How to Use sniffer in a Sentence

sniffer

noun
  • Sniffers were brought in to search bags at the airport.
  • But her sniffer didn't work while riding out the high.
    — Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2025
  • Getting selected to join such an elite team of sniffers is no small feat.
    — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian, 22 June 2018
  • This nose rest is easily adjustable for sniffers of all shapes and sizes.
    — Eric Bangeman, Ars Technica, 12 Sep. 2024
  • The probe is called a cala, and a sniffer’s formal title is calador.
    — Richard Morgan, WSJ, 20 Dec. 2021
  • 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
  • Teams with sniffer dogs have been sweeping mounds of debris clogging streets.
    — Washington Post, 18 July 2021
  • Iranian forces used sniffer dogs to locate him but failed.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 6 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • Police on horseback moved through the throng, as did officers with sniffer dogs.
    — Jennifer Hassan, Washington Post, 4 June 2017
  • 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
  • Logan's new role as a bomb sniffer came only after an early life full of hardships.
    — Justin Spike, ajc, 14 May 2022
  • Police searched the region with helicopters and sniffer dogs.
    — Bloomberg.com, 25 July 2017
  • Rescue teams, divers and sniffer dogs have been deployed for the search operation.
    — Niha Masih, Washington Post, 30 July 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • Sniffer dogs were stationed along the path of the funeral procession.
    — Dan Bilefsky, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2017
  • Rescue teams with sniffer dogs searched through the debris for a missing mother and her 18-month-old child.
    — Arkansas Online, 17 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • One is a packet sniffer for collecting traffic that passes through the device.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 23 May 2018
  • Airports in Egypt and Morocco will also get more sniffer dogs.
    — Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2018
  • 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
  • One of the worst moments was bagging up Weston’s clothes and giving them to police for sniffer dogs to use.
    — Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 4 June 2026
  • 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
  • Cundy said the recovery of bodies, assisted by sniffer dogs, may not be completed for weeks.
    — Griff Witte, The Denver Post, 16 June 2017
  • Authorities used sniffer dogs to search a number of passenger cabins on the ship.
    — Euan McKirdy, CNN, 19 Apr. 2018

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