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Recent Examples of sniffling
Blythe Roberson,
New Yorker,
4 June 2026
Then coughing, sniffling and full-on congestion, with or without fever, for a few insufferable days.
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Mary J. Scourboutakos,
The Conversation,
14 Nov. 2025
Adjective
All the readers are sneezing, sniffling, congested, feverish, or hacking up a lung.
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Blythe Roberson,
New Yorker,
4 June 2026
Then coughing, sniffling and full-on congestion, with or without fever, for a few insufferable days.
—
Mary J. Scourboutakos,
The Conversation,
14 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sniffling
Adjective
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And every day, across from them, outside the clinic, about to enter or just leaving, there were women hugging each other and weeping.
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The show manages to stay on the brink — always laughing, never quite weeping — for its entire length.
Verb
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Stop whining and complaining, people.
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Well, certainly a lot of whining about technology.
Adjective
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Sitting opposite an old people’s home in a residential corner of Paris’ 14th arrondissement, La Santé’s unassuming presence is only given away by the occasional wailing siren as prisoners are transported to and from the site.
Verb
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But Flynn also oozes sniveling self-righteousness while hotly defending and petitioning for childhood innocence (amusing hints emerge that the daughter is a somewhat lazy and dim underachiever).
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Faced with the sniveling sum of these failures, Garfield is startled but compassionate.
Adjective
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Multiple responders then grasped the canine by the neck and back to lift it onboard, during which the dog could be heard slightly whimpering.
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Only this version of Slattery is a whimpering scaredy-cat, who unleashes the beast within at a key moment in the film.
Verb
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Carter, who returned to her dad's house from seeing a friend shortly after he was killed, can be seen in body cam footage sobbing as she is told by police that somebody in the house was dead.
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His aunt sat at the dining table, sobbing.
Verb
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Olivia Bithorn, 36, was crying in court Monday as the Nassau County District Attorney's Office described how her long history of alcohol abuse allegedly led to her 18-month-old son's death.
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One Jewish woman recounted taking her eight-year-old daughter to a restaurant at Bondi only for her daughter to start crying.
Verb
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The pearl-clutchers are stuck in the past, blubbering over things like the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War or the Waffen-SS slaughtering 84 American soldiers captured in Malmedy, Belgium, during the Battle of the Bulge.
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Wanting to make Lambert more than some blubbering wreck, Cartwright emphasized her common sense.
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“Sniffling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sniffling. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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