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Recent Examples of sniffleOthers may be sniffling all the time due to year-round allergies.—Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 20 Mar. 2025 Libby sniffles before turning the camera and walking ahead while Abby says something else, also inaudible, in the background.—Samira Asma-Sadeque, People.com, 13 Mar. 2025 Was Carolina sniffling loudly on purpose so Grant couldn’t ignore her tears?—Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 18 Feb. 2025 People around me were sniffling, issuing involuntary sobs.—Wash Westmoreland, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for sniffle
In a similar lawsuit launched in March against Trump’s reorganization of the Department of Education, Randi Weingarten of the American Federation of Teachers whined that Trump’s plan could lead to block grants to the states, some even allowing the money to go for private school vouchers.
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Betsy McCaughey,
Boston Herald,
18 May 2025
Many comments on that post feel McIlroy is whining, but that does not seem to be the case.
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Savannah Leigh Richardson,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 May 2025
Creators posted videos of themselves sobbing onto the camera.
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Fortesa Latifi,
Rolling Stone,
21 May 2025
Through the decades, this was the county that gave us the judge who sobbed while issuing a ruling in the Anna Nicole Smith case, the judge who was found half-naked at a judicial conference, and the judges, plural, who had faced DUI charges.
Traditionally, the upside down American flag signals distress, and that was the mood expressed as speakers shouted, cried and chanted with the crowd of around 100 people.
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Harley Walls,
Arkansas Online,
17 May 2025
As tensions ran high, the other children started to cry.
The car went quiet, and her grandmother began to weep.
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Stephen Rodrick,
Rolling Stone,
18 May 2025
Life outside the courtroom, however, is a bit more complicated, with Nash-Betts weeping in a hospital gown and Kardashian stabbing herself with a needle in a bathroom stall.
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