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• The impact velocity of the projectile was obtained with a velocimeter installed between the muzzle and the target.From the entry velocimeter
• Made from iron, it had spikes across the tongue and acted as a muzzle.2024 June 4, Flavia Kate Peters, Barbara Meiklejohn-Free, 2025 Witch's Diary - Northern Hemisphere: Seasonal Planner to Reclaiming the…. From the entry witch's bridle
• The other lunged to the side of the second and clamped one clawed hand around its muzzle.2017 April, Marie Brennan [pseudonym; Bryn Neuenschwander], chapter 10, in Within the Sanctuary of Wings: A Memoir by Lady Trent, New…. From the entry ruff
• It may be something ancoral, something firm and steady and muzzled by its own gravity.2016, Dan Cluchey, The Life of the World to Come, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 143. From the entry anchoral
• A dished or upturned muzzle is considered a fault in the Redbone Coonhound.2013, Edward M. Gilbert Jr, Patricia H. Gilbert, Encyclopedia of K9 Terminology. From the entry Brittany
• But this administration is trying to spin scientific data and muzzle scientists toward that end.2006 February 9, “The Politics of Science”, in The Washington Post, page A22. From the entry spin
• In both mandrills and drills, males have long muzzles with pronounced maxillary ridges and long tooth rows.1999, John G. Fleagle, Primate Adaptation and Evolution, 2nd edition, Elsevier (Academic Press), page 200. From the entry mandrill
• "Why, he's daid!" he exclaimed, poking the lion with the muzzle of his gun.1919, Henry Herbert Knibbs, The Ridin' Kid from Powder River. From the entry daid
• However, it did not explode from the muzzle of the gun, but from the middle of the spear shaft!2020, Da Ba, Beauty's Special Magical Doctor. From the entry sandgun
• Behind them, blindfolded and muzzled, came catoblepones.2019, Joel Puga, The Journeys of the Sorcerer. From the entry catoblepas
• One man dropped his rifle from high up and it javelined down, with the muzzle burying itself deep in the ground.2017, Iain Hollis, “Life begins at 40”, in Box of Frogs: Memoirs of a Canoeing Cyclist, Kibworth Beauchamp, Leicestershire: Matador…. From the entry javelin
• The drawback to this design was the need for a crosswedge in the slide near the muzzle, for assembly and disassembly.2016, Syed Ramsey, Tools of War: History of Weapons in Early Modern Times, →ISBN. From the entry crosswedge
• The muzzle of the Pug is not upfaced.2013, Edward M. Gilbert, Jr; Patricia H. Gilbert, Encyclopedia of K9 Terminology. From the entry upfaced
• The muzzle should be short, blunt, but not upfaced.2013, The Maltese Dog - A Complete Anthology of the Dog. From the entry upfaced
• The gun dropped limply from his hand onto the soggy grass, where it hissed as steam rose from the hot muzzle.2011 December 7, Paul Wordsworth, The Logic Bomb, Andrews UK Limited, →ISBN. From the entry sile
• As you approach the door outside the funnel, you get nuts-to-butts and keep the muzzles of your weapons pointed up.2007, Luis Giampietri, Bill Salisbury, Lorena Ausejo, 41 Seconds to Freedom: An Insider's Account of the Lima Hostage Crisis, 1996-97…. From the entry nuts to butts
• One was a "small, decidedly vulpine race," characterized by prominent, pointed, erect ears, pointed muzzle, silky hair and typically whitish belly.2002, Bryan David Cummins, First nations, first dogs. From the entry foxish
• There he stopped, dipped his muzzle into the water and, as always when he was very thirsty, drank in repeated triplets.2002, Irving Townsend, chapter 8, in Duffy: Adventures of a Collie, Hampton Falls, N.H.: Beeler Large Print, →ISBN, page 62. From the entry glp
• The muzzle is strong and squared off, never snipy.1993, Pure-bred Dogs, American Kennel Gazette - Volume 110, page 146. From the entry snipy
• She had her knees up, resting her wrists on them; the pepperbox muzzle of a flechette pistol emerged from her hands.1984, William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl; book 1), New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN, page 21. From the entry pepperbox
• The black muzzle went 'wuffle, wuffle' over the sand and the man saw the short hairs bristle along its spine.1942, “BB”, in The Litte Grey Men, Eyre & Spottiswoode. From the entry wuffle
• A red glowing reticle crosshaired whatever the laser's muzzle was pointed at, together with flickering numbers giving range, bearing, and probable targetID.2014, Ian Douglas, The Complete Legacy Trilogy. From the entry crosshair
• At the Mission Emergency Hospital, the sick comic raunched out the medical staff so badly that a doctor muzzled him with a bandage during treatment.2012, Ronald K. L. Collins, David M. Skover, The Trials of Lenny Bruce. From the entry raunch out
• The gesture of licking and nipping a leader's muzzle is similar to the food-begging behavior of wolf pups and may be related to it.1987, Sylvia A. Johnson with Alice Aamodt, Wolf Pack: Tracking Wolves in the Wild, page 41. From the entry leader
• A sick-looking dog sat in the middle of the road, head down, sides bellowsing, white foam dripping from its muzzle to the heat-shimmering pavement.1978, Stephen King, chapter 25, in The Stand, New York: Random House, published 2012, page 196. From the entry bellows
• It comes in the form of a mask, or a harmless owl, or a punning resemblance in the soft muzzle of a horseface.1971, ARTnews, page 28. From the entry horseface
• Oddy has the squarest muzzle and best filled-in foreface that we have ever seen on a Bulldog, while his "upface" expression is marvelous.1926, The Dog Fancier - Volume 35, page 27. From the entry upface
• Perhaps stunned by what Steve Bannon, the MAGA strategist, calls the “muzzle velocity” of action and orders, Democrats have had a difficult time addressing the disconnect between what Mr.2025 March 5, David E. Sanger, quoting Steve Bannon, “Trump Celebrates His Disruption but Slides Over Its Costs”, in The New York Times…. From the entry muzzle velocity
• A small, lightweight round, such as a .22 LR, generates very manageable recoil and muzzle flip (how much the nose of the gun flips up when you fire it).2015, Tara Dixon Engel, The Handgun Guide for Women, page 33. From the entry flip
• The No. 1 gunner inserted the charge and shot into the muzzle, No. 2 (a Handlanger) rammed it home and cleared the barrel with the sponge after firing.2003, David Hollins, Austrian Napoleonic Artillery 1792–1815 (New Vanguard; 72), Oxford: Osprey Publishing, →ISBN, page 14. From the entry handlanger
• In fear of disease and in the interest of his health man will be muzzled and masked like a vicious dog, and that without any murmur of complaint.1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress. From the entry murmur
• “If punching parrots on the beak wasn't too painful for pleasure, I'd land you a sockdolager on the muzzle that ud lay you out till Christmas.”1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 68. From the entry sockdolager
• Major Pack-Beresford and other officers were shot down, and every unhorsed man remained necessarily as a prisoner under the very muzzles of the riflemen in the donga.1900, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Halt at Bloemfontein”, in The Great Boer War, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC, page 349. From the entry donga

Meaning of muzzle

1. noun The protruding part of an animal's head which includes the nose, mouth and jaws.
2. noun A person's mouth.
3. noun A device used to prevent an animal from biting or eating, which is worn on its snout.

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How do you use muzzle in a sentence?

Muzzle is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Those who want to muzzle everyone else are likely nothing less than pseudovirtuous.”

What is a short sentence with muzzle?

“Behind them, blindfolded and muzzled, came catoblepones.”

What does muzzle mean?

Muzzle means the protruding part of an animal's head which includes the nose, mouth and jaws.