Example Sentences

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“I always thought ‘The Goonies’ deserved a sequel,” a Monarch bigwig will sniff ironically when the youngsters set off on a mad mission; but people do love “The Goonies.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 16, 2023

It will sniff the moon’s thin atmosphere for molecules that have escaped the surface.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 5, 2023

“Deer, like most other animals, will sniff before they eat,” Kapur said.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 7, 2022

They will check whether the vitamin will repair injured "smell nerves" during a 12-week trial in which volunteers will sniff powerful odours such as rotten eggs and roses.

From BBC • Sep. 29, 2021

I have no desperate wish so to describe the vileness of the surroundings of the correspondents' camp at Dakhala that even casual thinkers will sniff at it.

From Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan by Burleigh, Bennet