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How to use nuzzle in a sentence

15 example sentences · verb, noun

Nuzzle means to push or thrust (the nose or snout, face or muzzle, or head, or an object) against or into something. Example: “The horse nuzzled its foal’s head gently to wake him up.”

Examples of nuzzle by meaning

verbTo rub or touch (someone or something) with the nose, face, etc., or an object.

  • The horse nuzzled its foal’s head gently to wake him up.
  • She nuzzled her girlfriend in the cinema.
  • Within a couple of hours, pictures of General B nuzzling Kitty Jackson were being posted and traded on the Web.2010, Jennifer Egan, “Selling the General”, in A Visit from the Goon Squad, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, →ISBN, part B

verbOften followed by in or into: to press or push the nose or snout, mouth, face, etc., against or into someone or...

  • The bird nuzzled up to the wires of the cage.
  • Benjamin felt a nose nuzzling at his shoulder.1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter X, in Animal...

verbFollowed by down: to settle or lie comfortably and snugly in a bed, nest, etc.; to nestle.

  • In every store window flameth housegown, nuzzleth slipper.1953 December, Hortense Calisher, “A Christmas Carillon: A Story”, in John Fischer, editor, Harper’s Magazine, volume 207, number 1243, New...

verbTo come into close contact with someone or something.

  • It was nearly all downhill into Shrewsbury, with two intermediate stops, and a grand sequence of long curves around which Soult nuzzled her way with a quick side-to-side action.1951 October, R. S. McNaught, “Lines of Approach”, in The Railway Magazine, London: Tothill Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 706

More sentences with nuzzle

  • I'd go running in, pretend-breathless, nuzzle her neck, reach around to cup her frontage.2008, Lynn Veach Sadler, Not Dreamt of in Your Philosophy, page 134. From the entry frontage
  • Its prewar co-ops nuzzle town houses with dormered windows jutting from their top floors.2008 March 30, C. J. Hughes, “In the Many Enclaves, One Neighborhood”, in New York Times. From the entry dormered
  • He looked straight in my eyes and nuzzled the cuff of my jeans so I flipped him a rigatone.2012, Joseph Harry Silber, “Tantrums”, in Bum, [Morrisville, N.C.]: [Lulu.com], →ISBN, section 13, page 23. From the entry rigatone
  • She nuzzled between the legs—a bull calf.2003, David Gilet, The Yellow Dot Plague and Other Tales. From the entry cowling
  • She continued to nuzzle and clean the little pea-green body that was blue with white patches about his cowling parts.2003, David Gilet, The Yellow Dot Plague and Other Tales. From the entry cowling
  • The adjacent alleys were choked with tethered wagons, the teams reversed and nuzzling gnawed corn-ears over the tail-boards.1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage, published 1993, page 111. From the entry team
  • He nuzzled again so I flipped a few more; the third one landed right on his back, scattering red sauce across the shiny puppy fur.2012, Joseph Harry Silber, “Tantrums”, in Bum, [Morrisville, N.C.]: [Lulu.com], →ISBN, section 13, page 23. From the entry rigatone
  • Quickly on the trapdoor, so that his despairing blindfold, nuzzling the new room avidly for a last lookful of life, might not through linen see one detail.1983, T. H. White, The Maharajah and Other Stories, page 134. From the entry lookful

Meaning of nuzzle

  1. verb To push or thrust (the nose or snout, face or muzzle, or head, or an object) against or into something.
  2. verb To rub or touch (someone or something) with the nose, face, etc., or an object.
  3. verb Chiefly of an animal: to dig (something, especially food) out of the ground using the nose or snout; to root.

Full definition of nuzzle

Questions about nuzzle in a sentence

How do you use nuzzle in a sentence?
Nuzzle is used as a verb and noun. For example: “The horse nuzzled its foal’s head gently to wake him up.”
What is a short sentence with nuzzle?
“She nuzzled between the legs—a bull calf.”
What does nuzzle mean?
Nuzzle means to push or thrust (the nose or snout, face or muzzle, or head, or an object) against or into something.

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