snuffle

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Recent Examples of snuffle In front of them, warthogs snuffled around in the grass. Flora Stubbs, Travel + Leisure, 8 July 2025 Click for more > Clearly, this is no ordinary sea creature quietly snuffling the currents. IEEE Spectrum, 28 May 2010 Next to arrive is her disembodied trunk, with a mind of its own, snuffling out friends and enemies and food. Jesse Green, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2024 Elephants are trampling the thirsty turf, sending sprays of dust into the dry savannah air, and buffalos are bent with their snuffling snouts to the ground. Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 26 Sep. 2023 Local residents popped in to buy vegetables from a shack built out of recycled materials, while an enormous sow snuffled in the heather beside a vegetable garden. Hisako Ueno, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2023 There is an amazing array of puzzles that require dogs to roll, shake, lick or snuffle a product to access food or treats. Melanie D.g. Kaplan, Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2023 Two canines in Massachusetts are the first to be used by a law enforcement agency to snuffle the virus. David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 July 2021 At night, wild boars snuffled outside the tents, searching for food scraps. New York Times, 24 Jan. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for snuffle
Verb
  • Most of them haven’t sniffed a national title, either.
    Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 July 2025
  • The terminology was familiar to locals when trying to sniff out stray Mancs around football matches and the crowd loved it — although one of them scaled a 260ft floodlight and refused to come down as the anthemic bass from Loose Fit’s opening chords followed.
    Andy Mitten, New York Times, 30 July 2025
Verb
  • The newborn started sniffling, coughing, and wheezing.
    Anna Halkidis, Parents, 4 July 2025
  • That’s especially important in South Florida, where people tend to sniffle and sneeze from allergies year-round.
    Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 8 May 2025
Verb
  • After sliding into third with a three-run triple, Voit pretended to snort the third-base chalk as if snorting a line of cocaine.
    Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 19 July 2025
  • Mendoza-Gonzalez said Bos had come to his home in the 700 block of Yeoman Street on Feb. 19, and sometime that night had snorted some sort of a drug.
    Clifford Ward, Chicago Tribune, 15 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Supercharger whine simply never gets old, and after burning through over half a tank of gas in one sitting, coolant temps never got anywhere near concerning.
    Peter Nelson, ArsTechnica, 1 Aug. 2025
  • Even in the quietest mode with valving closed down, the engine and exhaust and supercharger whine go barking mad with the lightest blip of throttle, making the temptation to heel-toe through every downshift almost inescapable.
    Michael Teo Van Runkle, Forbes.com, 30 July 2025
Verb
  • That’s why one possible sign of OSA is snoring, which can occur when air tries to pass through the narrowed airway.
    Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
  • Lopez, the next booking officer on duty, heard Thomas snoring loudly during his shift.
    Ashley Luthern, jsonline.com, 8 July 2025
Verb
  • Dae-ho then pulls his blade out and slashes at Gi-hun’s arm, abandoning his sniveling demeanor to scream that Gi-hun is the one who is responsible for killing everyone.
    Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 27 June 2025
  • In league with its sniveling human colleague Gabriel (Esai Morales, cackling with evil intent as if being paid by the cackle), The Entity is hacking into the world’s nuclear defense systems and taking control of the missiles, one paralyzed and panicking nation at a time.
    Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune, Boston Herald, 22 May 2025
Verb
  • An opportunity to add on was snuffed out when Jung Hoo Lee’s low line drive to left was caught on a dive by Suwinski, stranding Adames on third base.
    Christian Babcock, Mercury News, 30 July 2025
  • Until then, early AI interactions are likely to recommend code that is not completely up to snuff.
    Arthur Hicken, Forbes.com, 28 July 2025
Verb
  • The firm had lost more than two-thirds of its staff; Lutnick sobbed during TV interviews while desperately trying to keep the business from going under.
    Antonia Hitchens, New Yorker, 21 July 2025
  • The scene inside — Jota’s parents sobbing, Cardoso stricken by grief — was one of almost unbearable sadness.
    Jack Lang, New York Times, 6 July 2025

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“Snuffle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snuffle. Accessed 5 Aug. 2025.

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