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
We fed Typo from a snuffle mat, which encourages him to root around with his nose for food.
From Slate ● Jun. 21, 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
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 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
I listen to the sounds, so different from home: snuffles and rustling of small animals, the odd cluck from the woman’s hens.
From "Without Refuge" by Jane Mitchell
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
Two matchboxes over, Beatrice snuffled in her sleep.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
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’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
The hot snuffling of the Dobermans closing in fast.
From Golf Digest ● Apr. 9, 2020
Frodo thought he heard the sound of snuffling.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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