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Recent Examples of snuffle
In front of them, warthogs snuffled around in the grass.
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Flora Stubbs,
Travel + Leisure,
8 July 2025
Next to arrive is her disembodied trunk, with a mind of its own, snuffling out friends and enemies and food.
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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.
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Sam Walters,
Discover Magazine,
26 Sep. 2023
There is an amazing array of puzzles that require dogs to roll, shake, lick or snuffle a product to access food or treats.
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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.
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David Kindy,
Smithsonian Magazine,
20 July 2021
Click for more > Clearly, this is no ordinary sea creature quietly snuffling the currents.
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IEEE Spectrum,
28 May 2010
Flora Stubbs,
Travel + Leisure,
8 July 2025
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
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
Click for more > Clearly, this is no ordinary sea creature quietly snuffling the currents.
—
IEEE Spectrum,
28 May 2010
Recent Examples of Synonyms for snuffle
Verb
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This could include sniffing around more than usual or barking and growling at odd places like piles of leaves.
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Luz inserts the construction pole; Susana sniffs.
Verb
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Who among us has not experienced an inability to ignore repetitive tapping, clicking, chewing, smacking, and sniffling?
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Jurors reached for piles of tissues and audibly sniffled in the silence that fell between the audio playback, local outlets reported.
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There's a laugh-until-you-snort scene in which Harry gets an alien bug inside of him.
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Depending on what your child does, a Fingerling might blink, giggle, shake its head, snort or even burp.
Verb
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And that’s nothing to whine about.
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Jessie whines about the good old days all the time — how fun is that?
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Being in the same room can make issues worse, with choosing what to watch on television and snoring being the biggest annoyances.
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Some specific signs to look for include loud snoring, gasping for air during sleep, or falling asleep while driving or at random times during the day, Brangman added.
Verb
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All this in an environment where politicians like Jeff Bridges (running for state treasurer who lives in the Cherry Creek school district) whine and snivel about his associates in the teachers’ union not having the funds to effectively teach our kids.
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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).
Verb
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Just that word, process, can throttle and snuff the life out of the subject.
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But this week’s latest exchange of fire over who controls the Strait of Hormuz threatens to snuff out the deal just weeks after it was signed.
Verb
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At one point, the narrator, embarrassed by his own act of cruelty, gives a sobbing woman all his money and then leaves her alone in a hotel room.
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Another mother sobbed and collapsed in grief as the bodies of her 3- and 10-year-old children were wrapped in blankets and carried away.
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“Snuffle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snuffle. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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