With its snout close to the ground, the pig rooted around the yard for food. From LearnThat.org.
In company like Duncan’s, my snout is a rank amateur. From Wordnik.com. [For Franklin | clusterflock] Reference
It must be difficult to notice the odd £100,000 or so missing when your snout is buried so deeply in the trough. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference
Like pigs, peccaries use a specialised rhinarial disk for rooting in soil and their snout is specialised for this behaviour. From Wordnik.com. [Why putting your hand in a peccary’s mouth is a really bad idea] Reference
The snout is the only vulnerable part in an old black bear. From Wordnik.com. [Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet] Reference
"I think a good punch in the snout is a fine remedy for most insults,". From Wordnik.com. [About that AutoAdmit litigation.] Reference
The truck with the "backward" jet engine as a snout is a de-icing system. From Wordnik.com. [Dark Roasted Blend] Reference
The snout was a bulge over her mouth and nose, the mouth pads and the arrangements for breathing. From Wordnik.com. [A Gift From Earth]
Locked firmly in his jaws and coiled around his snout was a long, live snake, believed to be a deadly copperhead. From Wordnik.com. [AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories] Reference
The elongated head is set on a short, thick neck, and at the end of the snout is a disc in which the nostrils open. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 10] Reference
I think a good punch in the snout is a fine remedy for most insults, and a lot better than using the courts as a playground. From Wordnik.com. [About that AutoAdmit litigation.] Reference
His sooty black forehead was covered with prickly water-burrs, across his snout was the scar of a large and badly healed wound. From Wordnik.com. [A Hungarian Nabob] Reference
Straighter snout is also a telling feature. From Wordnik.com. [Wolfing One Down...] Reference
As soon as he was out of the cells he had his "snout" again as usual, but he was. From Wordnik.com. [Six Years in the Prisons of England] Reference
The noun "snout" suggests the shape of the land, and maybe the speaker's orientation: the nose leads when you are following an instinct. From Wordnik.com. [Poem of the week: Pier by Vona Groarke] Reference
(Poking his brown snout from the blanket's side). From Wordnik.com. [Ode to the Fleas of Walcheren] Reference
It has a snout which is prehensile, like the trunk of an elephant, but on a very small scale. From Wordnik.com. [Four Young Explorers or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics] Reference
Yes, a snout house is a house that looks like a pig. From Wordnik.com. [10 Questions for . . . Marianne Cusato] Reference
Portions of the lips, gums and snout may slough off. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
His snout was sharp and his step was light as gossamer. From Wordnik.com. [Potato Mash] Reference
His feet on the coffee table look like snout-nosed dragons. From Wordnik.com. [The cycle of being married to Somebody] Reference
A golden ring in a swine's snout, a woman fair and foolish. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 22: Proverbs The Challoner Revision] Reference
The ants meet its snout, swing their antennae, proceed cautiously. From Wordnik.com. [Ants] Reference
So he stuck the black end of his snout above the water and waited. From Wordnik.com. [Stories to Tell to Children] Reference
"Seat yourself on my snout," said the pig, "and I'll carry you over.". From Wordnik.com. [East O' the Sun and West O' the Moon] Reference
Chip grabbed the dog's snout and squeezed until it unclenched its jaws. From Wordnik.com. [Two Months Before, Two Months After] Reference
See a snout bloodied and frothed sniffing air through a tear in the belly. From Wordnik.com. [Sanctuary] Reference
Her face and head became a large snout and black wings shot out of her back. From Wordnik.com. [The Impossible Man - Ep.15: Journey and a Half] Reference
That's all he ever wanted, so it's better to forget about him, with his pig snout. From Wordnik.com. [Reindeer Nights] Reference
A burst of fire flashed from the tank's snout and the discharge hurtled toward him. From Wordnik.com. [Another Metamorphosis: A Moral Tale about Obsession] Reference
When its snout reached her legs, it opened its mouth and sucked them in like a vacuum. From Wordnik.com. [Arcana Magi - c.13: Along the Way] Reference
In the park he'd watch them circle overhead, his snout in the air as he pranced beneath them. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Grimes's "The Leash": Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature] Reference
The referee said as Dom Coqui's tongue wrapped around Al's snout and caught the gator off guard. From Wordnik.com. [The Impossible Man - Ep.19: Near the End...] Reference
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