wafted

verb

past tense of waft
as in hovered
to rest or move along the surface of a liquid or in the air a feather wafted past us and settled on the grass

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Recent Examples of wafted In the corner of the mall occupied by the Cinemark Rave movie theater, the smell of butter wafted into a lobby with another dry fountain. — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Oct. 2026 The familiar scent of grilling merguez wafted through the air as Violette began to enumerate the system’s failures. — Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2026 Hall has many fond memories of working with founder Yves Saint Laurent, not least as the inaugural face of the brand’s Opium scent, which wafted across the set. — Joelle Diderich, Footwear News, 30 Sep. 2026 Inside of the Linc, the sweet smell of Chickie’s & Pete’s crab fries wafted, beers were poured, and rhinestone eye makeup set. — Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 20 Sep. 2026 Tendrils of smoke still wafted over the charred vessel by midday Thursday. — CBS News, 10 Sep. 2026 Tendrils of smoke still wafted over the charred vessel by midday. — ABC News, 9 Sep. 2026 Meanwhile top women’s seed Aryna Sabalenka complained when the smell of marijuana wafted from crowd to court. — Greg Cote september 6, Miami Herald, 6 Sep. 2026 Rarely has a film so resourcefully evoked the transportive but decidedly analog thrill of reading; rarely has the warmly musty smell of research libraries and archives somehow wafted with such sense-memory precision off a cinema screen. — Guy Lodge, Variety, 5 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wafted
  1. hovered
  2. floated
  3. sailed
  4. drifted
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  • Last year, global output for these complex machines hovered around just 9,600 units.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2026
  • As the military-style helicopter hovered above them, attendees from the rural, predominantly Latino community, began to get nervous.
    — Philip Wang, Time, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of hovered
Verb
  • Even after Bretton Woods collapsed and many currencies floated freely, the dollar continued to dominate.
    — Zongyuan Zoe Liu, Foreign Affairs, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Ryanair even floated the idea of charging to use the bathroom or getting rid of seats and having passengers stand, though neither took flight.
    — Alexandra Skores, CNN Money, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of floated
Verb
  • Needing 11 yards on fourth down to continue their drive and cut into a 23-7 Packers lead, Prescott narrowly avoided a sack before lofting a pass that sailed out the back of the end zone, not close to any particular Cowboys receiver.
    — Andrew Greif, NBC news, 19 Oct. 2026
  • Yet Lord Archer of Weston-super-Mare – senior Tory politician, former athlete, bestselling novelist and bon viveur – simply sailed on.
    — The Week UK, TheWeek, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of sailed
Verb
  • For the past 15 years, Ishmael Butler and his cast of collaborators have drifted further and further into the outer reaches, deconstructing and reassembling hip-hop, jazz, and kosmische conventions into sprawling, proggy rhapsodies.
    — Dash Lewis, Pitchfork, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Meta stock plunged after the hyperscaler drifted into negative free cash flow, while China entered bear market territory with Alibaba’s stock dropping 6%, as investors questioned the return on its AI investments.
    — Brendan Ruberry, semafor.com, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of drifted

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