923 examples of snarls in sentences

From the crib come whimpers, angry cries, yells, sobs, baby snarls and sniffles that die away in a sleepy infant growl.

Mary was afraid when she heard the snarls of animals in the jungle, but she put her trust in God and went on.

It was more than dog-flesh could bear; Red bounded back, exploding in snarls.

V. As snarls the wolf at bay within the wood

His jungle cry was echoed by the roar of a lion in the next cage, and this was followed by the cries and snarls of all the wild jungle beasts in the tent.

20 Soon as the trotting steed he hears, He starts, he cocks his dapper ears; Away he scours, assaults his hoof; Now near him snarls, now barks aloof; With shrill impertinence attends; Nor leaves him till the village ends.

With strange wild snarls they bit at their wounds, at one another, at the snow.

I have heard it observed by a lady, that Johnson, in his Life of Milton, is like a dog incensed and terrified at the presence of some superior creature, at whom he snarls, then runs away, and then returns to snarl again.

He waved his brand wildly, and sniffs turned to snarls; but the panting brutes refused to scatter.

I don't want to get myself in any snarls, just now.

it is not well that soldiers should get into the habit of thinking they are always to unravel the snarls and cut the knots twisted and tied by clumsy or crafty fingers.

He heard Brother Burge rise, and then a succession of panting snarls seemed to indicate a fierce bodily encounter.

" "Why, that's all I'm good for, Frank; I always pick out the snarls in the house, you know, and I should like to try it once in the barn.

for "gentlemen of property and standing," it is certain that he never snarls at beggars.

for "gentlemen of property and standing," it is certain that he never snarls at beggars.

Incipient snarls of fanatical indignation died away.

Thus, we are told (wit being previously described as a malady), "Vanine, that looked on all the danger past, Because he 'scaped so long, is seized at last; By p, by hunger, and by Dryden bit, He grins and snarls, and, in his dogged fit, Froths at the mouth, a certain sign of wit.

In the curled maple the fibres are in waves instead of in straight lines, and the surface seems to change with alternate light and shade; in the bird's-eye, irregular snarls of fibres look like roundish projections rising from hollow places, each one resembling the eye of a bird.

True to their several characteristics, Spot manifested an amiable and wide-awake interest in all about him, Queen repelled all advances with snaps and snarls, and Baldy quivered with a dread of the unknown, and was only reassured when he felt Ben Edwards' hand on his collar, and listened to the low, encouraging tones of the boy's voice.

Into his poor brain, at last, began to gleam the truth, that a serf-mastering caste, after a compromise, only whines more steadily and snarls more loudly,that, at last, compromising becomes worse than fighting.

" Low growls and snarls attracted me.

At his best, man is weak; unknowing truth, he puts false brands on his goods, mixes and mingles, snarls and confuses, covers up, hides and effaces, so far as he can, God's works, and palms off as His the works of the other.

But a second glance showed her the black and gray, bristling, tossing backs of tumbling beasts of prey, charging the carcass of the bear that lay at its roots, or contesting for the prize with gluttonous choked breath, sidelong snarls, arched spines, and recurved tails.

Day after day since he lay there, she had attempted to approach Black Bart, and day after day he had allowed her to come within reaching distance of him, only to drive her back at the last moment by a sudden display of the murderous, long fangs; or by one of those snarls which came out of the black depths of his heart.

Now, a dog snarls from not far down in its throat, but the noise of an angered wild beast rolls up out of its very entrailsa passion of hate and defiance.

923 examples of  snarls  in sentences