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Use nuzzle in a sentence

Definition of nuzzle:

  • (verb) move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position;
  • (verb) rub noses
  • (verb) dig out with the snout; "the pig nuzzled the truffle"

Sentence Examples:

Amelia looked quite astonished and nuzzled.

Queenie was nuzzling his arm questioningly.

Now look at them nuzzle and flirt.

He nuzzled the limp hands and whined.

The meteors nuzzle their noses in his hand.

No proud head nuzzling against her shoulder, no welcoming neigh, no pawing.

The horse nuzzled his shoulder gently, a yellow butterfly skimmed past.

He nuzzled the rancher's hand, whined, and leapt away to follow his master.

"You're a cute little fella," murmured Roger, nuzzling the kitten against his chin.

The mouth received it; the worker nuzzled with its mandibles for another finger.

It was late afternoon, cool and cloudless, with a gentle sea nuzzling at the reef.

The mother ship hove to while the tiny craft nuzzled into the waiting pocket.

He could see the boat nuzzling up against the pier, and snoring in its sleep.

I could see the boat nuzzling up against the pier, and snoring in its sleep.

He nuzzled his shaggy head against her knee, whimpering unhappily, looking up into her face.

He was wakened at dusk by the soft nuzzling of the pony against his shoulder.

Knickers had rushed to give Grant a hello nuzzle, happier to see him than Ally was.

She was guarding eight squirming gray-brown atoms, that nuzzled close against her furry body.

The big horse nuzzled his shoulder with his velvet-smooth nose, as though he would sympathize.

Softly, quietly the bow of the hulk slid up and nuzzled gently among the wreckage.

Nuzzling her hand, the great dog walked soberly by her side, as though he understood.

How long he stayed there, the filly nuzzling him like a mother, he did not know.

I nuzzled his coat buttons, then I followed his gaze, which was riveted on the boy.

And when he slept at night something came to nuzzle at his mind; faceless, formless, utterly alien.

The lion nuzzled his head over the backs of Nancy's knees and made a growling, purring sound.

They stirred, making tiny whimpering sounds and trying to move their heads to nuzzle at her fingers.

Whitey had preempted the nearer, and was hungrily nuzzling the old frayed hollows in the manger.

The frightful head whipped back at the end of the long neck, to nuzzle at the seared spot.

Slowly they responded, sitting up, nuzzling his hands, and whining as if ashamed of their recent performance.

And I went and crawled back to where he was and nuzzled my head up under his armpit.

Now, like a metallic carnivore scenting blood, the robot tracker nuzzled the gate and rebounded to nuzzle again.

The dog nuzzled the man's hand and fawned upon him, making in his throat little noises of welcome.

A beautiful mare nuzzled the colt that was nursing her and washed its back with a fondling tongue.

Saxon gobbles us with kisses, and nuzzles his nose, and we put our arms round his tawny neck.

He nuzzled into them luxuriously, and when he raised his head his nose looked as though it were dripping with paint.

Hilda nuzzled him and prodded him all the way to the beach, kissing him at the red lights.

Scotty nuzzled his coffee, and twisted his wiry five-foot-two inch frame around so that he could see the door.

Cried Barry at last, feeling, but never hinting that he felt, a hard, nuzzling snout brush by his leg.

Receiving no answering pat, the buckskin left off his nuzzling of the man's sleeve, and turned from the doorway.

If his specialty is French drama, French drama he will find, even in a footnote, and root it out and nuzzle it.

With ears bent forward and a look of bewilderment in his soft eyes, he nuzzled her neck with his velvety nose.

It walked around the crouching ego and sniffed and patted and nuzzled, whining, and then struck with its raking claws.

He nuzzled close to this body with the lovely smell, and hungrily he searched around it and found the source of life.

He lay snoring and nuzzling before the fire, dimly aware that his master was near, and asking for no greater happiness.

One of the cubs put his long thin snout into the pocket of my fur coat, and nuzzled delightedly among the crumbs.

The roaming flocks, lying in the salt grass or making their way as they nuzzle around the shepherd's red cape, don't disturb the landscape's regular flow, dwarfed, as they are, by the endless space of blue horizons and open sky.

Behold the King of France in good hands, in those of the men who, on the 20th of June, refused to nuzzle the popular brute, declaring that it had done well, that it had right on its side, and that it may begin again.

She remembered a sweet, dark-eyed woman nuzzling her little body with kisses after the bath, an hour when that mother wept as though her heart would break, and she had put little baby arms in tight embrace round her neck by way of comfort.