When Martha reopened the bottle of wine from the previous week's party, a vinegary whiff indicated that drinking it was out of the question.

He has the job not because of talent, but because his dad pulled strings with the boss.

[…] he commits what to a hardened puzzler seems an unforgivable sin when he uses a picture of a two-masted ship followed by HTER for the word BRIGHTER.

Two pulls at once; / His lady banished, and a limb lopped off.