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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.
—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
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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Photos show the stacks of cash were well disguised among other boxes in the trailer, but a drug-sniffing K-9 was not fooled, police said.—
Mark Price,
Charlotte Observer,
5 Feb. 2026
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Security measures include comprehensive surveillance, bomb-sniffing dogs, and aerial radiation surveys.—
Terry Collins,
USA Today,
5 Feb. 2026
Verb
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Michtom persisted, ending up, in 1937, with a doll that could drink, sniffle, cry, and pee into a diaper that little girls delighted in changing.—
Alexandra Schwartz,
New Yorker,
9 Feb. 2026
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The blinds closed at 10:37 a.m., but the microphone remained on, broadcasting sounds of shuffling and sniffling.—
Kirsten Fiscus,
Nashville Tennessean,
11 Dec. 2025
Verb
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The dialogue is as disarmingly earnest as that between two strangers snorting coke in a bathroom.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
15 Jan. 2026
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Other episodes of the series will follow a bodybuilder obsessed with having a bulky physique, a woman who blends and snorts all her food, individuals addicted to eating grass, makeup and cardboard, and even a veteran with PTSD who filled his home with more than a hundred snakes.—
Vanessa Etienne,
PEOPLE,
17 Dec. 2025
Verb
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But students who are spending their time protesting, whining about the grading system and seeking easy classes don’t seem to fit that mold.—
Mitch Zimmer,
Washington Post,
3 Feb. 2026
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The children jumped for joy after winning a game of cornhole; others fell and whined in defeat, but got up to play again.—
Christopher Buchanan,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Jan. 2026
Verb
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In the last 20 minutes, Iron Lung finally arrives somewhere almost interesting, but by that point, a man sitting in the row ahead of me had been loudly snoring for more than an hour.—
Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
4 Feb. 2026
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Grandpa snoring near the fireplace, kids watching Rudolph.—
Tiffani Jackson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
22 Dec. 2025
Verb
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Faced with the sniveling sum of these failures, Garfield is startled but compassionate.—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
7 Nov. 2025
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Throughout many revealing conversations, the braggadocious zeal of Poseidon and Zeus, the sexy aloofness of Aphrodite and Dionysus, and the sniveling bitchery of Hermes and Hypnos were endearing, but all gave way to flawed people who grew deeply over time.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
27 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Maye had three turnovers in Super Bowl 60, including a ghastly, unforced interception that snuffed a semi-decent comeback chance.—
Tom Krasovic,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 Feb. 2026
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One way to do that would be to completely snuff out the Seattle run game.—
Andrew Greif,
NBC news,
8 Feb. 2026
Verb
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Around the grave of one young man, his mother and grandmother quietly sob, his friends crouched down by the small mat of flower stems.—
Frederik Pleitgen,
CNN Money,
3 Feb. 2026
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In the photo released by the White House, Armstrong is sobbing, her mouth hanging open in despair.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Jan. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Snuffle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snuffle. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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