Example Sentences

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When the cameras picked up Martin Castrogiovanni clinging to Nick Mallett like a kid reunited with his dad in a weepy Christmas movie, I might even have sniffled.

From The Guardian • Mar. 17, 2011

She refused to cry, but she may have sniffled a couple times.

From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi

One of them might have sniffled, or whimpered, or I might have made that all up just straining to hear something in the little bubble of silence around us.

From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely

I thought of the lawyer and the deal he'd give poor Tom, and all at once— You'd have sniffled yourself, Mag Monahan.

From In the Bishop's Carriage by Michelson, Miriam