snuffle
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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
We fed Typo from a snuffle mat, which encourages him to root around with his nose for food.
From Slate ● Jun. 21, 2022
They snuffle around in the gloom, hunting for some snacks after their sleep.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2022
I hear him snuffle and slurp when he eats and drinks.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
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
He’s small, all white, and he snuffles like a dog.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
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
Victor snuffled and wiped his icy nose with his sleeve.
From "The Thief Lord" by Cornelia Funke
"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
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
I’m far removed from Pleistocene Siberia, but I thought I wasn’t a dog person until I was introduced to a snuffling puppy who needed some food and a warm place to sleep.
From Slate ● Feb. 17, 2021
The hot snuffling of the Dobermans closing in fast.
From Golf Digest ● Apr. 9, 2020
Taran, snuffling and shivering, looked toward the waiting hills.
From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander
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