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verb snɑːlsnɑrl [no object]1(of an animal such as a dog) make an aggressive growl with bared teeth. the dog snarled at the boy Example sentencesExamples - He did try to chase cats he saw on his walks, but he didn't snarl at them, and he behaved himself fairly well in the veterinarian's waiting room.
- Papa's Yorkshire terrier was tied in the truck bed and when one of the elephants walked by, the dog snarled and snapped, straining at the end of her chain.
- The wolves of the group suddenly rushed towards the direction of the sound, baring their teeth and snarling.
- The dogs were nearing her, coming closer; their teeth bared, snarling viciously
- He quickly turned around to see a mangy looking dog snarling ferociously.
- It was the kind of fear I got when I heard two dogs snarl at each other just before they fought.
- His entire body swivels around and he advances menacingly like a stray dog snarling over a piece of meat.
- As soon as he turned to face it, the beast jumped on him, snarling, and baring its sharp teeth.
- The wolf that followed him snarled visibly, his teeth bared in their direction as he paused a moment before passing beyond the door.
- But it only angered the tiger, which snarled and bared its teeth, claws drawn out.
- A pack of wolves, fifty at least, were coming toward her, hackles raised, teeth bared, snarling.
- It snarled and bared its blood stained teeth at Darius, who in turn, ran away up the path.
- A dog snarled at us viciously but he was caged and couldn't get at us.
- The dog snarls at the actor, then starts to chase him.
- As the door slammed shut behind the girl, Brooke bared her teeth and snarled viciously after her, only a second before she fell into a hacking cough.
- Up ahead, a shepherd's dogs snarl, prompting one of our boatmen to tear into a bush and hand us branches for self-defense.
- It was the most horrendous place, because it was so savage, Alsatian dogs were snarling at you all the time, there was hardly any food.
- We woke to find him challenging his own reflection, baring his big teeth and snarling between barks.
- The animal keeps barking and growling, snarling at my unfamiliar scent.
- They snarled and bared their teeth in a predatory way.
- 1.1reporting verb (of a person) say something in an angry, bad-tempered voice.
I used to snarl at anyone I disliked with direct speech ‘Shut your mouth!’ he snarled with object he snarled a few choice remarks at them Example sentencesExamples - In fact, I basically snarled at anyone who got anywhere near me.
- Well, okay, but would the waiter have felt better if I'd snarled at him instead?
- ‘Stay out of my family's business,’ she had snarled at the counselor as she grabbed her son away.
- One minute he's smiling and making jokes, then the next he's snarling coldly at someone.
- Jeremy could almost hear the voice of his stepfather snarling the words as he read them, and he felt his rage building.
- But then, curiously, he did not snarl contemptuously that they were wrong and that he had a sackful of lawyers to say so.
- Michael snarled and literally spat out the last word.
- Jumping at the start of her cell phone, Laura snarled into the receiver upon opening it in an angry Russian,
- Robert snarled, ‘If they are back why then, are you here with me when you should be there!’
- ‘If you do not speak, your prime minister will die,’ Eric snarled.
- ‘I don't have issues with Liz,’ I interrupted, and didn't know I was snarling.
- ‘Saint O'Neil’ an unlikable character snarls at one point.
- ‘You are an abomination of nature,’ another one of the men snarled.
- Gregory snarled, but gradually, his temper faded away, and the rage he felt became like steam, and drifted up into the cloudy sky.
- ‘Well I think it's a great name for a cat and you're a bloody fool for not thinking such,’ the child snarled.
- ‘This isn't your fight,’ Jack snarled angrily and Ben felt his desperation.
- I'm told I was almost snarling when I replied, ‘I am the only family he's going to get.’
- ‘I don't have to,’ Ryan snarled, turning back to me, a twisted grin on his face.
- ‘Save it for the judge,’ another officer snarled as the first one handcuffed her.
- She was snarling as if these were quite horrid things to say.
Synonyms say/speak roughly, say/speak brusquely, say/speak nastily, say/speak angrily, bark, snap, growl, fling, hurl lash out at round on someone informal jump down someone's throat, fly off the handle at
noun snɑːlsnɑrl An act or sound of snarling. Example sentencesExamples - An owl hooted mysteriously, but was silenced by the sound of a low snarl followed by a thud.
- With a snarl of rage and perhaps also of fear the creature began to struggle against the steel clamps around his arms and feet.
- For a moment, he seemed close to the edge, his expression contorting into a snarl of venomous hatred and barely-contained rage; but he made no physical move.
- She could hear the sounds of barks and snarls behind her as she turned a corner.
- A snarl sounded behind him, and Carl's body snapped backward.
Derivatives noun When liberals gave Rice hell during her confirmation hearing, the right-wing snarlers of cable TV pounced on Oliphant's rendition.
adverbˈsnɑːlɪŋliˈsnɑrlɪŋli Ineffably cool and snarlingly righteous, it blows initially-impressive recent efforts by both Massive Attack and Primal Scream into the water simply by means of having something to say and a definite way to say it. Example sentencesExamples - Whenever the subject of the war comes up, the hosts - to a one - are snarlingly hostile to any critic, and utterly toadying to the Bush administration.
- During an altercation with some soldiers, Joaquin is killed when confronted by Captain Love (a snarlingly evil Matt Letscher) and Alejandro decides to drown his sorrows in beer, a temporary solution if ever there was one.
adjectivesnarliest, snarlier ˈsnɑːliˈsnɑrli 1(of an animal) snarling or inclined to snarl. - 1.1 Angry or bad-tempered.
Example sentencesExamples - Cheney's tone, of course, is a snarly bass growl.
- It doesn't have any of these snarly, ratty, great farfisa sounds that the real instrument did.
- The words were short and to the point, yet profoundly eloquent, spoken in a loud and snarly voice spiced with a few adjectives not appropriate for the ears of young stick-handlers.
- the snarly cashier taps her fingers on the counter
Origin Late 16th century: extension of obsolete snar, of Germanic origin; related to German schnarren 'rattle, snarl', probably imitative. Rhymes Amal, Arles, banal, Barisal, Basle, Bhopal, Carl, chorale, corral, dhal, entente cordiale, Escorial, farl, femme fatale, Funchal, gayal, gnarl, halal, Karl, kraal, locale, marl, morale, musicale, Pascal, pastorale, procès-verbal, Provençal, rationale, real, rial, riyal, Taal, Taj Mahal, timbale, toile, Vaal, Vidal, Waal verb snɑːlsnɑrl [with object]1snarl something upEntangle something. the trailing lead got snarled up in a bramble bush Example sentencesExamples - We want the work to be done in an orderly fashion - not in a way that snarls up the city.
- There were the usual murmurings about congestion snarling up the M8 which had delayed some making the trip from Edinburgh to the Glasgow Hilton.
- Carriages would be forced onto the road, snarling up traffic flows and putting lives at risk, suggested BDS member Sue Hamley, of Ty Rhos, Llanycefn.
- Jams snarled up parts of the inner ring road as far away as Fulford, Clementhorpe and Osbaldwick, as hundreds more drivers joined the queues.
- Smaller demonstrations snarled up traffic in parts of Germany and Italy.
- We would like to suggest that the LCC comes up with a system of levy collection which will not snarl up traffic and cause congestion. One suggestion would be pre-payments by all the minibuses that use Kulima Tower bus station.
- For some time, the roads were clear, but after the meet petered out at around 7.30 pm, the return of the protesters in vans and buses once again snarled up traffic during peak evening hours.
- Should we snarl up the streets with drivers waiting for the police to attend to remove disruptive students from their buses?
- She got stuck in a traffic jam which had snarled up the road from Kew Bridge Station all the way to Chiswick Roundabout.
- But the buses can be horribly crowded at times and are often held in the long traffic jams that snarl up key points at rush hours.
Synonyms tangle, entangle, entwine, enmesh, ravel, knot, twist, intertwine, jumble, muddle, foul - 1.1 Hinder or impede something.
the coach became snarled up in traffic a heavy backlog of cases has snarled up the court process Synonyms complicate, confuse, muddle, jumble, throw into disorder, embroil, make difficult
2Decorate (metalwork) with raised shapes by hammering the underside.
noun snɑːlsnɑrl A knot or tangle. snarls of wild raspberry plants Example sentencesExamples - She looked like a child brought up by wolves in the forest; her long brown hair was a tangle of snarls, surrounding a face all bones and angles.
- Ramone glared at him slightly, snatching it from him and starting to comb through the tangled snarls of crimson hair, green eyes still watching him from under an unkempt fringe.
- They brushed her hair until it was straight and there were no more snarls or knots.
- At some point, all tapestries encounter setbacks: snarls and kinks that tangle or block the work.
- Jane ran her fingers through her hair, combing the tangles out as she harshly pulled her hands through the snarls.
Origin Late Middle English (in the senses 'snare, noose' and 'catch in a snare'): from snare. verbsnɑrlsnärl [no object]1(of an animal such as a dog) make an aggressive growl with bared teeth. the dog snarled at the boy Example sentencesExamples - As soon as he turned to face it, the beast jumped on him, snarling, and baring its sharp teeth.
- The dogs were nearing her, coming closer; their teeth bared, snarling viciously
- Papa's Yorkshire terrier was tied in the truck bed and when one of the elephants walked by, the dog snarled and snapped, straining at the end of her chain.
- It was the most horrendous place, because it was so savage, Alsatian dogs were snarling at you all the time, there was hardly any food.
- We woke to find him challenging his own reflection, baring his big teeth and snarling between barks.
- Up ahead, a shepherd's dogs snarl, prompting one of our boatmen to tear into a bush and hand us branches for self-defense.
- The dog snarls at the actor, then starts to chase him.
- They snarled and bared their teeth in a predatory way.
- It snarled and bared its blood stained teeth at Darius, who in turn, ran away up the path.
- He quickly turned around to see a mangy looking dog snarling ferociously.
- The animal keeps barking and growling, snarling at my unfamiliar scent.
- The wolves of the group suddenly rushed towards the direction of the sound, baring their teeth and snarling.
- A pack of wolves, fifty at least, were coming toward her, hackles raised, teeth bared, snarling.
- But it only angered the tiger, which snarled and bared its teeth, claws drawn out.
- He did try to chase cats he saw on his walks, but he didn't snarl at them, and he behaved himself fairly well in the veterinarian's waiting room.
- His entire body swivels around and he advances menacingly like a stray dog snarling over a piece of meat.
- As the door slammed shut behind the girl, Brooke bared her teeth and snarled viciously after her, only a second before she fell into a hacking cough.
- It was the kind of fear I got when I heard two dogs snarl at each other just before they fought.
- The wolf that followed him snarled visibly, his teeth bared in their direction as he paused a moment before passing beyond the door.
- A dog snarled at us viciously but he was caged and couldn't get at us.
- 1.1reporting verb (of a person) say something in an angry, bad-tempered voice.
I used to snarl at anyone I disliked with direct speech “Shut your mouth!” he snarled with object he snarled a few choice remarks at them Example sentencesExamples - Jeremy could almost hear the voice of his stepfather snarling the words as he read them, and he felt his rage building.
- ‘I don't have issues with Liz,’ I interrupted, and didn't know I was snarling.
- ‘Stay out of my family's business,’ she had snarled at the counselor as she grabbed her son away.
- ‘I don't have to,’ Ryan snarled, turning back to me, a twisted grin on his face.
- Well, okay, but would the waiter have felt better if I'd snarled at him instead?
- Robert snarled, ‘If they are back why then, are you here with me when you should be there!’
- One minute he's smiling and making jokes, then the next he's snarling coldly at someone.
- I'm told I was almost snarling when I replied, ‘I am the only family he's going to get.’
- ‘If you do not speak, your prime minister will die,’ Eric snarled.
- ‘Save it for the judge,’ another officer snarled as the first one handcuffed her.
- In fact, I basically snarled at anyone who got anywhere near me.
- ‘This isn't your fight,’ Jack snarled angrily and Ben felt his desperation.
- Gregory snarled, but gradually, his temper faded away, and the rage he felt became like steam, and drifted up into the cloudy sky.
- But then, curiously, he did not snarl contemptuously that they were wrong and that he had a sackful of lawyers to say so.
- ‘Saint O'Neil’ an unlikable character snarls at one point.
- ‘You are an abomination of nature,’ another one of the men snarled.
- Jumping at the start of her cell phone, Laura snarled into the receiver upon opening it in an angry Russian,
- She was snarling as if these were quite horrid things to say.
- Michael snarled and literally spat out the last word.
- ‘Well I think it's a great name for a cat and you're a bloody fool for not thinking such,’ the child snarled.
Synonyms say roughly, speak roughly, say brusquely, speak brusquely, say nastily, speak nastily, say angrily, speak angrily, bark, snap, growl, fling, hurl
nounsnɑrlsnärl An act or sound of snarling. the cat drew its mouth back in a snarl Example sentencesExamples - She could hear the sounds of barks and snarls behind her as she turned a corner.
- An owl hooted mysteriously, but was silenced by the sound of a low snarl followed by a thud.
- For a moment, he seemed close to the edge, his expression contorting into a snarl of venomous hatred and barely-contained rage; but he made no physical move.
- With a snarl of rage and perhaps also of fear the creature began to struggle against the steel clamps around his arms and feet.
- A snarl sounded behind him, and Carl's body snapped backward.
Origin Late 16th century: extension of obsolete snar, of Germanic origin; related to German schnarren ‘rattle, snarl’, probably imitative. verbsnɑrlsnärl [with object]1Entangle or impede (something) the bus got snarled up in the downtown traffic Example sentencesExamples - Carriages would be forced onto the road, snarling up traffic flows and putting lives at risk, suggested BDS member Sue Hamley, of Ty Rhos, Llanycefn.
- For some time, the roads were clear, but after the meet petered out at around 7.30 pm, the return of the protesters in vans and buses once again snarled up traffic during peak evening hours.
- Should we snarl up the streets with drivers waiting for the police to attend to remove disruptive students from their buses?
- There were the usual murmurings about congestion snarling up the M8 which had delayed some making the trip from Edinburgh to the Glasgow Hilton.
- Jams snarled up parts of the inner ring road as far away as Fulford, Clementhorpe and Osbaldwick, as hundreds more drivers joined the queues.
- We would like to suggest that the LCC comes up with a system of levy collection which will not snarl up traffic and cause congestion. One suggestion would be pre-payments by all the minibuses that use Kulima Tower bus station.
- We want the work to be done in an orderly fashion - not in a way that snarls up the city.
- But the buses can be horribly crowded at times and are often held in the long traffic jams that snarl up key points at rush hours.
- She got stuck in a traffic jam which had snarled up the road from Kew Bridge Station all the way to Chiswick Roundabout.
- Smaller demonstrations snarled up traffic in parts of Germany and Italy.
Synonyms tangle, entangle, entwine, enmesh, ravel, knot, twist, intertwine, jumble, muddle, foul 2Decorate (metalwork) with raised shapes by hammering the underside.
nounsnɑrlsnärl A knot or tangle. snarls of wild raspberry plants our hair hung in damp snarls Example sentencesExamples - At some point, all tapestries encounter setbacks: snarls and kinks that tangle or block the work.
- Ramone glared at him slightly, snatching it from him and starting to comb through the tangled snarls of crimson hair, green eyes still watching him from under an unkempt fringe.
- They brushed her hair until it was straight and there were no more snarls or knots.
- Jane ran her fingers through her hair, combing the tangles out as she harshly pulled her hands through the snarls.
- She looked like a child brought up by wolves in the forest; her long brown hair was a tangle of snarls, surrounding a face all bones and angles.
Origin Late Middle English (in the senses ‘snare, noose’ and ‘catch in a snare’): from snare. |