Slowly the minutes rolled by while the Beau took several possessive sniffsof the young spring air.
By the tonick influence of several sniffs Mrs. Courteen was sufficiently revived to ask in a stern voice what Phyllida was doing in this ungodly place.
A few sniffswould follow, and then perhaps actual tears, but more likely a river of speech.
Sniffs around and spooks around and is a good fellow at the hotel, and possibly spends a little money where it's most needed, and one day turns up at the Quince mansion.
It sniffs 'em up like--like Cyrano in the bake-shop.
Me best 'at," said Eliza, and there was a silence with sniffs in it.
Mrs. McFee, passing her to go out the door, sniffs audibly and draws aside her skirt.
She peers cautiously about, enters, and sniffs the air several times.
I prefer to think of them thus, as furry bogles that bob up out of fairy tales and bob back again to the making of a mythology that sniffs of sweet fern and bayberry and has the flavor of barberry sauce.
After that he sniffs the kitchen garden, and the descent to Avernus is easy.
Clarissa's sniffs became gurgling sobs as she took her place in the apprehensive line.
Books and papers made a fluttering disappearance, through which the long-drawn sniffs of Clarissa Butts were plainly audible.
Oh, slip-sloppy Cabby, this Bouquet de Babylon sniffs of ammonia horridly, And stable-dust flying is terribly trying when Phoebus is pouring down torridly!
Or nose-torturing sniffs from the shops that sell "Sausage-and-onions"!
Becos if one bob for two mile You takes, wivout a botheration, Fare sniffs a diddle in yer smile; (That's wy we puts on hindignation!
He put his head on one side, his black eyebrows went up, and he again uttered that succession of sniffs that served him for a laugh.
Father Greer's nose came down over his upper lip, the corners of his mouth went up, and a succession of sniffs indicated that he was laughing.
A poor devil whose dirty ashen white body shows through his rags sniffs sensually with dilated nostrils the heavy coffee-fragrant smoke, and turns to sleep again in the feeble sunlight of the greystone steps.
His steps beat faster and he sniffs hard suddenly the smell of dinner and frying fish.
And sniffs the dusty bales of spice Pepper from Cathay, nard and musk, Strange marbles from ruined cities, packed In unfamiliar-scented straw.
He felt that it would not be so sad if it were sadder, if Mrs. Slocum's sniffshad come from her heart, and not from her sentimentality.
A big mutt dog comes and sniffs Cat and gets a right and a left scratch to the nose.
She gulps and sniffs some more, and Mom brings her a cup of tea.
She really meant well, but of all things provoking Is a woman so perfect she sniffs when you're smoking.
I can stand her dusting, her shining, her poking, But wilt like a leaf when she sniffs when I'm smoking.
I'm not hard to please, but of all things provoking Is a woman around who sniffs when you're smoking.
Even then they only gave a few sniffs before breaking down and stopping, so that we could not advance perceptibly until 11.
Mr. Ellins sniffs scornful; but he'd gone the limit himself, so he gives the directions.
Aunty sniffs a bit, but fin'lly decides to take a chance and sails in in all her grandeur.
She sits down on the window-seat, and having opened her book, sniffs at the flowers.
Of course, after her emissary had departed Miss Upton had to face Mrs. Whipp and her injured sniffs and silent implications of maltreatment; but she sketched the story to her, eliciting the only question she dreaded.
Miss Upton cudgeled her brain for the small occurrences of her shopping and managed to recall a few items; but she was not in her usual form and Charlotte received her offerings with scornful sniffs and silence.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sniffs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
