sniff
verb (used without object)
to draw air through the nose in short, audible inhalations.
sniffingly
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a word derived from
sniff.
Example Sentences
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It swiveled its 88-millimeter snout around sniffingly, saw the arrow on the ground.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
Mrs. Chow down the street, for instance, why did she look so sniffingly upon him when she heard the children, in the harmless uproar of their play, cry him aloud as Daddy?
From Where the Blue Begins by Christopher Morley
Jane reacted promptly to the fierce imperative, and sniffingly choked back her tears.
From The Hermit of Far End by Margaret Pedler
She inspected the flat and, inquiry establishing the rent, sniffingly reminded them that she and Uncle John—now unhappily deceased—had begun their housekeeping in a fifteen-dollar-a-month cottage.
From The House of Toys by Henry Russell Miller
