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.

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 Meanings and Examples of SNIFF
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
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.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER ONE
2  "It's for Belle, of course, George always sends her some, but these are altogether ravishing," cried Annie, with a great sniff.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER NINE
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.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
4  Then she caught herself with a sniff at her own absent-mindedness.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
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.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: IV
6  And Boxer put out his nose to sniff at the bank-notes, and the flimsy white things stirred and rustled in his breath.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
7  On seeing him lying still the creature had probably approached to sniff at him, but finding him dead had turned away again.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15. A Retrospection
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.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
9  Mrs. Heep, with a prodigious sniff, resumed her knitting.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 39. WICKFIELD AND HEEP
10  This moustache was obviously perfumed, it was almost tempting to come close to it and sniff.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In Chapter Nine In the Cathedral
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.