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How to use the word sniffing in a Sentence?

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We collected some socks from people willing to donate socks, and we taught the dogs, by smelling the socks, which ones were the Covid socks and they picked it up very quickly, then we moved into the schools and started sniffing the kids at the ankles.

Carol Edwards

Found on CNN
12 months ago

If Will has to leave me and Roam behind to go on a work trip, I feel super safe because I have my dog, he’s one of those dogs that, he’s only going to bark if there’s someone sniffing around the bus or something. So he’s an alarm system.

Kristin Watson

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

That's likely what dogs are reacting to, we know for other purposes, we use dogs that way for bomb-sniffing, for drugs, and they have tried to use them in cancer diagnosis. They've been trying to use them for C. diff diagnosis as well.

Amesh Adalja

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Rodents are experts at sniffing out food and shelter, and they're resilient in their ways to obtain both, residential properties offer the ideal habitat for rodents, and once they've settled in, they're capable of reproducing rapidly and in large quantities.

Ben Hottel

Found on CNN
3 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

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

Through all of her treatment, and despite the pain she was in, her temperament never changed. - Cpl. Juan Rodriguez There were no human casualties during Lucca’s bomb-sniffing patrols. Her career ended in March 2012 when she lost her leg and suffered chest burns from a bombing in Afghanistan’s Helmand Province. Cpl. Juan Rodriguez, who was her handler at the time, stayed by her side throughout each step of Lucca’s recovery. The explosion was huge and I immediately feared the worst for Lucca, i ran to her and saw her struggling to get up. I picked her up and ran to the shelter of a nearby tree line, applied a tourniquet to her injured leg and called the medics to collect us.

Christopher Willingham

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

It's definitely possible, and then such a device can be used as a sniffing dog, an instrumental sniffing dog.

Jan Tytgat

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I wasn't getting the strong effects of OxyContin anymore, and I was already sniffing something else, so it didn't seem like a leap, it didn't seem like the heroin I grew up knowing about.

Anthony Sideri

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The market is sniffing out a bottom in the underlying commodity and we are seeing a bounce in energy stocks from having been oversold in the last month or so, it's in no one's interest for oil to go any lower; not in ours, or OPEC’s.

John Manley

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The market is sniffing out a bottom in the underlying commodity and we are seeing a bounce in energy stocks from having been oversold in the last month or so, it's in no one's interest for oil to go any lower; not in ours, or OPEC's.

John Manley

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Nobody saves America by sniffing cocaine, jiggling your knees blankly in the rain, when it snows in your nose you catch cold in your brain.

Allen Ginsberg

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Steve McCroskey Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue

Airplane

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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