How to Use snuff in a Sentence

snuff

1 of 2 verb

• When there’s a glimmer of light, the Dodgers snuff it out.
  — Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Sep. 2022
• But if enough early drives are snuffed out, the Tigers could take the home crowd out of the game.
  — USA TODAY, 27 Aug. 2023
• Now, these red states are on a mission to snuff it out.
  — USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2024
• Sivori couldn't find time to get rid of the ball and the Yellow Jackets would snuff out any daylight on the ground.
  — J.l. Kirven, The Courier-Journal, 28 Aug. 2021
• Then some late spring storms hit that region, snuffing out the flames.
  — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 July 2023
• Brief protests were snuffed out by police at the start of the war and now are all but non-existent.
  — Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 24 Feb. 2023
• Pop-ups and ads are snuffed out, and of course the DuckDuckGo search engine is built in, free of the Google trappings.
  — David Nield, WIRED, 6 Apr. 2024
• Our Killer wants revenge and aims to snuff out anyone who crossed him and his partner.
  — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2023
• Trust your gut, trust your heart and trust your history — snuff out this old flame and move on to bigger and brighter things.
  — Wayne and Wanda, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Jan. 2023
• In the process, Putin would continue to snuff out Western values like freedom of speech and freedom of the press.
  — Randy Teague, National Review, 3 May 2023
• Heidi, Frannie, Jaime, and Danny all could have had their torch snuffed.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 4 May 2023
• But when her girlhood expired, her success was snuffed out with it.
  — Mattie Kahn, The Atlantic, 16 June 2023
• But, every so often, the series channels the rage that drives people to snuff out the threats that jostle too close.
  — Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023
• In a typical year, melting snow seeps into the ground where winter fires burn and snuffs most of them out.
  — Ian Austen, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2024
• Lloyd Hansen is his exit strategy, and this nutter will stop at nothing to snuff Six and steal the drive.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 14 July 2022
• Then the Lower East Side changed, snuffing out the spirit of the gritty tenement.
  — Ronda Kaysen, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2024
• But now the new variant of the Covid-19 virus threatens to snuff out any budding rebound in Chicago and other big cities.
  — Peter Grant, WSJ, 17 Aug. 2021
• Chinese censors have tried to snuff out the sharpest criticisms.
  — Chris Buckley, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2022
• But linebacker Judah Parker was waiting on Martin and snuffed out the run in the backfield.
  — Matthew Glenesk, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Sep. 2023
• Dimarco Brooks hauled in a pick earlier in the game to snuff out a Liberty drive.
  — Pat Stoetzer, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 5 Mar. 2021
• The ban is seen as part of a move to snuff out political dissent and a sign that Hong Kong is losing its freedoms.
  — Theodora Yu, BostonGlobe.com, 4 June 2022
• They were snuffed out, his family says, when an Israeli gunman opened fire on their car, shooting the 17-year-old Khdour in the head.
  — Yahya Abou-Ghazala, CNN, 23 Feb. 2024
• And yet Derrickson was also keen to show that fortitude is hard to snuff out.
  — New York Times, 20 June 2022
• Keon's many cousins are left angry and hurting: How could someone be so selfish as to snuff out the heart of a family?
  — Elizabeth Depompei, The Indianapolis Star, 1 July 2021
• And rates rose in the final couple of years in the late-1990s dot-com bubble as the Fed was trying to snuff out a speculative mania.
  — Ben Carlson, Fortune, 8 Mar. 2021
• The word alone evokes candles snuffed, fires extinguished, flames slowly dimmed.
  — Lauren Sanchez, Vogue, 24 Aug. 2023
• Brown smothered Jennings — and potentially got there early, though no flags flew — to snuff out the drive and allow Texas to run out the clock.
  — Nick Moyle, ExpressNews.com, 19 Nov. 2020
• That light has been snuffed out.
  — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2026
• Worried your winter gear isn’t up to snuff?
  — Amelia McBride, Travel + Leisure, 21 Jan. 2026
• That same scenario played out in one of our counties just a few years ago, and a 14-year-old’s life was snuffed out because of it.
  — Bobby Zirkin, Baltimore Sun, 15 Jan. 2026

snuff

2 of 2 noun

• So it's usually smoked, ingested in the form of snuff, or used as an enema by those seeking the full hallucinogenic effect.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 13 Jan. 2022
• And another interesting tidbit that the series chose to touch on was the Queen's addiction to tobacco snuff.
  — Rosie Knight, refinery29.com, 27 Sep. 2021
• Swedish Match, based in Stockholm, makes nicotine pouches, chewing tobacco, and moist snuff, among other products.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 11 May 2022
• Her team just received specific reopening requirements a few days ago, and are now working fast to make sure everything is up to safety snuff.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 18 Sep. 2020
• The use of vilca, typically inhaled like snuff or through a pipe, dates back at least 4,000 years, indicated by an ancient pipe from that time found at the Inca Cueva site in Argentina.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 11 Jan. 2022
• Going above and beyond, guest specialists stop by rooms just to ensure every detail is up to snuff.
  — Caitlin Gunther, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Jan. 2026
• It is so named because the flowers were made into snuff in the past, used to induce sneezing to clear out congestion.
  — Viveka Neveln, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Oct. 2025
• Years of overexposure to injustice, snuff content, and tragedy has led us all to build walls to protect ourselves from the world's pain.
  — Stephen Kent, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Sep. 2025