When whiffing near the shore, care must be taken to avoid outlying rocks that approach the surface of the water, or a sudden snapping of the line will give you an unwelcome warning of their existence.
Our friends now whiffed and puffed away together--whiffing and puffing where whiffing and puffing had never been known before.
And he sat back whiffing his pipe and gazing in space.
Such a whiffing of pipes among the stately, half-drunk Indian chiefs you never saw, with a pompous proffering of the stem to the four corners of the compass, which they thought would propitiate the spirits.
Then he went cautiously round his prison, whiffing the sides, rearing up on the log walls.
Probably he was whiffing the trunks of the trees roundabout, looking up eagerly into them.
He walked round the room, whiffing this object and that; then he lay down at the foot of the bed.
We're just whiffing over that delightful little ghostly bayou you fell in love with; and heading so as to pass above the region from which we heard that unseen ship settle down.
Besides, I've a feeling this town wont be big enough to hold both us, and that cub of a reporter, and keep him from whiffing some of our secrets with that inquisitive nose of his.
While these are whiffing away at a distance from the fire, a mystery man, who sits nearer to the flame, smokes a longer pipe, grunting at the same time a kind of tune.
They then shall seek to taste the brew and sniff the whiffing o’ the scent; ayea, and stop alonger that they feast!
Here is an example: Whiff, sayeth the wind, And whiffing on its way, doth blow a merry tale.
He himself was whiffing away at a cigarrito, and was as polite and politic, as a noted New York ex-M.
It was the threshing season, and in many places we saw them treading out their wheat and barley by mules, with a Greaser on the back of each, lazily whiffing his cigarrito, while his donkey dozed around.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "whiffing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
