as in nose
the part of the face bearing the nostrils and nasal cavity
dogs and their owners must grow to resemble one another, as that man and his basset hound have remarkably similar snouts
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Recent Examples of snout
Consider the seventeenth-century icon that showed him with, in addition to luxurious robes, human hands, and flowing locks, an unmistakable snout.
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The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 28 Aug. 2025
This fuzzy, snout-nosed, smart aleck extraterrestrial whose name was Gordon Shumway crashed in the suburban garage of the Tanner family in California after escaping from the doomed planet of Melmac, which was destroyed by nuclear war.
—Jeff Spry, Space.com, 24 Aug. 2025
The characters’ snouts are more pronounced.
—Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2025
Securing the animal by its long, jagged snout.
—Jack Prator, The Orlando Sentinel, 16 Aug. 2025
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The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 28 Aug. 2025
This fuzzy, snout-nosed, smart aleck extraterrestrial whose name was Gordon Shumway crashed in the suburban garage of the Tanner family in California after escaping from the doomed planet of Melmac, which was destroyed by nuclear war.
—Jeff Spry, Space.com, 24 Aug. 2025
The characters’ snouts are more pronounced.
—Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2025
Securing the animal by its long, jagged snout.
—Jack Prator, The Orlando Sentinel, 16 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for snout
Recent Examples of Synonyms for snout
nose
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Then my nose, feeling air go in and out and smelling the aroma of my room.—
Jack Korngold,
Rolling Stone,
28 Sep. 2025
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But even though breathing through your nose is better than breathing through your mouth, taping your mouth shut isn’t the best way to fix the issue.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
27 Sep. 2025
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“Snout.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snout. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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