Example Sentences

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Johnson has the only wins for the organization, but Elliott had been sniffing victory lane all season.

From Washington Post • Oct. 9, 2016

Until then, private investigators for insurance companies had been sniffing around the remains of burned-out houses, working the streets and doing undercover work in Boston bars with an eye out for well-known torches.

From Time Magazine Archive

At that moment a large Bulldog, who had been sniffing and staring very hard, said: “Look. Isn’t there another of these queer creatures—over there, beside the river, under the trees?”

From "The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis

The Bulldog, who had been sniffing Uncle Andrew all over, raised its head and said, “It’s an animal. Certainly an animal. And probably the same kind as those other ones.”

From "The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis

I remembered, though, that when I last went round the yard Piter had been sniffing about at something, and perhaps he might have eaten what had not agreed with him then.

From Patience Wins War in the Works by Fenn, George Manville