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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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This Heat roster doesn’t have a player who will even sniff the third team.—
Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
29 Jan. 2026
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The drone is being designed to allow for equipping it with additional sensing gear to do things like sniff out gases produced by fires, and measure outside temperatures.—
Abhimanyu Ghoshal,
New Atlas,
27 Jan. 2026
Verb
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The newborn started sniffling, coughing, and wheezing.—
Anna Halkidis,
Parents,
4 July 2025
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That’s especially important in South Florida, where people tend to sniffle and sneeze from allergies year-round.—
Michelle Marchante,
Miami Herald,
8 May 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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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
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Horns whine in constant protest.—
Max Klaver,
Miami Herald,
23 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Grandpa snoring near the fireplace, kids watching Rudolph.—
Tiffani Jackson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
22 Dec. 2025
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This time, the dog fell asleep on the couch right next to the window, snoring the day away.—
Liz O'Connell,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 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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Their gross mismanagement of the situation ultimately led to an innocent American, who was only trying to document the actions of ICE and the Border Patrol by lawfully videoing them using his cell phone, having his young life prematurely snuffed out.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
27 Jan. 2026
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That light has been snuffed out.—
Grethel Aguila,
Miami Herald,
26 Jan. 2026
Verb
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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
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But in this version of the photo, Levy Armstrong is pictured sobbing, with visible tears streaming down her cheeks and her mouth open.—
Maggie Harrison Dupré,
Futurism,
22 Jan. 2026
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“Snuffle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snuffle. Accessed 4 Feb. 2026.
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