sniff 的 3 个定义
- to draw air through the nose in short, audible inhalations.
- to clear the nose by so doing; sniffle.
- to smell by short inhalations.
- to show disdain, contempt, etc., by or as by sniffing.
- to perceive by or as by smelling: to sniff a scandal.
- to inhale through the nose: to sniff the air.
- an act of sniffing; a single, short, audible inhalation.
- the sound made by such an act.
- a scent or odor perceived: a sniff of perfume.
sniff 近义词
breathe in
更多sniff例句
- One of the final sniff tests happens when the car is fully assembled.
- It’s extremely important to keep dogs and other pets away from porcupines, as these rodents won’t hesitate to defend themselves, and can take even a curious sniff as a threat if they feel vulnerable.
- The flesh should give slightly when squeezed, and when you take a sniff, the aroma should be unmistakable—somewhere between melon, pineapple, and very ripe peaches.
- Look at Billy Carter, my sweater-vested companions sniff derisively; look at Clinton.
- But even paranoid melodramatic self-aggrandizers sniff out nefarious and tentacular plots from time to time.
- 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.
- Duane and Dicky lope backstage afterwards to “do some sniff,” as Dicky terms it.
- Late in the afternoon, the day being warm, I raised the window again and leaned out to get a sniff of air.
- He was coming out, like myself, to sniff the air; and I was not surprised, for its sweetness after the rain was intoxicating.
- Watch sat down gravely near it, and gave an approving sniff at intervals.
- The warm wind bore to them the sniff of the sand-dunes, spiced groves, and genii's islands far to southward.
- "She wouldn't be of much use for fighting men," remarked Walter, with a slight sniff of contempt.
- Joyce looked up with a flashing glance, and turned to Ellen, who received the notice with a sniff and a restrained smile.