snarl

How To Use snarl In A Sentence

• The shorter girl snarled her frustration and lunged after him with her jackknife, tearing a horizontal gash in his right pant leg.
• Donovan, with a .38-caliber pistol strapped to his waist, had to make several trips to the dense Burmese jungle just off the northern Thai border to unsnarl problems with the flights. Wild Bill Donovan
• And thus the Washington Post column on David's congressional testimony, where he is described "hunched" and said to have "barked," "growled" and "snarled" -- language you would use to describe an animal. Humanizing al Qaeda, Demonizing the Bush Team
• Although he had not howled once, his snarling and growling, combined with his thirst, had hoarsened his throat and dried the mucous membranes of his mouth so that he was incapable, except under the sheerest provocation, of further sound. CHAPTER XVI
• As I advanced towards the dog, it snarled and struck at me.
• No whimper, nor sound, nor sign of fear, came from Jerry — only choking growls of ferociousness, intermingled with snarls of anger, and a belligerent up-clawing of hind-legs. CHAPTER XVI
• The crew snarled like roused curs, and some made as if to stand, hands clasping the hilts of cutlasses and swords, daggers and stilettos.
• With the line now unsnarled, I suggest we switch places - I'll pole for a while, Hiaasen can fish.
• Next, something brushed past him, and he encountered it with a snarl and a splashing of his forepaws. CHAPTER XX
• I discovered that in the 1720s he had ensnarled himself in administering a debt-ridden estate.