snout

Example Sentences

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Its long snout is reminiscent—perhaps not coincidentally—of early Jaguars.

From The Wall Street Journal

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

From Science Daily

Before they could say anything he half walked, half crawled toward the behemoth, angling toward its tail, thinking it would be easier to step over the tail than the body or snout.

From Literature

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

The manatee raised its fat snout out of the water to breathe and sniff at her, and Natalie felt a sudden kinship with it.

From Literature