Thesaurus results for SNOUTS

snouts

noun

plural of snout

as in noses

the part of the face bearing the nostrils and nasal cavity dogs and their owners must grow to resemble one another, as that man and his basset hound have remarkably similar snouts

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Recent Examples of snouts Many hot weather dogs have longer snouts. — Madeline Gunderson, USA Today, 29 May 2026 Those strolling around downtown Dallas this weekend might have noticed more tails, claws and snouts than usual. — Jessica Ma, Dallas Morning News, 29 Mar. 2026 Monitors are bulkier, with longer necks, narrower snouts and thicker, more muscular tails. — Sergio Candido, Miami Herald, 24 Feb. 2026 Monitors are bulkier, with longer necks, narrower snouts and thicker, more muscular tails. — Sergio Candido, CBS News, 23 Feb. 2026 Sharks are able to detect weak electric signals using the pores on their snouts that act as electroreceptors, which helps them with navigation and prey detection. — IEEE Spectrum, 18 Dec. 2025 Then, the researchers used a computer imaging program to measure the length of the specimens’ snouts, from the tip of the nose to the tear duct, and total head length, from the tip of the nose to where the ear attaches to the head. — Amanda Schupak, CNN Money, 24 Nov. 2025 However, the trading bloc is a major exporter of pork and key supplier of byproducts such as ears, snouts, feet and other items considered to be delicacies in China. — Elaine Kurtenbach, Fortune, 16 Dec. 2025 With their snouts, the pigs would feel each beat of my heart the way a human would feel a silver dollar that had been flipped in the air then caught in an open palm, flipped and caught, coming up heads or tails, whichever side had been called when the coin was at its apogee. — Will MacKin, New Yorker, 28 June 2026

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noses

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In one scene, a pair of revellers dance naked just outside the fence of the Calvary Cemetery, thumbing their noses at the reaper while the Manhattan skyline towers in the distance.

— Chris Wiley, New Yorker, 4 July 2026
What made the difference was an angle here, a line there, small dimensional differences in eyes, noses, mouths.

— John Madson, Outdoor Life, 1 July 2026

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