[
UK
/snˈɑːld/
]
[ US /ˈsnɑɹəɫd/ ]
[ US /ˈsnɑɹəɫd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
tangled in knots or snarls
snarled thread
a mass of knotted string
How To Use snarled 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.
- 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
- 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.
- I discovered that in the 1720s he had ensnarled himself in administering a debt-ridden estate.
- I snarled and she took a step backwards, glancing at the naked blade in my hands.
- A dog snarled at us viciously but he was caged and couldn't get at us.
- He knew the man -- H'yemba, the cunning ironsmith, one who in other days had before now crossed his will and, dog-like, snarled as much as he had dared. Darkness and Dawn
- She snarled abuse at anyone who happened to walk past.
- All the familiar elements - the deliberate, stately percussion; the elongated, cyclical riffs; the snarled lyrical tautologies and abstruse involutions - are all intact.