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Opossum shrimps play an important part in the estuarine food chain and are consumed in large quantities by such fish as the striped bass, inland silverside, whiffs and flounders.
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The smoke spread very gradually as far as the crater of the volcano, while there were many whiffs issuing from points in the direction of another headland.
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The report has a whiff of exquisite patronage.
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I am sorry that late at night he should have caught a whiff from some very bad quarter and given voice to such monstrous sentiments.
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There is not a whiff of how they will operate.
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The biggest threat of all would be a whiff of a stage 2 with substance.
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The whiff of patronage cannot be entirely eradicated from a board that owes its appointment to favour.
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They will be blamed, and heavily blamed, for giving us a whiff of petty dictatorship.
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Let us remember that any woman who has a whiff of gas at any stage in the proceedings is counted as having analgesia in childbirth.
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We have an atmosphere reeking of deceit—the unmistakable whiff of under-arm aspirations.
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I think that there is more than a whiff of political correctness about those figures.
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Certainly the steel industry is breaking all records, but could not that reasonably be attributed to the whiff of freedom in the air?
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All we got was the whiff of incompetence and local corruption.
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Certainly in my university there has not been the whiff of a"demo"or a sit-in about this issue.
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The railway engineering industry began to suffer as soon as the whiff of privatisation was in the air.
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Does he feel that there might be a whiff of scandal and corruption in that?
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There is a slight whiff in all this that some law might follow on religious discrimination.
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However, because they do not want to create mass panic, there is a whiff of complacency in the air.
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We had an example last night—a whiff of incense—on religion, with spiritual this and spiritual that.
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I wonder if it is by chance that some of us have detected a slight whiff of fish in the air-conditioning system?
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I am glad that he was so keen to have a whiff of open government.
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Unfortunately, that whiff makes him and his family stink in the nostrils of society for the rest of his life.
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There was not a whiff of a suggestion about that.
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How have they managed that with the balance of payments figures heading sharply into the red—just the faintest whiff of a balance of payments crisis?
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In his speech we had a whiff of the "gloom and doom".
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The slightest whiff of public control is anathema to them.
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There is a whiff of hypocrisy in the air this morning.
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Is not there a whiff of corruption about that?
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The stability and growth pact, for instance, has more or less crumbled between our fingers at the first whiff of trouble.
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A whiff of old battles drifts over the debate from time to time.
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I detect a whiff of reaction here and there, but we shall deal with that when we come to it.
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I think that there is more than a whiff of humbug in all this.
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Nevertheless, there is here a whiff of deliberate moral inconsistency.
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Discipline, as measured against the merest whiff of dissent, is all.
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There was a whiff of complacency and inertia in the face of a fast deteriorating situation.
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There is not much of a whiff of the picket lines about that.
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I understand that earlier the timing went a little skew-whiff.
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The whiff of corruption and the desperate search for multimillionaire donors remain.
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He brought a whiff of reforming intolerance to the debate—an attitude much to be admired.
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There appears to be a strong whiff of appeasement in the air.
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I have found it exciting this morning: there has been a whiff of class struggle in the air.
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To hear a whiff of realism introduced from his corner is always agreeable.
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I am trying to get him reinstated, but that whiff of prison will cling to him for the rest of his life.
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Why not put them a little nearer where they could get a whiff of fresh sea air?
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Nothing destroys the credibility of such an organisation quicker than the mere whiff or suspicion of financial mismanagement.
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Anybody who has had a whiff of gas in any stage is counted in.
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I think there is a whiff of that in one or two places on the benches opposite.
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There is a whiff of humbug about some of the comments that have been made.
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Now there is not even a policy, not a whiff of a policy.
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As other speakers have said, it sounds very reasonable despite a slight whiff of moral superiority.
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A whiff of spray drift will not hurt anyone.
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There is a whiff of panic in the air, and that gets me.
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Therefore, there is a certain healthy whiff of unanimity of view expressed this evening.
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The motion appears to me to have a whiff of arrogance and absolutism.
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There was no whiff of an injunction at that stage.
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I see in it just the slightest whiff of ideology.
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There is in that a whiff of a means test.
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At the same time, there has been a whiff of hypocrisy.
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There has been more than a whiff of hypocrisy in the debate.
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There has been a whiff of the hustings about a number of speeches over the past five days.
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The way in which the arrangements for direct broadcasting by satellite have been promulgated has produced a whiff of scandal.
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Democracy and democracies will be regarded as weak-kneed arrangements that will give in at the first whiff of gunfire.
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The decline, if not of the rural population certainly of the agricultural population, has been going on ever since the first whiff of mechanisation.
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There is more than a whiff of arbitrariness about the use of the capping criteria and threshold.
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They will get a whiff of something that they do not like.
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They have a whiff of some type of political correctness about them.
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Let us not suddenly realise that the policy for the inner cities will be averted at the first whiff of potential bureaucratic opposition.
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There is a whiff of the hustings about it.
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The extent of the nostalgic whiff of folie de grandeur is still present and, of course, we all believe in the cause of world peace.
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In the next year it rose to £1.024 million, the year after to £2,525 million and in the final year to £4,461 million, without a whiff of oil increases.
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The traveller who fills his car with petrol may catch a whiff of country air and be under the impression that he has contracted the rural experience.
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Give them a whiff of grapeshot.
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I am afraid that, to a jury, that is not always taken as being uncorroborated in a technical sense; it has suggested a whiff of non-existent support.
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Reorganisation of this kind seldom evokes enthusiasm, because it looks far ahead and perhaps lacks the whiff of glamour that surrounds the pressing crises of the day.
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There has been more than a whiff of unpleasantness in the air—never a very nice smell—but despite this the amendment has come back from the other place a third time.
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They get a whiff of the town in their nostrils, and the village life, centred as it is around its church or chapel, seems tame by comparison.
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There is the whiff of gerrymandering.
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I use that word deliberately because there is a distinct whiff of playing the gender card against poor women and children when rich men seem to be immune to onslaught.
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Even the first whiff of concern about drugs dealing led to the police being called immediately, with sniffer dogs, and to the whole place being searched from top to bottom.
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He has gotten a whiff of something burning and food cooking when there was no source to explain this.
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None of his pitches have outstanding whiff rates, but the splitter is the highest at 31% since 2007.
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They wrote however, it all has the whiff of a clever publicity stunt.
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With a whiff of success, people change towards you.
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When he s at his best, we get songs that celebrate the working man and the country boy without a whiff of condescension or pandering.
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However, there seems to have been some whiff of scandal and it was rumoured that their first three children were illegitimate.
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They cut all sorts of capers and whiffed the meat as it slowly came to perfection with the seasoning penetrating to the bone.
There might seem to be a whiff of paradox here.
They are, in the first place, organisms, not blobs of solid matter with an added whiff of mentality or agency to liven them up.
The reader may be excused for sensing that all of this has a whiff of allegory to it.
More seriously, the book was and still is a memoir, carrying a strong whiff both of self-justification and of old scores being settled.
There is at least a whiff of ether here, the electromagnetic ether whose undulations were supposed to be the mechanical basis of electromagnetic phenomena.
A whiff of scandal was attached, and the audience expected to enjoy the frisson of contact with potentially inflammatory material.
Noses respond as if instinctively to stimuli, as, for example, when a whiff warns one away from the dangers of rancid food.
There is not a whiff of irony, let alone satire; feelings are indulged in, but they are hedged by brevity, danger, impermanence, the possibility of illusion.
While cynicism and nihilism are united in a suspicion of truth and a dislike of any whiff of idealism, the two are vastly different affective experiences.
There remains a faint whiff of scientism in the apparent reluctance of science and technology researchers to move away from some of the more cherished examples of the field.
The bother is not the falling off of new savings but an increase of withdrawals, because depositors have suddenly whiffed more profitable spheres of investment.
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Critics couldn't get enough of the young master, praising the whiffs of joy and fragrant freshness of his verse.
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His 14 home runs were overshadowed by the large number of whiffs.
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