Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: sniffed
IPA transcription: [sn'ɪft]
Usage examples
  • Mrs. Hoopington sniffed.
  • "That's just because you are a boy," sniffed Adela.
  • "They are in a great hurry," sniffed Miss Terry disdainfully.
  • At length he stepped forth mincingly into full view, trotted up, and sniffed inquisitively.
  • His father walked close to him, sniffed suspiciously, and then walked away, smiling bitterly.
  • Then he turned and glared at me again, and finally, advancing deliberately to my side, sniffed at my face.
  • But it looked so--so--" She hesitated for a word, and did not finish her sentence, but bit her lip and sniffed cynically.
  • "Supper," I sniffed, as I spread the jam on those lovely, lovely slices of bread and thick butter that I had fixed for my own self.
  • Never had they appeared so insignificant and paltry as then, when he sniffed over them with the air of one disdainfully doing a disagreeable task.
  • This is my affair." Miss Terry read her expression and sniffed. "There is the Christmas spirit coming out again," she said to herself. "Look at her face!"