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How to use sniffed in a sentence

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They organised games and refreshments and raised money as well, which is not to be sniffed at.
The dog sniffed at each of them in turn, wagged his huge tail, and gave a booming bark of satisfaction.
They picked up items that lay strewn across the small control panel and sniffed at them.
He sniffed at the plate, determining by scent in which sequence to push the buttons.
He picked it up, sniffed at it, and brought it as close to his eye as he could.
She sniffed wearily at the smell of smoke, sweat and beery farts and opened the window.
A hairless hand scooped the slabs up and raised them to the face as the creature sniffed at the steaks.
The smaller one picked them up, sniffed at them, and then glanced around suspiciously.
His large snout sniffed at the air, and he bowed graciously, his large ears flopping.
Angel sniffed at my hand, then climbed up my arm and started sniffing at my face.
The two mongrel dogs skulked to her side and sniffed at the hem of her dress.
The predator sniffed at her prey once more, suddenly doubting that she had caught a genuine mate.
The girl sniffed at them and swept off to find someone less boyish to play with.
He leaned over the pot and sniffed appreciatively as the smell of lamb reached his pointed nose.
Rather than give an answer, the major sniffed the air, heavy with the scent of cooking.
He pulled back the piece of cloth that swathed his sunburnt head, and sniffed the air.
The snow tiger seemed edgy, and she sniffed the air as if searching for something.
The wolf turned his head as he sniffed the air, catching the scent of man in his nostrils.
He sniffed around in an attempt to find something to do, as his mistress was still asleep.
Second, while crooked execs may have fooled analysts, the media, and the public, the market sniffed them out.
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Examples from Classical Literature
When smither, creaking with excitement, had left him, Soames entered the dining-room and sniffed.
They were still comically stiff-legged and bristly as they aloofly sniffed noses.
As he stepped into the familiar entrance-hall, Bryce paused, raised his head and sniffed suspiciously, like a bird-dog.
Aggie sniffed vehemently in rebuke of the gross partiality of fate in his behalf.
Then he sniffed as if the air contained an odor that was displeasing to him.
The Child sniffed at therapeutics, chewed a thumb, and wailed for her Betsy.
How was he to know that this thing that sniffed was a thing at which to bristle?
And anon he sniffed with his nostrils for a scent of violets, for a wafture from the grave, which came not.
Keeping along near the fence, she sniffed the tussocky, uneven grass with practised nose.
Mamma Pepperall watched him cavort a moment, then sniffed contemptuously, and rolled out like a fireman summoned.
He lifted his head and sniffed the flaccid air, which was laden with a heavy odour.
Mowgli told him all his adventures from beginning to end, and Bagheera sniffed at the ankus between whiles.
Gypsy would have nothing to do with her, and sniffed the air with offended dignity.
Again the man sniffed the dead air and, swinging the rifle into the crook of his elbow, continued toward the grub-shack.
This was hewing close to the line, and Mormon glared at him while the spinster sniffed.
Aggie sniffed, as if such an outcome were the merest bagatelle.
Major White, with his delicate sense of smell, sniffed the breeze.
Poor souls, sniffed Keturah, nothin could satisfy ye, Deborah.
Pedro and macduff sniffed the September air and gloried in it.
But Aunt Kate sniffed at the untidy kitchen and living-room.
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