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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

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

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 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

Mole began to snuffle, sucking gobs of air over the hundreds of scent glands in his nose.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

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

If one of her chickens got the snuffles one day, rubbing asafetida in butter on their nostrils would set them straight.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

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

“I’ve never met a person,” whispered Eilonwy, while Gurgi snuffled in fright, “who could talk about such dreadful things and smile at the same time. It’s like ants walking up and down your back.”

From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander

Lying on his side on a dark summer night earlier this year, Sir David Attenborough is watching a hedgehog snuffling around an urban garden.

From BBC ● Dec. 18, 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

Still, there’s something about coming into a barn full of warm cows, their sweet breath, the scent of the dry hay, and the sounds of their shuffling and snuffling.

From "Orbiting Jupiter" by Gary D. Schmidt