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How to use snout in a sentence

39 example sentences · noun, verb

Snout means the long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast, as of pigs. Example: “The pig rooted around in the dirt with its snout.”

Examples of snout by meaning

nounThe long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast, as of pigs.

  • The pig rooted around in the dirt with its snout.

nounThe front of the prow of a ship or boat.

  • He saw that it was a battered-looking affair of the prahm type, with a blunt snout, and like the parent ship, had recently been painted a vivid green.1944, Miles Burton, The Three Corpse Trick, chapter 5

nounThe nozzle of a pipe, hose, etc.

  • If you place the snout right into the bucket, it won't spray as much.

nounTobacco; cigarettes.

  • Also he was "doing his nut" for some "snout." I said I would provide cigarettes.2000, Joe Randolph Ackerley, P N Furbank, We Think the World of You
  • "What about some snout, then?" "No, thanks." He laughed.2004, Allan Sillitoe, New and Collected Stories

More sentences with snout

  • Furthermore, adult females present a well-defined acuminate shape in snout, compared with the subacuminate snout in males.2015 November 25, “Insights from Integrative Systematics Reveal Cryptic Diversity in Pristimantis Frogs (Anura: Craugastoridae) from the…. From the entry subacuminate
  • It looks like a pig snout, and we call it the Schuko socket, seen in Figure 8.7.2015, Bruno Skvorc, Jump Start PHP Environment: Master the World's Most Popular Language, →ISBN. From the entry Schuko
  • There was a smell in my snout that I wanted to get rid of.2013, Sarah Hines-Stephens, Jane B. Mason, A Dog and His Girl Mysteries #2: Dead Man's Best Friend, Scholastic Inc., →ISBN. From the entry sneeze
  • It flew up using its tentacles and drifted down onto Ryan's snout.2010, A. J. Traxler, Echoes of the Shadows. From the entry squidling
  • Long strings of yellow dangled from Jorn's houndish snout, and his eyes were red.2008, Jeffrey Overstreet, Cyndere's Midnight. From the entry houndish
  • Goblin sharks have a long, flat, pointy snout and their jaws protrude when they are eating.2007, Kimm Bellotto, Katie Kubesh, Niki McNeil, Sharks, page 8. From the entry goblin shark
  • Its body is covered in fine fur, and its face has a dog-like snout and ear.2002, Sovereign Stone: Bestiary of Loerem, Lake Geneva, Wis.: Sovereign Press, →ISBN, page 56, column 1. From the entry dogman
  • The females have a long snout shaped somewhat like a maple leaf.2000, The World Book Encyclopedia (volume 17, page 526). From the entry langaha
  • The gavialids, found in India, eat fish and have slender snouts.1999, Patricia L. Barnes-Svarney, Thomas E. Svarney, The Oryx Guide to Natural History: The Earth and All Its Inhabitants, page 178. From the entry gavialid
  • But the mirthless laugh is the dianoetic laugh, down the snout — Haw! — so.1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC. From the entry haw
  • The world 'as got me snouted jist a treat; Crool Forchin's dirty left 'as smote me soul.1915, C.J. Dennis, The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke, published 1916, page 13. From the entry left
  • We'll come back every day 'til that snout of yours is worn to the bone.” “It doesn't have a bone.2025 September 15, David A. Goodman, “The Trouble with Truffles” (14:46 from the start), in Futurama, season 10, episode 9, spoken by…. From the entry booty
  • The other half of the true bandicoot family are the short-nosed bandicoots, which, as their name suggests, have short snouts.2024, Andres Salazar, Strange Creatures: Exploring the Wonderful and Weird Animals ..., page 89. From the entry true bandicoot
  • I was buried with only my snotty snout sticking out.2011, James V. Shubert, Salami's Fire: A Piggy's Trial by Fire, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 31. From the entry pigsicle
  • Male langahas have a conelike stub on the snout.2000, The World Book Encyclopedia (volume 17, page 526). From the entry langaha
  • Today they are separated from that group by virtue of their long snouts, heibivotous dentition and different digestive tract.1997, M. G. L. Mills, Lex Hes, The Complete Book of Southern African Mammals, page 62. From the entry elephant shrew
  • His long snout and extra-rich sense of smell had sniffed out a whole batch of homicides and dogicides.1995, Jeff Noon, Pollen, New York: Crown Publishers, →ISBN, page 26. From the entry dogicide
  • Yew c'n git out a' my 'ouse, quick as yew like, or I'll fist yew one in the snout!'1986, Audrey Whiting, Gal Audrey, page 24. From the entry hold yew hard
  • The blue shark is long in almost all respects; long snout, long tail, long body, and especially long, curved pectoral fins.1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 126. From the entry blue shark
  • Ever had someone put some snout ash in your rosie?1962, Derek Raymond [Robin Cook], The Crust On Its Uppers, London: Serpent's Tail, published 2000, →ISBN, page 21. From the entry rosie
  • "You'd better have shoved your grey snout in a hornets' nest, Badger, than suggest that I am the blab," said Nikabrik.1951, C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia. From the entry blab
  • As the slain foxes dropped into the water the snouts of river crocodiles popped up and devoured them.1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 154. From the entry fox
  • His snout lifted barked at the wavenoise, herds of seamorse.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 3: Proteus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part I [Telemachia], page 46. From the entry sea morse
  • The tusks of the strap-toothed whale grow up and across the snout, like a bone ribbon that ties the mouth nearly shut.2021 March 30, J. B. MacKinnon, “An Entire Group of Whales Has Somehow Escaped Human Attention”, in The Atlantic. From the entry teuthivorous
  • Checking out the studen, its calves feet and pork snouts floating languidly in purple gelatin, I gulped and said, “I think I’ll pass.2010, Glen Berkowitz, chapter 7, in Mayhem at the Hampton Classic: A Gabriel Fortuna Hamptons Adventure, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, →ISBN. From the entry studen
  • In the pool, something is poking up out of the whip-creamy froth: a black nose, a long snout, a flat head, two tufted ears.2008, Ysabeau S. Wilce, Flora’s Dare: How a Girl of Spirit Gambles All to Expand Her Vocabulary, Confront a Bouncing Boy Terror, and Try…. From the entry whip-creamy
  • His lips still curled back from his luteous teeth like old cabbage leaves, his pointed snout tested the air like a trunk.1990 October, Ned Wynn, chapter 1, in We Will Always Live in Beverly Hills: Growing Up Crazy in Hollywood, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow…. From the entry luteous
  • Set is represented as having the features of a fantastic beast with a thin, curved snout, straight, square-cut ears and a stiff forked tail.1972, New Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology, page 20. From the entry Typhonian
  • Like the "Kas," these locomotives were originally semi-streamlined, although their conical snout was not nearly so hideous as the sloping mock-radiators adorning the bigger engines.1954 August, J. B. Snell, “The New Zealand Government Railways—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 561. From the entry hideous
  • The locomotive was black, an ungainly contraption led by the triangular snout of the cowcatcher, though there would be few animals where this engine was headed.2016, Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad, Fleet (2017), page 83. From the entry cowcatcher
  • Potoroos resemble bettongs, both in size and lifestyle, but the potoroos have a more tapered head and pointed snout, a less robust build and a shorter tail.1998, Terence Lindsey, Mammals of Australia, New Holland, published 2004, page 41. From the entry potoroo
  • There was the noise of a bolt shot back, and the door opened a few inches, enough to show a long snout and a pair of sleepy blinking eyes.1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, “Mr. Badger”, in The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 69. From the entry bolt
  • Up we go!' till at last, pop! his snout came out into the sunlight, and he found himself rolling in the warm grass of a great meadow.1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 2. From the entry pop
  • Although the snouts of moles twitch less than those of shrews, particularly elephant shrews, Dobson was enamoured of what he considered the more “moley” twitching of the snouts of moles.2008, Frank Key, Gravitas, Punctilio, Rectitude & Pippy Bags, page 215. From the entry moley

Meaning of snout

  1. noun The long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast, as of pigs.
  2. noun The front of the prow of a ship or boat.
  3. noun A person's nose.

Full definition of snout

Questions about snout in a sentence

How do you use snout in a sentence?
Snout is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The pig rooted around in the dirt with its snout.”
What is a short sentence with snout?
“"What about some snout, then?" "No, thanks." He laughed.”
What does snout mean?
Snout means the long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast, as of pigs.

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