sniff
Example Sentences
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There was no throttle, just the consistency of panic, complete with sniffing and pivoting.
From Salon
And at the weekend, Aberdeen are coming, sniffing points and smelling blood.
From BBC
She sniffed them, wafting the smell toward her nose with a mitt.
From Literature
To make it happen, the firm turned to Google Cloud, which sent a handful of AI engineers armed with Gemini models to spend a day sniffing floral musk, and then managed to crack the code.
Some in the pit lane sniffed a conspiracy here.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.