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I think East Fairhaven Elementary's pretty neat if they can sniff something that could possibly be putting our kids in harm's way or make them ill, i want them to be safe, just like any other parent wants them to be safe. – Caleb Lopes	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Dayton Police Department policy requires the occupants of the vehicle to exit for their own safety and safety of the K-9 officer to perform this free-air sniff. – Brian Johns	Found on CNN 2 years ago
There was a point where I never thought I’d even sniff a victory here, the team has found a setup that has worked with my driving style. The team goes to work to give me what I need to go fast. – Denny Hamlin	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Infection of dogs with SARS-CoV-2 has been reported, both asymptomatic and associated with variable levels of disease as in humans, so using dogs deliberately to sniff breath and clothes from potentially infected people seems a bit of a risk to the dogs, let alone their handlers. – Mick Bailey	Found on CNN 2 years ago
There have already been so many fantastic achievements in the dogs work to detect human disease, and I believe they can be trained to sniff out COVID-19. – Claire Guest	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Although there are many circumstances in which humans utilize olfactory cues for communication, there is no authentic pheromone that has been chemically identified, i believe there is no classic sex pheromone in humans that elicits attractive behavior to the opposite sex. But there are probably crucial odors that affect each other's emotions - for example, a baby's head smell that parents sniff and feel happy, and a woman's axillary (underarm) odors that affect the emotions of males. – Kazushige Touhara	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Sega goes over to Zeus' head and puts Gary Richardson paws up on the table and takes a sniff, gary Richardson ears came back, Gary Richardson got down, Gary Richardson instantly jumped on the sofa next to me and put Gary Richardson head on my thigh in sorrow. At that moment not only was my family broken, but his own mother was broken. – Gary Richardson	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Before we send humans in to clear a building or check that critical infrastructure site for IED contamination, one of things that we'll do is bring these specially-trained mine detecting dogs up to sniff the perimeter, determine if there are explosives in that building and based on where the dogs may be indicating, find out where in the building perhaps do we think those explosive hazards are. – Jerry Guilbert	Found on CNN 4 years ago
One of my dogs went under the fence to sniff his dogs, my dog’s tail was wagging. He was just sniffing his dog and the guy, like night and day, flipped out. – Robert Selhorst	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
If we do get a little sniff of higher yields or a wee bit of inflation or even a return to growth or even the Fed trying to get through to a second rate hike, we think the valuations (of banks) could start to reflect an improving fundamental scenario. – Franklin Templeton	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Experiments show that these rats can detect a sample with TB parasites in a second and evidence has shown that they are able to sniff out even those with very minimal parasites. – Khadija Abraham	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
He's a winner. He's made billions. He's dated beautiful women. His wife is a model. That's not to sniff at. And a lot of people believe he can bring that kind of success to the White House. – Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Apparently she went to the race start and took off win the runners at the starting shot. She stayed with a few of the front runners, ran off to sniff some animal carcasses, romp in the water, and then back to the race. I understand she stayed on the course for 13.1 miles, finished seventh, and was the highest placed female. – April Hamlin	Found on CNN 8 years ago
What we measure, the sniff response, is quite intuitive (and) adults and children with typical development react similarly. – Liron Rozenkrantz	Found on CNN 8 years ago
[The report] does pass the sniff test. – James Feldkamp	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Anti-Semitism is a horrible disease from which nobody is immune, and it has a kind of evil fascination that makes an enlightened person draw near the source of infection, supposedly in a scientific spirit, but really to sniff the vapors and dally with the possibility. – Mary McCarthy	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us. – Loren	added by anonymous 14 years ago

I think East Fairhaven Elementary's pretty neat if they can sniff something that could possibly be putting our kids in harm's way or make them ill, i want them to be safe, just like any other parent wants them to be safe.

– Caleb Lopes

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Dayton Police Department policy requires the occupants of the vehicle to exit for their own safety and safety of the K-9 officer to perform this free-air sniff.

– Brian Johns

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There was a point where I never thought I’d even sniff a victory here, the team has found a setup that has worked with my driving style. The team goes to work to give me what I need to go fast.

– Denny Hamlin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Infection of dogs with SARS-CoV-2 has been reported, both asymptomatic and associated with variable levels of disease as in humans, so using dogs deliberately to sniff breath and clothes from potentially infected people seems a bit of a risk to the dogs, let alone their handlers.

– Mick Bailey

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There have already been so many fantastic achievements in the dogs work to detect human disease, and I believe they can be trained to sniff out COVID-19.

– Claire Guest

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Although there are many circumstances in which humans utilize olfactory cues for communication, there is no authentic pheromone that has been chemically identified, i believe there is no classic sex pheromone in humans that elicits attractive behavior to the opposite sex. But there are probably crucial odors that affect each other's emotions - for example, a baby's head smell that parents sniff and feel happy, and a woman's axillary (underarm) odors that affect the emotions of males.

– Kazushige Touhara

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Sega goes over to Zeus' head and puts Gary Richardson paws up on the table and takes a sniff, gary Richardson ears came back, Gary Richardson got down, Gary Richardson instantly jumped on the sofa next to me and put Gary Richardson head on my thigh in sorrow. At that moment not only was my family broken, but his own mother was broken.

– Gary Richardson

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Before we send humans in to clear a building or check that critical infrastructure site for IED contamination, one of things that we'll do is bring these specially-trained mine detecting dogs up to sniff the perimeter, determine if there are explosives in that building and based on where the dogs may be indicating, find out where in the building perhaps do we think those explosive hazards are.

– Jerry Guilbert

Found on CNN
4 years ago

One of my dogs went under the fence to sniff his dogs, my dog’s tail was wagging. He was just sniffing his dog and the guy, like night and day, flipped out.

– Robert Selhorst

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

If we do get a little sniff of higher yields or a wee bit of inflation or even a return to growth or even the Fed trying to get through to a second rate hike, we think the valuations (of banks) could start to reflect an improving fundamental scenario.

– Franklin Templeton

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Experiments show that these rats can detect a sample with TB parasites in a second and evidence has shown that they are able to sniff out even those with very minimal parasites.

– Khadija Abraham

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

He's a winner. He's made billions. He's dated beautiful women. His wife is a model. That's not to sniff at. And a lot of people believe he can bring that kind of success to the White House.

– Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Apparently she went to the race start and took off win the runners at the starting shot. She stayed with a few of the front runners, ran off to sniff some animal carcasses, romp in the water, and then back to the race. I understand she stayed on the course for 13.1 miles, finished seventh, and was the highest placed female.

– April Hamlin

Found on CNN
8 years ago

What we measure, the sniff response, is quite intuitive (and) adults and children with typical development react similarly.

– Liron Rozenkrantz

Found on CNN
8 years ago

[The report] does pass the sniff test.

– James Feldkamp

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Anti-Semitism is a horrible disease from which nobody is immune, and it has a kind of evil fascination that makes an enlightened person draw near the source of infection, supposedly in a scientific spirit, but really to sniff the vapors and dally with the possibility.

– Mary McCarthy

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us.

– Loren

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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