How To Use Snuffling In A Sentence
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Elliot still was snuffling in his punctured sleep.
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He lifted the bag of diamonds and turned it upside down with one surprisingly swift movement: like little cockroaches, the jewels escaped and beetled off in all directions: “There, ya snuffling swine, truffles fer ya!”
At a Welsh Wedding
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Some people nuisance of seasonal hay fever, snuffling and sneezing as pollen flows through the air.
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The dog buried his nose up to his ears in the cotton fabric, huffing and snuffling as he drank in the scent.
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Unwilling to say too much in case the boy, fading from sobs to snuffling, was listening, Al rolled his eyes.
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The indistinct noise of the city floated in, the dolorous, snuffling air of an accordeon, the mooing of cows could be heard; somebody's soles were scraping dryly and a ferruled cane rapped resoundingly on the flags of the pavement; lazily and irregularly the wheels of a cabman's victoria, rolling at a pace through Yama, would rumble by, and all these sounds mingled with a beauty and softness in the pensive drowsiness of the evening.
Yama: the pit
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The snuffling of the thin, black, unalarmed dog near his legs.
THE LAST RAVEN
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The brilliant dare-devil from Italy despised alike the raw, limitary, reputable, priggish undergraduates and the dull, snuffling, smug-looking, fussy dons.
The Life of Sir Richard Burton
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He started snuffling in the grass and scratching at a few things.
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Still snuffling and coughing from the Creeping Crud.
Lather. Rinse. Repeat.
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I started laughing but it came out like a weird snorting, snuffling sound because my jaws were clamped together.
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She lay facing the wall, snuffling quietly, tousling her kitty's head.
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Carrie was sitting at the kitchen table, crying, and snuffling and blowing her nose.
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The girl was behind me, snuffling, almost completely submersed in the wardrobe.
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Last time it was that ‘When She Loved Me’ song, which had half the audience snuffling; this time it's the last four minutes.
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The kitchen was filled instantly with a loud snuffling noise, interspersed with grunts.
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Everyone's snuffling, everyone's hot, everyone wants nothing more than to repose on the sofa and have prepackaged entertainment piped down our eyeballs.
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The bear is snuffling and snorting and looking around the picnic table for more food.
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A few moments later, I felt a cold, wet nose snuffling in the palm of my hand.
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While the appellant testified the complainant had been snuffling, she testified she was crying because he had intimidated her to the point of exhaustion, frustration and fear.
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There, lit by the glow of braziers and ‘towers of light’, or candelabras, were Richard, his partner Pam, their snuffling pugs Bijou and Ioda, and a quartet of soignée French guests.
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Even unfortunate hay-fever sufferers bravely get in on the action, sniffling and snuffling under the branches behind the haphazard protection of white masks.
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The next morning they wake up and go around the whole farm snuffling at the earth, rolling in the dew, eating the grass and so on, overwhelmed with excitement that it is all theirs.
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All of a sudden the garden crashed and crackled with the sound of something huge, and the sound of breathing and snuffling increased into low rumbling, with an occasional bellow, as the rotten throats tried forgetfully the bull-cry of the Nerakan warriors.
Virginity
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I lay with my arms wrapped tightly around my chest, listening to the shack moving in the wind, and animals snuffling outside.
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Another tear replaced the first, and another, then another and another, until I was snuffling, low whines coming from my throat.
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I won't be any good if I keep snuffling and sneezing and feeling worse.
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It is less a macho comedy than what you might call a bromantic melodrama, an unabashed weepie with enough beer, sports, fistfights and cars to reassure the snuffling he-men in the audience that their tears are Not ... well, you know.
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Then I could hear one thing more: the Dog was snuffling.
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As he parted them, he heard the familiar snuffling as Miguelito fed cocaine into his nose.
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He did not look at Amulya but cast an irritable glance at the labourers who were taking their time, and at the stringy horse snuffling inside a nosebag.
An Atlas of Impossible Longing
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When the first birds woke I pretended to sleep, wrapped tightly, wind and animals snuffling outside.
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He could hear himself snuffling like a sick herdbeast.
The Ringworld Throne
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We see him snuffling drams of new wine, parsing their bouquets for ‘a soupçon of asparagus’.
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Anyhow, ten this morning he heard the radio click on then came snuffling at the bottom of the duvet to get me up and out of bed.
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Here is Unmitigated Local England, local people enjoying local pleasures - sheep tweeked and preened for the sheepwalk (one judging category reads: Three Threaves Mule or Masham), foxhounds snuffling for the biscuits in a huntsman's coat.
Show Sunday
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I could see something snuffling in the dark, I could hear the breathing but I didn't know what it was, didn't even know how I'd gotten here.
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My mother and I watched the film in the early-evening gloom, snuffling, our noses emptying steadily into our Kleenexes.
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In my younger days I was haunted by the ghosts of piglets, and the memory of those phantom piglets snuffling at my feet remains a source of trauma for me even today.
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Now they craunch it, and crowd snuffling along through the corn-hills!
Summerfield or, Life on a Farm
