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Example sentences for: sniff

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My scientific interest in wine description grew out of watching people, mostly men, hold a glass of wine up to a candle, swish it around, sniff it, taste it, and utter some wonderfully poetic-sounding remark, such as, “The burnt fruity nose a bit overpowers the buttery lushness of the finish.”
"Few realize that just one sniff can cause death," asserts the Partnership for a Drug-Free America.
"From the first sniff, one is impressed by the precise, deep but never bombastic aromas in which green apple and crenshaw melon scents [ sic ] and by a creamy, vanillin accent of oak, and it is wonderfully balanced on the palate with ripe richness set off by firming acids and brightness."
Reporters sniff for signs of celebration at the White House but come up empty.
And the wife of Aetna's CEO had to, sniff, go on a South America jaunt alone .