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Example sentences for "snorts"

Lexicographically close words:
snoring; snort; snorted; snorting; snortings; snotties; snotty; snout; snouted; snouts
  1. He fought it off with his whip, then swung to the saddle with his precious burden and rode away as for his very life, while the Badger pursued for a time, but it was easily left behind, and its snorts were lost and forgotten.

  2. Then I arose and learned that the snorts and the racket were made, not by my friend, but by a huge Grizzly that had come prowling about the camp, and had awakened me by snorting into my tent.

  3. And it is bitter cold, and each gale snorts up with a prelude of driving snow.

  4. He growls and grumbles, and snorts and sneers whenever he watches them doing anything.

  5. The voices mingled in a confused uproar, drowning the ponderous whir of the machinery, the sharp snorts of the steam, and the flapping of the leather belts.

  6. Snorts issued from her fleshy nose, her eyes blinked and turned from side to side as if on the lookout for somebody in the street.

  7. She and the horse That snorts at Spain by an instinct of nature Should have shown tricks together.

  8. Something struck the tent a terrific blow, followed by a series of snorts and squeals.

  9. Niura snorts and adds through the laughter which suffocates her: "Warm your feet for a while!

  10. When his steps are abating on the stairs and the front door bangs to behind him, Emma Edwardovna snorts through her nose and says contemptuously: "Stool-pigeon!

  11. Then she snorts at Texas an' Cherokee contemptuous.

  12. The horses, startled by the apparition of the riders, turned back hastily, uttering snorts of terror, and fled in another direction.

  13. The noble animals rushed with snorts of fury at the walls of the inclosure, trying to tear up the stakes with their teeth, and dashing madly against them.

  14. He gave several snorts and began to paw with his front foot.

  15. He gave a few disgruntled snorts and then ambled off to the far end of the orchard.

  16. The air rang again and again with the short snapping bark of attacking lions and the grunting snorts of buffaloes on the defensive; and, as soon as it was day, we went to the field of battle.

  17. Only time you ever heard me I was hauling you up with your broken jack-shaft," snorts Pelty.

  18. Among the branches of the trees at the edge of the clearing, a score or more monkeys chattered and scolded as the loud snorts of the angry beast sent them scurrying affrightedly to the upper terraces.

  19. Accident started him in the direction of the ape-man, and then his weak eyes discerned the enemy, and with a series of snorts he charged straight for him.

  20. Low voices drifted into the cabin, then came snorts of horses and striking hoofs, and after that a steady trot, gradually ceasing.

  21. Then followed snorts of fright, pound and crack and thud of hoofs, and crash of brush; then a gathering thumping, crashing roar, split by piercing sounds.

  22. Helen heard the thud of boots striking the ground, and the snorts of horses.

  23. After a few snorts and groans, Cara shook himself and looked round.

  24. Then again there was silence, broken by a succession of long sniffs and snorts of tremendous volume and energy.

  25. Every moment the thunder of the hoofs and the horrible snorts of the monster drew nearer to my heels.

  26. The flies evidently found his eyes to be a dry patch, while they were unable to obtain a permanent foothold at his nostrils owing to the intermittent, horse-like snorts which blew them as from the mouth of a blunderbuss.

  27. The furious barb snorts fire and foam, And, with a fearful bound, Dissolves at once in empty air, And leaves her on the ground.

  28. High snorts the straining steed; Thick pants the rider's laboring breath, As headlong on they speed.

  29. Labored snorts echoed in the rocks, couplings rang, and when the train sped across a bridge the roll of wheels drowned Deering's voice.

  30. A steady throb rolled up the valley, and presently Deering distinguished a locomotive's measured snorts and the rumble of wheels.

  31. I know all you sheiks will agree with me--" Embarrassed snorts of laughter interrupted him.

  32. Out among the cedars rose the peculiar halting thump of a hobbled horse trying to cover ground, followed by snorts and crashings of brush and the pound of plunging hoofs.

  33. He could scarcely see, so full were his eyes of the sandy water, but he made out Mescal rising from the river on Silvermane, as with loud snorts he climbed to a bar.

  34. Latimer bounded back into bed, and his conqueror, after a few threatening snorts and champings of its jaws, resumed its massage operations with renewed zeal.

  35. The snorts and snarls that escaped from him for the next quarter of an hour went far to support the truth of the old saying that two of a trade never agree.


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