Sentences with phrase «good whiff of it»

So when kitty gets a good whiff of catnip, she might become energized, pouncing and tossing the toy in the air or start rolling, rubbing and flipping her body about.

In addition to the nausea you may feel when getting a good whiff of your pet's breath, there's scientific evidence that these same bacteria are associated with other health problems.

If you've caught a good whiff of CES, you know it smells like tablets.

We're helping you and your date get a good whiff of this luscious ingredient so you can truly have an unforgettable time together.

Her mother was about a thousand feet away and raised her head every now and then to get a good whiff of her cub.

Even the Meskins don't get a good whiff of it unless they stay around here.

Meanwhile the elite are so busy trumpeting that they're «for the authors» in this battle, they don't even see that they're trampling over the average foot soldier to get a better whiff of what the Big 5 are holding in front of their noses.

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It's just to say that we would all be better off if the executives quite generally saw it as their responsibility to make sure that their accounting practices stayed far from even the whiff of fraud or misrepresentation.

Now it works most of the time, but you have to be Johnny Be Good quick, these things brown in a heartbeat once they get a whiff of fresh O2.

A fiercely spiced ginger (as many fresh slices as you can manage), wildly tart lemon (one plump juiced fruit per cup; two's better), barely sweet (one tiny squeeze of honey; three for my kids) tisane is requisite around here, for any whiff of a sniffle.

I have a theory that teams who are forced to pick with less value do better in later rounds because they get good at it through practice and more focus on finding late round gems and diamonds in the rough — whereas teams with lots of high value picks naturally focus on the early round players where it's harder to whiff.

But Sharks got a little luckier (some huge whiffs by the Ducks, some very timely posts) and they did a better job of playing actual defense.

The slow and steady three - year drip of the decline in Arrieta's sinker, both in terms of velocity (95.3, 94.5, 92.2) and whiff percentage (7.75, 8.96, 6.15), as well as the decline in how often he goes to his slider / cutter (30 %, 19 %, 14 %) and the increase in how often hitters take it for balls (30 %, 35 %, 40 %).

Round 1: David «Flip» Wilson, Ereck Flowers, Eli «Mama's Boy» Apple, Prince «Of Zamunda» Amukamara Round 1 success: 7/11 Round 2: Marvin «Teligmann» Austin, Clint «Square Peg» Sintim, Reuben «Box of Rocks» Randle Round 2 success: 8/11 (his best round) Round 3: Chad Jones, Owa O - Diggy, Jay Bromley, Damontre Moore, Jayron Hosely, Jerrell «Rorshack» Jernigan, Ramses Barden, Travis «Lady» Beckum, Jay «That One Sack» Alford Round 3 success: 1/12 (his worst, and I'm putting Darian Thompson and Webb as zeros for now...) Round 4: Brian Kehl, Philip Dillard, James «Teddy» Brewer, Ryan «Start the» Nassib Round 4 success: 4/11 Round 5: Avery Moss, Mykkele Thompson, Nat Berhe, Devon Kennard, Cooper Taylor, Jon Goff, Mitch «Death Metal» Petrus, Rhett «Linebacker / RB hybrid» Bomar Round 5 success: 2/10 Round 6: Adam Koets, Andre Woodson, Robert Henderson, DeAndre Wright, Adrian Tracy, Greg Jones, Tyler Sash, Jaquian Williams, Matt McCants, Bennett Jackson, Geremy Davis, Jerrell Adams Round 6 success: 0/12 That's right — Jerry Reese whiffed 12 times at 6th round pickOf Zamunda» Amukamara Round 1 success: 7/11 Round 2: Marvin «Teligmann» Austin, Clint «Square Peg» Sintim, Reuben «Box of Rocks» Randle Round 2 success: 8/11 (his best round) Round 3: Chad Jones, Owa O - Diggy, Jay Bromley, Damontre Moore, Jayron Hosely, Jerrell «Rorshack» Jernigan, Ramses Barden, Travis «Lady» Beckum, Jay «That One Sack» Alford Round 3 success: 1/12 (his worst, and I'm putting Darian Thompson and Webb as zeros for now...) Round 4: Brian Kehl, Philip Dillard, James «Teddy» Brewer, Ryan «Start the» Nassib Round 4 success: 4/11 Round 5: Avery Moss, Mykkele Thompson, Nat Berhe, Devon Kennard, Cooper Taylor, Jon Goff, Mitch «Death Metal» Petrus, Rhett «Linebacker / RB hybrid» Bomar Round 5 success: 2/10 Round 6: Adam Koets, Andre Woodson, Robert Henderson, DeAndre Wright, Adrian Tracy, Greg Jones, Tyler Sash, Jaquian Williams, Matt McCants, Bennett Jackson, Geremy Davis, Jerrell Adams Round 6 success: 0/12 That's right — Jerry Reese whiffed 12 times at 6th round pickof Rocks» Randle Round 2 success: 8/11 (his best round) Round 3: Chad Jones, Owa O - Diggy, Jay Bromley, Damontre Moore, Jayron Hosely, Jerrell «Rorshack» Jernigan, Ramses Barden, Travis «Lady» Beckum, Jay «That One Sack» Alford Round 3 success: 1/12 (his worst, and I'm putting Darian Thompson and Webb as zeros for now...) Round 4: Brian Kehl, Philip Dillard, James «Teddy» Brewer, Ryan «Start the» Nassib Round 4 success: 4/11 Round 5: Avery Moss, Mykkele Thompson, Nat Berhe, Devon Kennard, Cooper Taylor, Jon Goff, Mitch «Death Metal» Petrus, Rhett «Linebacker / RB hybrid» Bomar Round 5 success: 2/10 Round 6: Adam Koets, Andre Woodson, Robert Henderson, DeAndre Wright, Adrian Tracy, Greg Jones, Tyler Sash, Jaquian Williams, Matt McCants, Bennett Jackson, Geremy Davis, Jerrell Adams Round 6 success: 0/12 That's right — Jerry Reese whiffed 12 times at 6th round picks.

Of whiffing on the fixable / obvious issues and instead putting an inordinate amount of blame and weight on the team's best playerOf whiffing on the fixable / obvious issues and instead putting an inordinate amount of blame and weight on the team's best playerof blame and weight on the team's best players.

If you're looking for a best - case scenario of a Hall of Famer who was completely dizzy in his debut, though, a combination of tools and whiffs and fear, it's Reggie Jackson.

Ryan's average of 9.35 whiffs per nine innings is the best ever, exceeding Koufax's 9.27.

If the core advice does get out there — to pediatricians, and allergists and parents — it may well keep (at least some) kids from having to grab an EpiPen after getting a whiff of peanut.

Since 1993 Marla Spivak, an entomologist at the University of Minnesota, has been breeding a strain of honeybee that can smell the rotting odor of American foulbrood, a bacterial infection, as well as the yeasty whiff of chalkbrood, a fungal disease; they can also detect parasitic varroa mite infestations in young bee pupae.

CURIOSITY, the beloved Mars rover, has taken a good, long whiff of Martian air, and found no hint of methane in the planet's atmosphere.

Even better than the real thing, the NIST synapse can fire much faster than the human brain — 1 billion times per second, compared to a brain cell's 50 times per second — using just a whiff of energy, about one ten - thousandth as much as a human synapse.

Well I tried this today and and as soon as the coconut started browning, I got a lovely whiff of a popcorn kinda smell.

Well there's nary a whiff of spring around these parts.

One simple whiff of a concentrated essential oil can almost instantaneously trigger our bodies into action, causing the production of feel - good neurotransmitters like serotonin and dopamine.

Of course there will always be classic scents that you recognize (Chanel No. 5) without a flicker of doubt in just a passing whiff and these scents have endured the test of time for a good reasoOf course there will always be classic scents that you recognize (Chanel No. 5) without a flicker of doubt in just a passing whiff and these scents have endured the test of time for a good reasoof doubt in just a passing whiff and these scents have endured the test of time for a good reasoof time for a good reason.

Made from grain leather with a «whiff» of suede, these leather work gloves combine the best out of two worlds.

Frank revels in the good fortune of his scam, but the troops catch a whiff of foul play.

There's such a good - natured heart beating beneath the cliches that it's easy to appreciate the film's willingness to poke gentle fun without a whiff of nastiness or judgment.

«Miles for Mary» doesn't have the outrageous flair of Christopher Guest's best films, but as with «Waiting for Guffman,» there's a strong bond of community — and also, a whiff of condescension.

Still, there's something about Grant's performance that carries the film; the whiff of anxiety and facile insincerity that fuels Grant's iconic turns in screwball comedies serves him well as the slightly askew Johnnie.

For 20th Century Women, Mills is inspired by his mother and, even though there's a whiff of Dorothea being a less eccentric version, it provides Annette Bening with one of her best roles in years and the result is a luminous performance.

But in this terrific production, directed with well - calibrated liveliness by Wayne Kasserman, even the clichés have a whiff of freshness about them.

«The Hundred - Foot Journey,» in fact, feels like a premium for PBS subscribers, with occasional whiffs of multicultural notions that never obscure a by - the - numbers, feel - good story.

They get a mere whiff of a good book in the air, and they pursue it.

In the context of the other air - cooled cars, the 993 had a whiff of the 991 about it, having apparently traded the fine tactility and «connectedness» exhibited by the best of its predecessors for prettier looks and greater all - round dynamic polish.

The latest 300 may well still just pull it off with its gangsta look — albeit softened after the updates to the original — but there is also now a faint whiff of gangnam style about it.

A good friend of mine, and a damn fine writer, who shall remain nameless lest the publisher that keeps him on the breadline gets a whiff of sulphur, has advocated on more than one occasion recently that like - minded writers should get together and set up a co-op, akin to the United Artists studio of early Hollywood lore.

It was extraordinary, able to discern the composition, maturity, and quality of cheese — and the Trencom noses had sniffed, whiffed, and judged the very best cheeses of the world.

If a hound dog catches a whiff of (or the sight of) a potential varmint, it may very well be off and running.

Well, this will either be an engaging bundle of firefighting or an absolute mass of hundreds of individual egos scrambling about aimlessly until a whiff of coordination mistakenly occurs.

Couple this with Ubisoft's upcoming toys - to - game title, Starlink: Battle Axis, and for better or worse, you might just start getting whiffs of the original Wii era, where plastic doodads and doohickeys and add ons were the name of the day.

What was once our beloved American West, the promised land of adventurers and sleepyheads at the end of the motorized Oregon Trail that was Route 66, where an explorer's spirit was put to good use by way of burning rubber and gasoline whiffs, is now a less magical place that somehow glows more fascinating because you only catch it in cracks of structure and moments of conversation, so it's never been more important; a rare, practically exotic essence drenched in seemingly endless sunshine.

Eva Rothschild is best - known for elegantly spiky sculpture with a whiff of sex shops and dark arts (leather was a favoured early material).

After a couple of weeks, blue crystals had grown over every surface, transforming an architectural space most of us wouldn't have looked at twice into an Aladdin's cave that — as in all the best fairytales — had more than a whiff of danger about it.

In a well - sourced investigation subtitled «From the Carolina Coast to the Kochs,» The Independent Weekly, a paper in Durham, North Carolina, noted that there was more than a whiff of fossil fuel barons and real estate interests in the sea level deniers» crusade.

It demands close attention to factual details that matter; a winnowing out of details that don't matter; a reliance on concrete facts coupled with a disavowal of breezy generalizations and characterizations; a building up of facts into step - by - step arguments from which conclusions naturally follow; the marshaling of reasons that will earn the respect even of an opposing audience; a dialectical approach in which countervailing facts and counterarguments are carefully disarmed; a defense not of the first positions you might take, but of the best ones; and, at least in your early development as a legal writer, a stripped - down style that contains not a whiff of ornate embellishment.

Employees must hit the alarm and notify counsel if there is a whiff of litigation, which should set in motion a repeatable, clear and well defined litigation strategy and preservation plan.

Android's first whiff of success came with the Amazon Kindle Fire, which featured a heavily modified version of Gingerbread, lots of content options and some relatively decent hardware.Priced at under $ 200 in the US, Amazon's slate sold well initially...

While that analogy is unfair, there's definitely a whiff of rush - job about the FFZero1, and well there might be, given it went from sketch to Las Vegas strip in 4 months.

There is a whiff of vested interest cloaked in the glad handing of good wishes for the industry in the coming year.