1.   A breeze, carrying hints of pine and wet grass along with car fumes, sent litter scuttling across Central Park.

2.   But even this tame outing carried a hint of danger.

3.   But Noonan, in dramatizing a story that carries a hint of romantic disappointment, generates disappointment of another kind.

4.   In Massachusetts, the acquisition of Compaq carries a hint of bitter irony.

5.   It was still pitch dark outside, but already the velvety morning carried a hint of the sultry summer heat that would come with the sun.

6.   Or that the effort to drape an essentially parochial event in the trappings of grandeur can sometimes carry a hint of absurdity.

7.   They live in poor soils that are often wet, where water carries away any hint of food.

8.   Thick clouds, pounding surf, a few raindrops and a rising wind carried hints of what might come.

9.   They were hot and rich, the sharp edge of red pepper offset by mellow coconut, and they carried a hint of the sea.

10.   A National Association of Purchasing Managers index of manufacturing growth fell but carried hints of inflation.