Then, while a jolly wood fire roared in the huge stove made of a steel gasoline barrel, laid on ends, they sprawled out on rustic chairs to sniff the odor of roasting beef and baking pies and to dream dreams.
After a goodsniff they put their heads together and uttered low whining noises.
One sniff appeased my appetite for any kind of food.
But a tightness gathered about my heart, for I could sniff what was coming.
I could sniff which way the wind was blowing, but I sat tight.
If Mr. Gridley had been alone, he would have taken a good sniff at his own bottle of sal volatile; for his kind heart sunk within him as he thought of the errand upon which he had come.
She would take up my garments, look them over with a contemptuous sniff (what eloquence there is in a sniff!
Her sniff was even more eloquent, and her prices had returned to their original low level.
Merry gave a disdainful little sniff at the savory perfume of ham which saluted them, and paused with her hand on the gate, as if she found it pleasanter out there than in the house.
One must sniff round a bit first,” he observed to Smurov.
Have you noticed how dogs sniff at one another when they meet?
She thrust his chair forward, and watched him while he sat down leisurely and removed the cover from the dish; heaved a little quick sigh of satisfaction in response to his boyish sniff of delight.
Honora began to see daylight; began to sniff suspiciously at a possible but impossible love story--an awkward jumbled thing, buried away in the years that Old Paul was trying to forget.
Now, no sooner had the Jinn appeared, than he began to sniff about, and cry 'Fee!
Now, no sooner had the Blacksmith begun tosniff the savoury smell, and think how nice the cakes and stew would taste, than the little warrior appeared to him also.
Fully five minutes passed, and then the bear stretched himself and commenced to sniff the air.
But this was unnecessary, for after a single sniff Wags retired and did not attempt to molest the game.
Again the same performance, the white muzzle of the ass stooping down to sniff the water suspiciously, his hind-quarters tilted up with the load.
Alvina saw the dim ass come up, wander uneasily to the stream, plant his fore legs, and sniff the water, his nose right down.
The bear appeared to understand, for he reared himself on two legs to sniff the air and show his teeth.
Therefore I know not but a shark may have a sense, like unto the eye of a hawk or the scent of a hound, with which to sniff the approach of death afar off.
Well, I have once more been privileged to witness the humours of the Court and the town: I have once more been permitted to sniff the air of a great library.
Hunger had overcome their savage aversion to the neighbourhood of man, and brought them out in the dark of night to prowl about the barn and sniff longingly the warm smell of the sheep, steaming through the cracks of the clumsy door.
He had preferred rather to sniffaround outside at the corner of the barn, under the ragged birch-tree in which the big turkey-cock had his perch.
He passed on and presently came to the King's pavilion where he found King Jaland asleep unattended; so he crept up and made him smell and sniff up levigated Bhang and he became as one dead.
He lifted his head suddenly, and seemed to sniff a little.
An audible sniff from beneath the covers, and Fairy, smiling mischievously, went into the front room to prepare for her caller.
I tried both ways; and when it came to a sniff of utter mortification and woe, he just threw the grammar on to the floor, and marched out of the room.
Clay took one of Alex’s shoes and one of Gran’s handkerchiefs into his hands and let Captain Joe sniff at them.
The dog turned away with a sniff and circled around the hut.
I noticed that Sniff was agin a rubbing his stomach with a soothing hand, and that he had drored up one leg.
Sniff is husband to Mrs. Sniff, and is a regular insignificant cove.
Mrs. Sniff looking as if she wanted somebody to hold her, and everybody else looking as if they’d rayther not.
When Our Missis went away upon her journey, Mrs. Sniff was left in charge.
Once, when Sniff had the repulsiveness to reach across to get the milk-pot to hand over for a baby, I see Our Missis in her rage catch him by both his shoulders and spin him out into the Bandolining Room.
Sniff agin shaking his head in low spirits agin the wall.
I noticed that Sniff was a rubbing his hands, and that Mrs. Sniff had got her eye upon him.
Mrs. Sniff couldn’t be much harder with him if he was public.
But don't tell anyone I have written, because it will be sure to reach the ears of my dear relatives and will cause them to sniff the air and flounce!
Now he thinks as how any Reb blowin’ in town could be one of ’em, comin’ to sniff out some good pickin’s.
The blanket was shown, allowing the black to sniff down its surface, before it was flapped back and forth across the colt’s back, and finally left there.
When Baednag-njudne came home, he at once began to sniff about, and said, "I smell some one.
Finding him in a talkative mood, I prepared to make myself agreeable, a proceeding which he seemed to appreciate, for he began to sniff and pay great attention to his horse, which he was elaborately turning about.
With a sniff I declined to interpret into a token of disapproval, he drove me up to the shop and awkwardly assisted me to alight.
George said that it did not make any difference whether art was done with a brush or pencil, it was a waste of time if it failed to sell; and hereupon Mrs. Stuvic began to sniff as a preliminary to an important statement.
From the dining-room there came a stimulating sniff of coffee.
Then, after another quick sniff or two, looking up at his master and expressing himself by wag of tail and glance of eye, he added: "Good luck in the wind ahead.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sniff" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
