If Letizia did know how to sniff out a media rat in her camp, it was undoubtedly due to her professional training as a journalist.
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Duane and Dicky lope backstage afterwards to “do some sniff,” as Dicky terms it.
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Late in the afternoon, the day being warm, I raised the window again and leaned out to get a sniff of air.
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Delachaise, a pit bull mix, made it across the field on her first try, but had to stop and sniff the camera.
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But is their sniff strong enough for an entire legal system to rest on?
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They had still fifteen paces to go when John Barrow came to a stop with a sniff of disgust.
The Rover Boys In The Mountains|Arthur M. Winfield
The two cubs sneaked forward, to sniff at the bones where their mother had been cut up—and began to eat her.
Pluck on the Long Trail|Edwin L. Sabin
Two Huns come to sniff at us, and we dive below the clouds once more.
Cavalry of the Clouds|Alan Bott
But as the time drew near for the return of the hunters, he began to sniff the air in every direction, his nose held high.
Frank of Freedom Hill|Samuel A. Derieux
As soon as they were in the court the rakshas began to run about from one side to the other and to sniff the air.
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British Dictionary definitions for sniff
sniff
/ (snɪf) /
verb
to inhale through the nose, usually in short rapid audible inspirations, as for the purpose of identifying a scent, for clearing a congested nasal passage, or for taking a drug or intoxicating fumes
(when intr, often foll by at) to perceive or attempt to perceive (a smell) by inhaling through the nose