SNIFF in a Sentence
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12 example sentences for SNIFF, such as:
1. One sniff of this is enough to kill you.
2. Mrs. Heep, with a prodigious sniff, resumed her knitting.
3. A police dog, trained to sniff out explosives, found evidence of a bomb in the apartment.
4. This moustache was obviously perfumed, it was almost tempting to come close to it and sniff.
5. On seeing him lying still the creature had probably approached to sniff at him, but finding him dead had turned away again.
2. Mrs. Heep, with a prodigious sniff, resumed her knitting.
3. A police dog, trained to sniff out explosives, found evidence of a bomb in the apartment.
4. This moustache was obviously perfumed, it was almost tempting to come close to it and sniff.
5. On seeing him lying still the creature had probably approached to sniff at him, but finding him dead had turned away again.
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Meanings and Examples of SNIFF
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sniff
v. inhale audibly through the nose
n. sensing an odor by inhaling through the nose
Classic Sentence:
1 "I don't think it's fair for some girls to have plenty of pretty things, and other girls nothing at all," added little Amy, with an injured sniff.
2 "It's for Belle, of course, George always sends her some, but these are altogether ravishing," cried Annie, with a great sniff.
3 I tried both ways, and when it came to a sniff or utter mortification and woe, he just threw the grammar on to the floor and marched out of the room.
4 Then she caught herself with a sniff at her own absent-mindedness.
5 He sat beside her on the couch and behaved very well until the Polish violin-teacher across the hall began to practise, when Prince would growl and sniff the air with disgust.
6 And Boxer put out his nose to sniff at the bank-notes, and the flimsy white things stirred and rustled in his breath.
7 On seeing him lying still the creature had probably approached to sniff at him, but finding him dead had turned away again.
8 But she went back to the house and when she sat down close to Colin's bed he began to sniff as Dickon did though not in such an experienced way.
9 Mrs. Heep, with a prodigious sniff, resumed her knitting.
10 This moustache was obviously perfumed, it was almost tempting to come close to it and sniff.
Example Sentence:
1 A police dog, trained to sniff out explosives, found evidence of a bomb in the apartment.
2 One sniff of this is enough to kill you.