Example sentences for: snout

How can you use “snout” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Human evolution was characterized by the gradual ascendance of vision and reduction of smell, evidenced in the anthropological record by the progressive diminution of the snout as the eyes moved to the middle of the face to subserve depth vision (Jones et al.

  • Studies are needed of the evolutionary pressures on this route in addition to the pressures on the evolution of the snout.

  • English prison slang is readily enough available in any prison drama or comedy: screw is a guard, snout is tobacco, nonce is a child molester or other sex offender, and nick or porridge is prison itself.

  • They say that if you rub it’s burnished snout, and throw a coin in the fountain, your wish for a return trip to Florence will come true.

  • As reported in The N.Y. Times , “Tonga has decided against calling its new decimal currency unit the dollar because the native word tola also means a `pig's snout,' the `soft end of a coconut,' or, in vulgar language, a `mouth.


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