How to use snuff in a sentence

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• That cat must have been twenty years old when he finally snuffed it.From the entry snuff it
• He sighed, snuffed out his cigarette, and got back to work.From the entry snuff out
• He sighed, snuffed out his wish to walk right out the door, and got back to work.From the entry snuff out
• He preferred a plug to snuff.From the entry plug
• The students in my cohort for my organic chemistry class this year are not up to snuff. Last year's cohort scored much higher averages on the mid-term.From the entry cohort
• Match box bean and snuff box sea bean are other names used for this species.2016, Bharati Bhattacharyya, Golden Greens: The Amazing World of Plants, page 136. From the entry snuff box sea bean
• The man smiled, took out his snuff box and drew in a few nailfuls.2009, Linus Tongwo Asong, Salvation Colony, page 24. From the entry nailful
• "Those ones you can’t see unless you’ve watched someone snuff it?"2003, J.K.Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. From the entry snuff it
• I heard he made it all the way down off the mountain before he snuffed it."1994, Pinckney Benedict, Dogs of God, page 204. From the entry take a licking and keep on ticking
• I have learned from experience that a modicum of snuff can be most efficacious.1988, Terry Gilliam, Charles McKeown, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, spoken by Baron Munchausen (John Neville). From the entry modicum
• Surprisingly we were not asked to snuff them out as we entered.1986, New Statesman, volume 112, page 18. From the entry bouncerly
• That's what it's like.' He snuffed down his nose in self-contempt.1965, Olivia Manning, Friends and Heroes (The Balkan Trilogy; 3), Bath: Chivers, page 895 (in series). From the entry half-colonel
• Bull snuffed; he never paid any attention to her sallies but he heard them.1957 September 5, Jack Kerouac, On the Road, New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →OCLC. From the entry sally
• The woebegone children have their aspirations slowly snuffed.2024 October 23, Jacob Oller, “Clay Weepy Memoir Of A Snail Crawls through a Gauntlet of Misery”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the…. From the entry woebegone
• He sniffed, snuffed, sneezled, snorked, and blinked back tears.2015, Jack Cady, The Off Season. From the entry sneezle
• When I snuff myself, I snuff my environment.1992, The Gestalt journal - Volumes 15-16, page 64. From the entry miscontact
• Many registered hospitals are not up to snuff.1945 January 15, “State of the Nation's Health”, in Time. From the entry up to snuff
• A chewing gum comprising a mixture of snuff and a masticable waterproof waxy body, solid at ordinary temperatures.1907, Richard Kidder Meade, Harry McCormack, Laurance T. Clark, Chemical Age: Volume 6. From the entry masticable
• The views snapped from scene to scene on five second intervals, and it was like watching an interpolation of every snuff film ever made.2024 September 28, Harry Blank, “Not Ready for Prime Time”, in Deadlined, →ISBN, page 604. From the entry snap
• The verdict against Yingluck is widely seen as having the potential to reignite tensions, though the junta has largely snuffed out open opposition.2017 August 25, Amy Sawitta Lefevre, Panarat Thepgumpanat, “Thai junta seeks Yingluck's arrest as former PM skips court verdict”, in…. From the entry reignite
• Due to, um, some factors (and despite several others), I started the idea of ebonifying him but couldn’t get it to snuff on my own.2012 September 23, Hellactic Translator Caphi, “Things of the Fortnight”, in https://shininggalaxy.wordpress.com/, people. From the entry ebonify
• From it he pinched a smidgen of snuff and packed the tobacco into his dudeen, a terrible habit for a young man to possess.2008, Andrea Scholer, When Gaelic Spirits Awake, page 80. From the entry dudeen
• "Red shirts" were the expendable members of the crew, and viewers were never really surprised if the poor innocents were snuffed by the episode's end.2000, Terry J. Erdmann, Paula M. Block, Deep Space Nine Companion, →ISBN, page 44. From the entry red shirt
• One astronomer's anaclastic glass; if a friend looks through it and a small screw is turned, it will blow pepper and snuff into his eyes.1990, Sigmund Freud, Walter Boehlich, The Letters of Sigmund Freud to Eduard Silberstein, 1871-1881, page 74. From the entry anaclastic glass
• This has been responsible for lower resistance to the external causative factors irritating in nature including the habits of chewing tobacco, snuffing or betelchewing.1959, Pakistan Dental Review, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 5. From the entry betelchewing
• Mrs. for the past several weeks of an tendered the role of a snuff dipping, bepetticoated, stooped grandmother of a hundred and blooble.1947 April 10, Joe Doakes, “A Star Is Born”, in The Indian Citizen-Democrat, Atoka, Okla., column 7. From the entry bepetticoated
• It was on a Sunday morning that an observer saw the flower-girls around the Royal Exchange accepting a pinch of snuff from the taxi-driver.1908 March 27, The Lichfield Mercury with Which Is Incorporated “The Tamworth Mercury” & “The Sutton Coldfield Mercury.”, number 1509…. From the entry taxi-driver
• Valentine watches the bunch of amusers close around the politician, the leader already dipping into his pocket for the snuff to fling into the eyes of their victim.2013, Michelle Lovric, The Remedy, Bloomsbury, page 59. From the entry amuser
• Thus, we needn't bloodily and bodily slay a foe when we can startle, stifle, and, when need be, snuff out any flame of resistance to our will.2010 October, Haha Lung with Christopher B. Prowant, Mind Warrior: Strategies for Total Mind Domination, New York, N.Y.: Citadel Press…. From the entry needn't
• He told me that my grades werent up to snuff when I told him I was getting C's in Spanish (that was my best subject that month).1990 November 30, Jim Burnes, “"ZOG"?”, in alt.conspiracy (Usenet). From the entry zorch

Meaning of snuff

1. noun Finely ground or pulverized tobacco (or other plant derivative) intended for use by being sniffed or snorted into the nose.
2. noun Fine-ground or minced tobacco, dry or moistened, intended for use by placing a pinch behind the lip or beneath the tongue.
3. noun A snort or sniff of fine-ground, powdered, or pulverized tobacco.

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Questions about snuff in a sentence

How do you use snuff in a sentence?

Snuff is used as a noun and verb. For example: “That cat must have been twenty years old when he finally snuffed it.”

What is a short sentence with snuff?

“He preferred a plug to snuff.”

What does snuff mean?

Snuff means finely ground or pulverized tobacco (or other plant derivative) intended for use by being sniffed or snorted into the nose.