1.   With considerable care he selected four, returned the others to his pockets, opened the chosen ones and sniffed in a discriminating fashion.

2.   At the observation post overlooking Nablus, several soldiers sat by their tank, and a runt dog sniffed in the dirt.

3.   Eberharter was thought to have a chance to win three gold medals at these Games, but the Austrian camp seemed to sniff in their strudel at the result.

4.   I have sniffed everything in sight, close up, without disovering it.

5.   Police dogs pad through a maze of offices, sniffing in closets and poking around desks.

6.   The conventions, in short, were rituals of bonding, something not to be sniffed at in a continent-sized country.

7.   They do not work at night or in storms or cold weather, and it is hard to imagine deploying a swarm to sniff luggage in an airport.

8.   When e-mail devices were first introduced, I sniffed in disdain.

9.   Aborigines supposedly took up sniffing in imitation.