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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

And deer release their feces as they feed, creating conditions where other deer might forage in areas contaminated with waste, or snuffle around waste that has feed mixed in, experts say.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 7, 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

She throws down two more stalks, and moments later three ragwort ponies snort the air and snuffle at the ground.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

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

There was nothing to be heard except the gentle wind, the heather bees, the skylarks very high, and a few distant snuffles from Meg.

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

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 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

A snuffling pig called Muriel has so far been Rose’s sole success.

From New York Times ● Aug. 17, 2023

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

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

I can hear Manchee snuffling around again outside so I creep out and I go to the second scoop.

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