How to Use sniffer in a Sentence

sniffer

noun

• Sniffers were brought in to search bags at the airport.
• The probe is called a cala, and a sniffer’s formal title is calador.
  — Richard Morgan, WSJ, 20 Dec. 2021
• The four sniffer dogs are set to work at the airport in shifts, with two on duty at a time while the other two get a break.
  — Jari Tanner, USA TODAY, 23 Sep. 2020
• Noodle was a sniffer and spent far more time with her nose to the ground than covering it.
  — Ilene Raymond Rush, Philly.com, 6 Aug. 2017
• The plan, according to Barrett, is to bring in sniffer and attack dogs and to increase the ranger force.
  — Tristan McConnell, GQ, 16 Apr. 2018
• The search-and-rescue crews are using a number of tools, from sniffer dogs to cranes, to shift and search the wreck for any survivors.
  — Peter Aitken, Fox News, 25 June 2021
• And your sniffer can help catch the telltale whiff of mildew, which is game over for most waterproof gear.
  — Joe Jackson, Outside Online, 27 Apr. 2019
• Yet in the decade since, the idea that humans are prodigious sniffers hasn’t really caught on.
  — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian, 22 May 2017
• Yet in the decade since, the idea that humans are prodigious sniffers hasn’t really caught on.
  — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian, 22 May 2017
• Rescue teams with sniffer dogs combed through the debris to search for a missing mother and her 18-month-old child.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 16 Dec. 2022
• Live video feed from the station showed dozens of police on the scene and a sniffer dog being deployed, likely to search for weapons.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 25 May 2018
• Participants are then asked to leave the wipe in a container and a dog trainer helps one of the sniffer dogs get to work.
  — Claudia Harmata, PEOPLE.com, 24 Sep. 2020
• Getting selected to join such an elite team of sniffers is no small feat.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian, 22 June 2018
• Rescue teams with sniffer dogs searched through the debris for a missing mother and her 18-month-old child.
  — Arkansas Online, 17 Dec. 2022
• Teams with sniffer dogs have been sweeping mounds of debris clogging streets.
  — Washington Post, 18 July 2021
• Evan Longoria was about a day away from hiring Interpol and a pack of sniffer dogs to find his.
  — Henry Schulman, SFChronicle.com, 2 July 2019
• The sniffer bot was advancing on the far left side, not the center where its sensors would have been most effective.
  — August Cole, Wired, 5 June 2020
• Smugglers have buried the drugs with coffee and spices to confuse sniffer dogs and sealed them inside of lead bars and giant rocks to block scanners.
  — New York Times, 5 Dec. 2021
• Police on horseback moved through the throng, as did officers with sniffer dogs.
  — Jennifer Hassan, Washington Post, 4 June 2017
• On Tuesday, sniffer dogs searched Windsor's two train stations, as well as stores, drains, trash cans and buildings near the castle.
  — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 15 May 2018
• Sniffer dogs were stationed along the path of the funeral procession.
  — Dan Bilefsky, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2017
• And of course, the tailpipe sniffer did in fact prove that the same car produced different patterns of NOx emissions depending on the software.
  — Jeff Sabatini, Car and Driver, 30 June 2017
• The misty woods and valleys are home to prized white truffles, hunted by expert ‘trifolai’ and their sniffer dogs.
  — Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2023
• Rescue teams, divers and sniffer dogs have been deployed for the search operation.
  — Niha Masih, Washington Post, 30 July 2019
• Police searched the region with helicopters and sniffer dogs.
  — Bloomberg.com, 25 July 2017
• Logan's new role as a bomb sniffer came only after an early life full of hardships.
  — Justin Spike, ajc, 14 May 2022
• Put your sniffer to the test with this silly game, which features all sorts of holiday scents like peppermint, pine, nutmeg, and more.
  — Jessica Leigh Mattern, Country Living, 30 Nov. 2022
• Airports in Egypt and Morocco will also get more sniffer dogs.
  — Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2018
• That animal is believed to have been Wilson, one of 10 military sniffer dogs used in the search operation for the children.
  — Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 15 June 2023
• Earlier this month, Chinese researchers published a paper in Nature Communications that details a small, soft, wireless olfactory device that might finally give your sniffer something to do.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 19 May 2023

Last Updated: 9 Nov 2024