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Example sentences for "snarls"

Lexicographically close words:
snares; snaring; snarl; snarled; snarling; snarly; snatch; snatched; snatcher; snatchers
  1. They made him grunt funny little grunts and snarl funny little impatient snarls in his sleep, you know.

  2. He seems to disdain the petty advantages which go with the invention of novel plots, extravagant characters and unprecedented snarls of circumstance.

  3. The crowd was edging in, not swiftly but sullenly and there were faces through whose snarls showed such yellow fangs as suggested a wolf pack.

  4. He heard the snarls and growls of bestial combat, and it was with a feeling of no little horror that he realized that the sounds coming from the human throat of the battling man could scarce be distinguished from those of the panther.

  5. And, when I walked across the bridge, I snapped my fingers in contempt, as at a dog that snarls safely on a leash.

  6. His wife was dressing in another room, keeping three maids busy with safety pins and powder-puffs, and getting all of the snarls out of her hair.

  7. All night long creatures fought below him for the few remaining drops of moisture in the discarded shells, but he knew that he was safe, and their snarls and bickerings did not alarm him.

  8. You are reported for standing at the doors," he snarls at me.

  9. I'll report to him that you detained me with an idle question," Wilson snarls back.

  10. At the same moment the yelp of a dog was followed by a succession of snarls and screams so nearly human that Rand started toward the thicket crying: "Quick, the dog is worrying a child.

  11. As Rand entered the brush the sounds of the struggles and the snarls and screams were intermixed with the loud commands of the Indian to the dog.

  12. They sniffed at him from head to foot, and then, with a ferocious outburst of snarls and yells, flung themselves upon him.

  13. She pressed nearer, and though the white teeth grazed her wrist, she drove home a thrust that changed the beast's snarls into a howl of pain.

  14. Their snarls and yells had subsided to whines, which seemed to be coming from a greater distance.

  15. This assertion was met by an outburst of snarls and yells that made all start back and crouch down again in their sheltering hollow.

  16. Mabel; "how it snarls and bites and snaps at anybody who tries to pet it?

  17. Pym and his snarls To the Devil that pricks on such pestilent carles!

  18. Whereunto There snarls an "Ever laughing in thy sleeve, "Pert Tsaddik?

  19. As he advanced, he heard more and more loudly the savage snarls of the two hyenas, mingled with the scraping and scratching of their paws upon wood.

  20. He had heard the savage, bestial snarls and roars of combat, and he had realized with a shudder that he could not differentiate between those of his guardian and those of the hairy ape.

  21. Here he paused a moment before the sapling barrier which Bukawai had set up, listening to the snarls and growls which came faintly from the far recesses of the cavern.

  22. Then he heard a great outcry of snarls and yelps.

  23. At such moments, when his dogs snarled, the whole circle would be agitated, the wolves coming to their feet and pressing tentatively forward, a chorus of snarls and eager yelps rising about him.

  24. He was greeted with snarls by his kind, with curses and stones by his gods.

  25. A hasty drawing back always resulted, accompanied by angry yelps and frightened snarls when a well-aimed brand struck and scorched a too daring animal.

  26. If a dog only snarls at another, the lip is generally retracted on one side alone, namely towards his enemy.

  27. When a man sneers or snarls at another, is the corner of the upper lip over the canine or eye tooth raised on the side facing the man whom he addresses?

  28. Beth took down a brush and brushed out the snarls while she talked.

  29. Beth brushed snarls so vigorously that she winced once or twice.

  30. Then a series of savage snarls and growls and more shrieks--the combined shrieks of all three children.

  31. Then there was a repetition of what had happened before--a few wild screeches, savage howls of triumph, and snarls and grunts that suggested much.

  32. And to the snarls of the beasts I crawled into my hole, and, muttering and dozing, visioning fevered fancies and praying that the last day come quickly, I ebbed down into the darkness of sleep.

  33. Openly they spat at sight of me, and, everywhere arose snarls and cries.

  34. There was a sudden spitting explosion of baby snarls from the depths of the hole.

  35. He faced them with bared fangs,--and it was noon once more, but the two old coyotes stood before him in reality, their own noses wrinkled in snarls which answered his menacing actions and warned him off.

  36. Every little while as he found he had gained on his pursuer the bear would throw himself down, and with snarls and angry growls, take a few awkward rolls; then be up and off again.

  37. Angry snarls and growls could be heard under the heaving canvas as the black bear plunged helplessly about, twisting the tent about him in his desperate struggles to free himself.

  38. With snarls of pain and rage the mass ambled rapidly away in a trail of fire.

  39. With growls and snarls away they hurried, while Mustagan and Sam and the rest, with the expiring torches and noisy yells, followed quickly after, keeping them on the move.

  40. However, Frank knew enough to keep perfectly still, although he confessed he clutched the knife several times more firmly as the blood- curdling snarls of the wild cat pierced the air so near.

  41. Very distinctly now could be heard the growls of the wolverines, and then the defiant snarls of the cats.

  42. I sprang to the nearest tree which promised a refuge, caught the lowest boughs and scrambled up, the angry snarls of the bear filling my ears.

  43. When the flailing arms ceased flailing and the panting executioners stood quiet, the Emperor stretched out his right hand for silence; the rumbling snarls and growls of the mob abated till silence reigned.

  44. As I reached the first strong branch the snarls stopped.

  45. If I sit here thinking of him," snarls the old man, holding up his impotent ten fingers, "I want to strangle him now.

  46. The cat expands her wicked mouth and snarls at him.

  47. He ignored the choice fruits and buds she picked for him, repaid her caresses with scratches, screams and snarls or received them in the most indifferent manner in those rare intervals when he did not violently resent them.

  48. When they started, there was another volley of snarls from the beast in the tree, evidently laboring under the impression that this flank movement had some bearing on the safety of her precious offspring.

  49. There's the tree right over in front of us, in which she was located when we first heard her angry snarls and spitting," his companion told him.

  50. Steve, looking angrily toward the spot from whence the warning snarls had volleyed at them.

  51. The experiment met with an immediate success, for there broke forth a fresh series of explosive snarls even more ferocious than any that had gone before.

  52. Almost instantly the snarls were followed by the unmistakable thuds of something crashing against human flesh.

  53. From beyond the open door came snarls like those of a trapped and wounded tiger.


  54. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "snarls" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.