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.

  • 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.

  • snout ( v .) To cut the nostrils of a pig to weaken the snout.

  • 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.

  • Long it certainly is, at 1,250 km (776 miles) from snout to tail.


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