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Hatchlings have big eyes, snubby little snouts and can fit in the palm of your hand.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2022
The snubby nose of the broad-winged aircraft looked as if it had been flattened against the white cliffs of Dover.
From Time Magazine Archive
At the front door stands another Guardian, with one of those snubby machine guns slung over his shoulder.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
Tuff's nose was flat and wide and snubby.
From Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York A Series of Stories and Sketches Portraying Many Singular Phases of Metropolitan Life by Beard, Harry
The nose was short and snubby; the nostrils wide and expanded, as if the feature had been pitched against the face in a moment of ill-temper, and flattened by the force.
From Jack Hinton The Guardsman by Lever, Charles James
But Goody, who had gathered many a pinecone for our feeding-boxes and, her snub nose pressed snubbier yet against the window pane, had watched the black-capped rolypolies twitch out the winged seeds, stood her ground.
From Sigurd Our Golden Collie and Other Comrades of the Road by Bates, Katharine Lee
It's broader, and flatter, and snubbier than ever.
From Dawn by Haggard, Henry Rider
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