SNUFF in a Sentence
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30 example sentences for SNUFF, such as:
1. He hurriedly took a pinch of snuff.
2. Take a pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over you in your example.
3. Another pretext would be her snuff, which would seem too dry or too damp or not rubbed fine enough.
4. Nay, I would even go so far as to say that to smoke a pipe is a healthier practice than to take snuff.
5. Can't see a candle gutter but its her heart that's melting, or snuff a wick without reciting all the names in Cupid's Calendar.
2. Take a pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over you in your example.
3. Another pretext would be her snuff, which would seem too dry or too damp or not rubbed fine enough.
4. Nay, I would even go so far as to say that to smoke a pipe is a healthier practice than to take snuff.
5. Can't see a candle gutter but its her heart that's melting, or snuff a wick without reciting all the names in Cupid's Calendar.
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Meanings and Examples of SNUFF
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snuff
v. sniff or smell inquiringly
n. the charred portion of a candlewick
Classic Sentence: (30 in 3 pages)
1 Can't see a candle gutter but its her heart that's melting, or snuff a wick without reciting all the names in Cupid's Calendar.
2 The old gentleman stopped, laid down his pen, and looked from Oliver to Mr. Limbkins; who attempted to take snuff with a cheerful and unconcerned aspect.
3 Having gone thus far, the two old gentlemen severally took snuff, and afterwards shook hands, according to their invariable custom.
4 Take a pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over you in your example.
5 Mycroft took snuff from a tortoise-shell box, and brushed away the wandering grains from his coat front with a large, red silk handkerchief.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
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6 Nay, I would even go so far as to say that to smoke a pipe is a healthier practice than to take snuff.
7 He hurriedly took a pinch of snuff.
8 She passed the valet, the snuff fell from the candle wick, and she saw Prince Andrew clearly with his arms outside the quilt, and such as she had always seen him.
9 Another pretext would be her snuff, which would seem too dry or too damp or not rubbed fine enough.
10 After these fits of irritability her face would grow yellow, and her maids knew by infallible symptoms when Belova would again be deaf, the snuff damp, and the countess' face yellow.
11 The fire had not then burnt unusually low, nor was the snuff of the candle very long; the candle, however, had been blown out.
12 As he now appeared in his doorway, towelling his hands, Wemmick got on his great-coat and stood by to snuff out the candles.
13 Mr. Micawber extended his hand to each of us in succession, and then covered his face with his pocket-handkerchief, which I think had more snuff upon it than he was aware of.
14 I was turned over to him now, and when I saw him take his snuff and let the business go, I regretted my aunt's thousand pounds more than ever.
15 That was mean of Wells to shoulder him into the square ditch because he would not swop his little snuff box for Wells's seasoned hacking chestnut, the conqueror of forty.
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