sniff out
(tr, adverb) to detect through shrewdness or instinct
Words Nearby sniff out
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How to use sniff out in a sentence
But even paranoid melodramatic self-aggrandizers sniff out nefarious and tentacular plots from time to time.
Amazon’s Fight With Hachette Strands An Author In The Crossfire | David Shafer | June 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIf Letizia did know how to sniff out a media rat in her camp, it was undoubtedly due to her professional training as a journalist.
Meet the New Queen of Spain - 41-Year Old Divorcee And Commoner Letizia Ortiz | Tom Sykes | June 2, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe most practical gift Real Housewives has given me, however, is the ability to sniff out a lie.
‘The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills’ Season 2: Taylor and Russell Armstrong’s Riveting Story | Kate Aurthur | January 30, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTIn fact, he did sniff out the killer in Dexter... and he liked it.
Those of us devoted to this stuff can sniff out when voters were paying attention and when they were just being lazy.
And yet the scoundrel is around trying to sniff out some shadow of a pretext for misusing her worse than he's already done.
The Damnation of Theron Ware | Harold FredericThat is to say, he knew how to sniff out the road to almost anything.
The Maid of Sker | Richard Doddridge BlackmoreFor what hound, what vulture hovering in the Alexandrian sky, could sniff out anything so far distant as Oea?
The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura | Lucius Apuleius
Other Idioms and Phrases with sniff out
Uncover, as If there's anything to that rumor, Gladys will sniff it out. This expression alludes to an animal sniffing for prey. [First half of 1900s]
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