Snuff is an English word with synonyms like smell or soupcon. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Snuff in a sentence
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Snuff meaning
- Finely ground or pulverized tobacco (or other plant derivative) intended for use by being sniffed or snorted into the nose.
- Fine-ground or minced tobacco, dry or moistened, intended for use by placing a pinch behind the lip or beneath the tongue.
- A snort or sniff of fine-ground, powdered, or pulverized tobacco.
Synonyms of Snuff
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Using Snuff
- The main meaning on this page is: Finely ground or pulverized tobacco (or other plant derivative) intended for use by being sniffed or snorted into the nose. | Fine-ground or minced tobacco, dry or moistened, intended for use by placing a pinch behind the lip or beneath the tongue. | A snort or sniff of fine-ground, powdered, or pulverized tobacco.
- Useful related words include: smell, soupcon, speck, jot.
- Possible Dutch translations are: snuif, snuiftabak.
- In the example corpus, snuff often appears in combinations such as: to snuff, snuff out, and snuff.
Context around Snuff
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 10 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Snuff
- In this selection, "snuff" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, take, false, annual, films, film and instead stand out and add context to how "snuff" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include up to snuff and 4th annual snuff film festival. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "snuff" sits close to words such as abatement, abductions and absurdly, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with snuff
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Alas, as far as its star was concerned, it was nowhere near up to snuff. (15 words)
In some parts of the world, people use smokeless tobacco products like chewing tobacco, snuff and snus. (17 words)
By criminalizing public criticism of the port deal, the Tanzanian authorities are clearly trying to snuff out dissent. (18 words)
Food has a way of activating something inside of us, feelings of home and belonging, which is why I think that Lopez’s videos are so healing for those of us who’ve ever felt the need to snuff out our fire. (42 words)
Eating, drinking and smoking Smoking has not been allowed in the chamber of the House of Commons since the 17th century. citation As a result, Members may take snuff instead and the doorkeepers still keep a snuff-box for this purpose. (41 words)
False snuff films The Guinea Pig films main The first two films in the Japanese Guinea Pig series are designed to look like snuff films; the video is grainy and unsteady, as if recorded by amateurs. (36 words)
Do you really think the NBA will let Nikola Jokic and your gritty little Nuggets snuff out the Suns without a fight? (22 words)
Example sentences (20)
Eating, drinking and smoking Smoking has not been allowed in the chamber of the House of Commons since the 17th century. citation As a result, Members may take snuff instead and the doorkeepers still keep a snuff-box for this purpose.
False snuff films The Guinea Pig films main The first two films in the Japanese Guinea Pig series are designed to look like snuff films; the video is grainy and unsteady, as if recorded by amateurs.
While leaving the theatre, there is a sign with the words "Houston's 4th Annual Snuff Film Festival", with a list of snuff films below.
By criminalizing public criticism of the port deal, the Tanzanian authorities are clearly trying to snuff out dissent.
Do you really think the NBA will let Nikola Jokic and your gritty little Nuggets snuff out the Suns without a fight?
He said they were discussing with other stakeholders and HRM about a variety of safety issues, whether it was around speed limits or infrastructure not being up to snuff to handle traffic volumes.
Improbably lodged at the intersection of slapstick comedy and snuff film, would be at the top of this list if more of the cowards in the voting body had seen it.
In a ruling Oct. 31, the Hawaii Supreme Court rejected an effort to snuff out a lawsuit that alleges major oil and gas companies deceived the public about climate change.
Instead, it was influenced entirely by past serial killers and their crimes, rather than a Poughkeepsie tapes killer, as well as the exploitative contents of snuff films.
Irvin’s Snuff Mill partner, Robert Lhulier, designed the 1,700-square-foot floor plan and kitchen, and Salisbury, MD-based Fisher Architecture created the blueprint.
Schmidt said it was about $1 million over the past 20 years, but that's not enough to get the building up to snuff.
Since then, the team has been working for around a month to get the game up to snuff before sending the build off for another test here in a few weeks.
The creed of social justice dominates Silicon Valley—and Sacramento is moving quickly on measures to snuff out the last wisps of resistance.
The incident occurred last Thursday at Snuff N Stuff on West Pine Street, where two unknown suspects made away with miscellaneous glass smoking devices.
We are also pleased with the Q1 performance in other U.S smoke-free categories, including moist snuff which gained 0.8 percentage points category share and delivered shipment volume growth of 3%.
Alas, as far as its star was concerned, it was nowhere near up to snuff.
Food has a way of activating something inside of us, feelings of home and belonging, which is why I think that Lopez’s videos are so healing for those of us who’ve ever felt the need to snuff out our fire.
In some parts of the world, people use smokeless tobacco products like chewing tobacco, snuff and snus.
It is not about the entire world standing against us and marching for those who want to murder and snuff the life out of us.
Joe recalled how he used to be sent by his mother to Mrs McKechnie’s snuff shop at the corner of Charlotte Street and Tullow Street.
Common combinations with snuff
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to snuff 33×
- snuff out 28×
- and snuff 6×
- snuff films 5×
- of snuff 4×
- moist snuff 3×
- snuff box 3×
- snuff film 2×
- tobacco snuff 2×
- snuff and 2×