snout

Example Sentences

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"The skull was wide and heart-shaped, really narrow at the snout but really wide at the back," says Mann.

From Science Daily • Feb. 11, 2026

I wanted to do right by Bingo, a little white Jindo mix with strawberry-blond ears and freckles all over her snout, whose inevitable death was already becoming an intrusive thought.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 28, 2026

The skull has an enormous eye socket and a long sword-like snout that it used to eat fish and squid.

From BBC • Oct. 9, 2025

“Summer afternoons are best spent in an air-conditioned room as a Bulldog’s short snout can cause labored breathing in hot and humid weather,” according to the American Kennel Club.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 22, 2025

I feel her cool, damp snout dab at my cheek.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer