How to Use snarl in a Sentence

snarl

1 of 2 verb

• When the boxcar doors opened, the Jews were greeted with snarling dogs and pointed guns.
  — Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press, 28 Jan. 2024
• Those, in turn, exploded on mines, snarling even more of the convoy.
  — Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2023
• And that is how many see critics today — snarling gatekeepers in need of a good kick.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2023
• People have the right to protest, but even righteous causes should not snarl cross-border trade.
  — Dominic Pino, National Review, 11 Feb. 2022
• Viciousness is the attack dog that hasn’t eaten in a week, and is drooling and barking and snarling.
  — Merve Emre, The New York Review of Books, 30 Jan. 2024
• South and 1300 East will snarl traffic and detract from a popular park.
  — Tony Semerad, The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 Sep. 2022
• As transit walkouts snarled traffic and sanitation strikes caused trash to pile up in the streets, the protests were ridiculed abroad.
  — Elisabeth Zerofsky, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024
• Last year, when Modi, flanked by Hindu priests, unveiled the new sculpture, viewers were shocked: the lions were snarling.
  — Daniel Brook, The New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2023
• That year, a historic snowstorm snarled daily life in the city and surrounding suburbs.
  — Lily Altavena, Detroit Free Press, 2 Jan. 2024
• Around New York City, the storm’s resurgence threatened to snarl Wednesday morning’s commute.
  — Michael Gold, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2021
• In the past two weeks, storms have blasted much of the U.S. with rain, snow, wind and frigid temperatures, snarling traffic and air travel and causing at least 45 deaths.
  — Claire Rush, Fortune, 19 Jan. 2024
• The cost of renting oil tankers has almost doubled this month, fueled in part by concern that the Israel-Hamas war could snarl shipping through the Suez Canal.
  — WSJ, 18 Oct. 2023
• The deal also likely averts a strike that threatened to snarl deliveries across the country.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 26 July 2023
• Behind them, a miles-long traffic jam snarled the morning commute through downtown, south of the interchange with the 101 Freeway.
  — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2023
• There’s going to be about a zillion road closures and snarled traffic on the arteries that remain open.
  — Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 19 Sep. 2023
• When flights get really snarled due to weather, even putting the smallest amount of distance between you and the storm is an improvement.
  — Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Dec. 2023
• And the supply chains that were badly snarled during the pandemic have pretty much unwound.
  — Christopher Rugaber, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Nov. 2023
• On that day, three minutes into the meeting the local lawnmowers will snarl, grunt and wail in unison right through your three-hour meeting. Write to me.
  — Maria Shine Stewart, cleveland, 7 Sep. 2020
• Smoke billowed from the structure for hours, and the temporary closure of Interstate 405 snarled traffic in and around downtown.
  — oregonlive, 17 May 2023
• Your spirit living, breathing and snarling deep within the beats, bass and heart of the band, unfadeable and undeniable.
  — Selena Fragassi, SPIN, 4 Mar. 2023
• Outside, pro-Palestinian protesters calling for a cease-fire snarled traffic ahead of the event.
  — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2024
• And because much of those building materials will need to be shipped in, supply chains could get snarled and bottlenecks could form.
  — Chris Isidore, CNN, 18 Aug. 2023
• Cruise vacations can easily fall prey to flight disruptions or storms that can snarl plans.
  — Mark Ellwood, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Nov. 2022
• And at least Miles Morales offers a new lens to witness Parker’s descent into snarling, try-hard mannerisms.
  — Gene Park, Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2023
• The former prime minister has snarled defiance for months.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2023
• The brothers are up on a scissor lift using paintbrushes to put a thick white outline around the leftmost of two crouching panthers that snarl over a set of bleachers.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2023
• In the past, volcanic eruptions have only snarled flights when lava hits glaciers, creating an ash cloud, according to CNN.
  — Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Nov. 2023
• However, blocks of Auckland’s downtown were closed for hours after the shooting, snarling traffic.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2023
• Earlier that month, a strict covid lockdown triggered a mass exodus from the site, snarling iPhone production.
  — Julia Malleck, Quartz, 30 May 2023
• The streets of Port-au-Prince normally bustle in the mornings with markets, students, street vendors, snarled traffic, and people on their way to work or out looking for day jobs.
  — Amy Wilentz, The Atlantic, 7 Mar. 2024

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snarl

2 of 2 noun

• For the blinking and snarl, that was turned to the VFX team to finish.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 18 Aug. 2023
• The snarl of the intake filled the cabin as the six ripped toward the redline.
  — Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 4 Aug. 2022
• But put it into Sport mode, and the Coyote V-8 snarls and shouts.
  — Caleb Miller, Car and Driver, 7 Apr. 2023
• As the hedgerows become a blur, the snarl of the engine hardens to a blood-and-thunder roar.
  — Tim Pitt, Robb Report, 10 May 2023
• His eyes are fixed in an icy stare, his lips curl toward a snarl.
  — Emily Birnbaum, Fortune, 25 Jan. 2024
• That disrespect was greeted by the Cougars with a snarl.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 June 2022
• The Superstition Mountains rise from the desert floor with a snarl.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 7 Dec. 2021
• You’re punched hard into the seat as the engine snarls like an angry lion.
  — Angus MacKenzie, Robb Report, 7 Dec. 2023
• And then, there were times when his snarl and growl came out, his doggish bite was evident.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 June 2021
• As the shot dropped through the net, Johnson leaned back and turned toward his teammates with a swaggering snarl.
  — Tom Green | [e-mail], al, 5 Feb. 2023
• Encourage kids to use their masks as part of their costume – such as a scary witch's face or a pirate's snarl.
  — USA Today, 23 Oct. 2021
• But beneath the muscle and the snarl now lies a desire to affect positive change.
  — Todd Rosiak, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 Dec. 2021
• Twin gaping snouts are laser-lit and rake backward at the outer edges, evoking a hint of a snarl when viewed at an angle.
  — Derek Powell, Car and Driver, 22 Sep. 2022
• In his prime, Eminem rapped with a sarcastic snarl about how much success sucked.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 6 Sep. 2022
• The snarls evoke a crisis that began in October 2020 with a backup of five vessels.
  — Laura Curtis, Bloomberg.com, 7 June 2023
• Hathaway, a Kennebunkport, Maine, and Brown product, adds some size and snarl to the bottom six forwards.
  — Matt Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Feb. 2023
• At the same time, a mob of angry white people snarls, yells obscenities, and hurls glass bottles at them.
  — Ira Porter, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Feb. 2024
• But elsewhere in the county, a tornado touched down just long enough to reveal rotation in a snarl of trees.
  — Bill Bowden, Arkansas Online, 8 Mar. 2022
• There’s something a notch too complacent in much of his later work, in which talent growls and snarls but has less to oppose.
  — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2023
• Without the snarl, the songs wouldn’t be a pleasure to listen to — even if pleasure isn’t necessarily quite the right word.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 15 Oct. 2021
• As the name suggests, Verb’s Detangling Brush is ideal for working through even the toughest snarls.
  — Sophie Dodd, Peoplemag, 29 Sep. 2023
• Experts are working to disentangle the snarl now for fear that things could get worse if Roe v. Wade is overturned.
  — Sakshi Venkatraman, NBC News, 11 May 2022
• The supply chain snarls that followed the pandemic have been mostly unsnarled.
  — Francisco Velasquez, Quartz, 18 Mar. 2024
• Sen yai is a stellar way to start a meal at Kin Sen: A slippery snarl of flat rice noodles, sauced with dark soy and capped with a golden tumble of ground pork and tofu.
  — Stuart Melling, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Aug. 2023
• And many people who were out and about but anxious to get home before the roads got really bad contributed to bumper-to-bumper traffic snarls.
  — oregonlive, 22 Feb. 2023
• Alongside its feline screech and its avian snarl, the griffin resonated in ancient and medieval minds as a symbol of strength.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 30 Oct. 2023
• His biggest challenge will be playing with a harder, physical edge, going from a smile to a snarl.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Mar. 2022
• After acquiring so many middle infielders through the draft, trades and free agent signings, some day a snarl of talent would have to take place at the entrance to the big leagues.
  — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 25 Mar. 2022
• The snarl of trunks sprouting low to the ground creates a series of great riblike scratching posts, each wrapped in sufficiently coarse bark.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Apr. 2022
• Meanwhile, there’s a risk that the supply chain snarls that triggered inflation in the early days of the pandemic could flare again because of military conflict in the Red Sea, Barclays says.
  — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024