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Synonyms for sniff

smell

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snuffle

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  • snuffle
  • intake of breath
  • quick inhalation

sniff around

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  • nose around
  • hunt around
  • see what you can find
  • search for clues

sniff something out: find

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Synonyms for sniff

to perceive with the olfactory sense

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Synonyms for sniff

sensing an odor by inhaling through the nose

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perceive by inhaling through the nose

inhale audibly through the nose

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She was strangely stirred, and sniffed and sniffed with an increasing delight.
Jerry sniffed his bare calf--not that he needed to identify it, but just because he liked to, and in a sort of friendly greeting.
He kept quiet a little longer, and then gave a prodigious sniff.
The other fox-terrier, the one with the injured foreleg, endured Michael's sniff with no more than hysterical growls deep in the throat; but the flipping out of Michael's tongue was too much.
He could not help bristling, however, when first he sniffed a trousers' leg into which his teeth had so recently torn.
"He sniffs shabu in the morning, lunchtime and by nighttime," Cabatingan added.
Dog sniffs do not give rise to the kind of invasion of privacy that gives concern, he said.
"So we would have eight glass pots, one of them will have it in and every time the dog sniffs that pot he will get rewarded - a tennis ball."
In addition to communication, the device can function as a sort of steering mechanism for wheelchairs: Two successive sniffs in tell it to go forward, two out mean reverse, out and then in turn it left, and in and out turn it right.
Q When we leave our Westie alone in the back garden, he seems hyperactive and constantly sniffs the grass, going round in circles.
PACKET IN: Flash sniffs out more fake cigs at Rotterdam yesterday
In Place, however, the Court's description of dog sniffs as sui generis--a Latin term meaning "unique," which we lawyers trot out to convince laypeople that law is a deep and mystical matter--was based on the fact that a dog discloses only the presence of contraband, not on the belief that the dog is infallible.
As observed for imagined smells, pleasant real smells evoked larger sniffs than unpleasant ones did.
He sniffs, but then bobs his head left and right - "goofing," as Lytwyn describes it.