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Other days, the project manager will play with her pup at home or throw a few treats in a snuffle mat.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2025

They invited a winsome six-month-old piglet named Wilma to snuffle around in the mini-meadow, which she did with tremendous focus and energy, transfixing her audience.

From New York Times ● Sep. 23, 2022

They snuffle around in the gloom, hunting for some snacks after their sleep.

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2022

Wild boar snuffle through rusted playgrounds, and kindergarten napping areas are scattered with wide-eyed, broken dolls, thick with radioactive dust.

From Slate ● Sep. 26, 2014

I glanced at Oso, who side-eyed me suspiciously from his dog bed and then put his head back down with a snuffle.

From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon

Hedgehogs may be communicating with more than just snuffles, grunts and snorts, according to scientists who have discovered the animal's hearing range.

From BBC ● Mar. 10, 2026

The sound design also helps bring the series’ creatures to life, though roars, grunts, snuffles, and subtler noises like heavy footsteps, or the rustling of raptors rushing through a field of wheat.

From The Verge ● Oct. 7, 2019

Although he seldom cries, he “grunts and snuffles and roars.”

From The New Yorker ● May 11, 2019

In time, the kids help teach Dumbo to fly, coaxing him with a feather he snuffles into his trunk: He sneezes, and the exhalation sends him up.

From New York Times ● Mar. 27, 2019

Robin snuffles my morning breath, but I don’t budge.

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan

At night, wild boars snuffled outside the tents, searching for food scraps.

From New York Times ● Jan. 24, 2020

On Sunday, in the community of Pacupac, on the north coast of Luzon, pigs marooned on a hillock snuffled for food.

From New York Times ● Sep. 16, 2018

When the film mercifully finished, I crawled into bed and stared wide-eyed at my door for most of the night while my friend snuffled peacefully, completely oblivious to my terror.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 22, 2014

He knelt down to pick up two hairless, puppies, which snuffled at his hands.

From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2010

Trying to stop crying, she snuffled and blew her nose.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

"I lay still, pretending to be dead. I could feel one of the animals snuffling at my head," she said.

From BBC ● Dec. 23, 2025

Next to arrive is her disembodied trunk, with a mind of its own, snuffling out friends and enemies and food.

From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2024

Kaunda, though, appeared unfazed by the unexpected intrusion of his personal space and continued to deliver his on-camera report, only finally bursting into laughter when the elephant’s leathery appendage started snuffling his face.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 18, 2022

Little labs, shepherds, border collies, and more, all happily snuffling and wagging along the sidewalk as they trot along with their new families.

From Slate ● Sep. 24, 2020

There was the sound of him rolling over and a series of snuffling noises, not unlike those of the creature outside.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson