The groom should also be instructed to attach the muzzle to the horse's mouth, both when taking him out to be groomed and to the rolling-ground.[4] In fact he should always muzzle him whenever he takes him anywhere without the bit. The muzzle, while it is no hindrance to respiration, prevents biting; and when attached it serves to rob the horse of opportunity for vice.[5]英文原著 · 《On Horsemanship》
Thus in the middle of their brown battalions
Muzzle to muzzle one ant meets another
Perchance to spy their journey or their fortune.英文原著 · 《Purgatorio》
"His tone was quiet enough, but about the nastiest I ever heard. I tell you, Bunny, I was glad I'd brought that revolver. It looked as though it must be mine against his, muzzle to muzzle.英文原著 · 《The Amateur Cracksman》
Grushnitski placed himself opposite me and, at a given signal, began to raise his pistol. His knees shook. He aimed right at my forehead. Un- utterable fury began to seethe within my breast. Suddenly he dropped the muzzle of the pistol and, pale as a sheet, turned to his second. "I cannot," he said in a hollow voice. "Coward!" answered the captain. A shot rang out.英文原著 · 《A Hero of Our Time》
Trent stepped out as Monty's nervous fingers were fumbling with the cork. He made a grab at the boy who glided off like an eel. Instantly he whipped out a revolver and covered him. "Come here," he cried. The boy shook his head. "No understand."
"Who sent you here with that filthy stuff?" he asked sternly. "You'd best answer me."
The Kru boy, shrinking away from the dark muzzle of that motionless revolver, was spellbound with fear. He shook his head.英文原著 · 《A Millionaire of Yesterday》
Clayton looked up, and to his horror saw the muzzle of a rifle pointed straight at his head. At the other end of it, and standing in the door, was a short, stocky figure, a head of bushy hair, and a pair of small, crafty eyes. The fierceness and suddenness of the voice, in the great silence about him, and its terrible earnestness, left him almost paralyzed.英文原著 · 《A Mountain Europa》
Where I come from, the dogs don't stop yapping, you don't just muzzle 'em.美剧 · 《Billions》
After a dog's bitten you, you either put it to sleep, or you put a muzzle on it.美剧 · 《House of Cards》
I don't particularly appreciate being muzzled.美剧 · 《Suits》
I suggest you don't think of it as muzzled so much as keeping you out of jail for the rest of your life.美剧 · 《Suits》