Example Sentences

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Lying on his side on a dark summer night earlier this year, Sir David Attenborough is watching a hedgehog snuffling around an urban garden.

From BBC • Dec. 18, 2025

Later, back in the lab, Dr. Bowman and his colleagues would discover that several of the snouts snuffling around this busy barn in New Lexington, Ohio, were harboring influenza.

From New York Times • Jul. 25, 2023

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

A light snore, which might have been the nun on duty, a little snuffling and whimpering—no more than that.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman