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Other days, the project manager will play with her pup at home or throw a few treats in a snuffle mat.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2025

They invited a winsome six-month-old piglet named Wilma to snuffle around in the mini-meadow, which she did with tremendous focus and energy, transfixing her audience.

From New York Times ● Sep. 23, 2022

We fed Typo from a snuffle mat, which encourages him to root around with his nose for food.

From Slate ● Jun. 21, 2022

They snuffle around in the gloom, hunting for some snacks after their sleep.

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2022

The poor fellow’s voice had grown sadder and sadder since the beginning of the conversation, and now he definitely began to snuffle.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

Hedgehogs may be communicating with more than just snuffles, grunts and snorts, according to scientists who have discovered the animal's hearing range.

From BBC ● Mar. 10, 2026

“The idea that having the snuffles a while back somehow protects you from SARS-CoV-2 infection has always left me cold, but it’s been a persistent urban legend throughout the pandemic,” he said.

From New York Times ● Feb. 10, 2021

The sound design also helps bring the series’ creatures to life, though roars, grunts, snuffles, and subtler noises like heavy footsteps, or the rustling of raptors rushing through a field of wheat.

From The Verge ● Oct. 7, 2019

Although he seldom cries, he “grunts and snuffles and roars.”

From The New Yorker ● May 11, 2019

Matthew drops his machete to the ground and puts an arm across his eyes as he snuffles and yowls and moans.

From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness

At night, wild boars snuffled outside the tents, searching for food scraps.

From New York Times ● Jan. 24, 2020

On Sunday, in the community of Pacupac, on the north coast of Luzon, pigs marooned on a hillock snuffled for food.

From New York Times ● Sep. 16, 2018

When the film mercifully finished, I crawled into bed and stared wide-eyed at my door for most of the night while my friend snuffled peacefully, completely oblivious to my terror.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 22, 2014

He knelt down to pick up two hairless, puppies, which snuffled at his hands.

From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2010

She snuffled and adjusted her clothes to make certain all the seams were lined up precisely the way they were supposed to be.

From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein

Kaunda, though, appeared unfazed by the unexpected intrusion of his personal space and continued to deliver his on-camera report, only finally bursting into laughter when the elephant’s leathery appendage started snuffling his face.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 18, 2022

Christine Burlison thought her newborn baby Aria had nothing more than a cold when she started sneezing and snuffling not long after coming home.

From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2022

I watched them press their great wrinkled mouths against the ground, snuffling and chomping.

From New York Times ● Jan. 6, 2021

Little labs, shepherds, border collies, and more, all happily snuffling and wagging along the sidewalk as they trot along with their new families.

From Slate ● Sep. 24, 2020

He lowered his face right into the dirt, snuffling and twitching.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda