snuffle
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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
Wild boar snuffle through rusted playgrounds, and kindergarten napping areas are scattered with wide-eyed, broken dolls, thick with radioactive dust.
From Slate ● Sep. 26, 2014
A pig lolls in the mud while her offspring snuffle in the filth.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2014
If a pug snorts a funny backward snuffle, it might startle you enough to accidentally step in its poop.
From "Shine!" by J.J. and Chris Grabenstein
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 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
In time, the kids help teach Dumbo to fly, coaxing him with a feather he snuffles into his trunk: He sneezes, and the exhalation sends him up.
From New York Times ● Mar. 27, 2019
Otherwise, the room was perfectly silent, except for Ton-Ton’s snuffles.
From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer
At night, wild boars snuffled outside the tents, searching for food scraps.
From New York Times ● Jan. 24, 2020
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 left tracks larger than coffee cans, and snuffled through our dreams all night.
From New York Times ● May 16, 2013
He knelt down to pick up two hairless, puppies, which snuffled at his hands.
From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2010
Alyce snuffled into her sleeve, leaving her nose dirty and red and no drier than it was.
From "The Midwife's Apprentice" by Karen Cushman
"I lay still, pretending to be dead. I could feel one of the animals snuffling at my head," she said.
From BBC ● Dec. 23, 2025
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
I’m far removed from Pleistocene Siberia, but I thought I wasn’t a dog person until I was introduced to a snuffling puppy who needed some food and a warm place to sleep.
From Slate ● Feb. 17, 2021
I watched them press their great wrinkled mouths against the ground, snuffling and chomping.
From New York Times ● Jan. 6, 2021
He paused before a small white cottage, snuffling ecstatically the wonderful aroma of cooking drifting out mingled with wood smoke.
From "The Incredible Journey" by Sheila Burnford
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