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How to pronounce waft in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms pennant, pennon, streamer
Type of flag
Has types pennoncel, pennoncelle, penoncel
Type Words
Type of float, be adrift, blow, drift


Sounds wafted into the room.
Type Words
Type of blow


A breeze wafted through the door.

Examples of waft

waft
Waft gently with your hand and place into a waiting tinder bundle of dry grass.
From the thisisbristol.co.uk
Her baby clothes waft around her and out of the picture like an aura of power.
From the washingtonpost.com
Today verses from the Koran waft from a dozen open windows in the town of Bethany.
From the time.com
Fetid smells of garbage, dirty water and wet cloth waft through the corridors.
From the suntimes.com
A maiden with nothing to hit, and a wifty waft nearly sees Raina get an edge.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Better still, Mr Sarkozy seems unafraid of the ideas that waft across the Atlantic.
From the economist.com
Occasionally, the poisons waft ashore to fill clinics with coughing patients.
From the economist.com
We settled into our cushy window table with the waft of thyme-scented rolls.
From the thenewstribune.com
Melodies waft about like tropical breezes, blowing a little irony in all directions.
From the time.com
More examples
  • Be driven or carried along, as by the air; "Sounds wafted into the room"
  • Pennant: a long flag; often tapering
  • Blow gently; "A breeze wafted through the door"
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  • Waft is a term meaning to carry along gently as through the air. The term is commonly used to describe scents that have diffused in to other parts of a room, or to describe smoke as being seen moving through the air. ...
  • A light breeze; Something (a scent or odor), such as a perfume, that is carried through the air; A flag, (also called a waif or wheft), used to indicate wind direction or, with a knot tied in the center, as a signal; to cause to float easily or gently through the air
  • (wafting) An instance of wafting; the action of something that wafts
  • (wafts) float gently; to float gently through the air
  • Moving the hand in a wave-like motion over a substance causing a breeze which carries a faint odor of the substance.