sniff
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Villarreal: We know Elsbeth as this person with a keen ability to read people, who can sniff out liars, murderers.
From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026
As Kidd looks around and watches strangers become friends over a sniff of musk or jasmine, he reflects on part of the magic of the Smellers Club and other fragrance communities.
From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026
Ultimately the blood the French thought they could sniff as during a second-half comeback turned out to be Anglo-Saxon bloody-mindedness.
From BBC • May 17, 2026
The e-noses can sniff out the unique signatures of volatile organic compounds not only in the breath, but in excretions like sweat or urine, and have AI quickly identify them.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026
He took one sniff and would have fled if Torak hadn’t grabbed him and assured him in low half-barks that it really was him, and not some murderous wolverine.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
Vocabulary lists containing sniff
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