SNOUT in a Sentence

Learn SNOUT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
Example sentences for SNOUT, such as:
1. My lip was cut and stood out like a snout.
2. All I see are pigs' snouts instead of faces, and nothing more.
3. Then Mr. Oliver crumpled the paper which he had cocked into a snout and appeared in person.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of SNOUT
snout
 n.  beaklike projection of the anterior part of the head of certain insects such as e.g. weevils
 n.  informal terms for the nose
Classic Sentence:
1  My lip was cut and stood out like a snout.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XV
2  Then Mr. Oliver crumpled the paper which he had cocked into a snout and appeared in person.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
3  He had thick eyelashes, enormous black whiskers, prominent eyes, the lower part of his face like a snout; and besides all this, that air of being on his own ground, which is indescribable.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING
4  I could see distinctly the limbs of these vermin with my naked eye, much better than those of a European louse through a microscope, and their snouts with which they rooted like swine.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV.
5  All I see are pigs' snouts instead of faces, and nothing more.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT V
Example Sentence:
1  There could be no doubt that it had a VERY turn-up nose, much more like a snout than a real nose.