Synonyms:
sniff, snuff
Meaning: sensing an odor by inhaling through the nose
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
sniff, whiff
Meaning: perceive by inhaling through the nose; "sniff the perfume"
Synonyms:
sniff, sniffle
Meaning: inhale audibly through the nose; "the sick student was sniffling in the back row"
Usage examples
He stuck his nose up in the air and gave a long sniff.
Sniff the smoke and drink the liquid that remains," he said.
She glanced once more at the letter in her hand, then with a sniff tossed it upon the fire.
When the empty vial was produced he opened it and took a short sniff. Then he drew his breath in sharply.
She gave a reminiscent sniff as she threw up the cover and saw on the under side of it a big label of pasteboard unevenly lettered.
Mr Fledgeby could only express the feelings to which this incredible statement gave rise in his breast, by a prodigiously long derisive sniff.
She found Gub-Gub poking his nose through the bars of the window, trying to sniff the cooking-smells that came from the palace-kitchen. She told the pig to bring the Doctor to the window because she wanted to speak to him.
She kept her word, leaving the place in charge of the charwoman, who, when asked if she could stand the smell, replied, "What smell?" and who, when taken close to the cheeses and told to sniff hard, said she could detect a faint odour of melons.
'First you mess all our nice herbs about with your horrid brown fingers and sniff at them with your long nose till no one else will care to buy them, and then you say it's all bad stuff, though the duke's cook himself buys all his herbs from us.'
With all possible speed he slips out from among the roots, and is already rising; and as he approaches the surface and finds the blessed light beating more and more strongly upon the mud about his eyes, he hastens his flight, until, with an eager sniff, he reaches the surface.