting ray that whiffed into non-existence all that it touched, was the keynote.

  18. They would very likely be whiffed out in the mêlée.

  19. The skin had been whiffed into nothingness.

  20. Another, the princess and beauty of the tribe, a dirty belle of seventeen, resplendent in paint and feathers, was arrayed in much gorgeousness of beads and buckskin, and whiffed her cigarritos by the hour together.

  21. And now, when the hound came to this spot he stopped; he lifted his head and whiffed the rock the man had touched with his hand.

  22. Tail wagging, the dog whiffed the shovel, the ditch, the wagon.

  23. Frank met him as he got out of his car, looked up anxiously into his spectacled face, whiffed the strange-smelling satchel he carried, escorted him gravely up the steps.

  24. The blind dog raised his head and whiffed the air.

  25. He whiffed his cigar, and leaned his head on one side as he hearkened to the wisdom of experience; observing that his father put his practice into words and called it philosophy.

  26. Then she hurriedly tore the sketch into the smallest possible pieces, laid them in her hand, opened the window, and whiffed them away into the dark.

  27. He poured freely and drank deeply, and whiffed cigar after cigar nervously away.


  28. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "whiffed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.