How to Use snort in a Sentence

snort

1 of 2 verb

• The old dog snorted like a pig when it smelled food.
• She snorted at his suggestion that he could fix the sink himself.
• The student crushed a pill and snorted it on the home’s front porch, the complaint said.
  — Alfredo Corchado, Dallas News, 8 Apr. 2023
• Smith would snort some heroin and would then try to stay off of it for a few days or a week.
  — Eric Heisig, cleveland.com, 30 Apr. 2018
• No need to snort at the fact that Rangers pitchers gave up just three runs in three games to the likes of Oakland.
  — Dallas News, 26 Apr. 2022
• Doug didn't just snort for the role, the pooch's snores, grumbles, and slurps were also recorded to bring Monchi to life.
  — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 20 Apr. 2021
• The nose touched shore, the ramp went down and the tractor snorted into water hip deep.
  — Washington Post, 29 May 2018
• But activists for women’s rights tend to snort at such moves.
  — The Economist, 12 Oct. 2017
• So what if a few people snort that money up their nose?
  — Michael Taylor, ExpressNews.com, 17 Apr. 2020
• One night, around 2000, a woman at the bar invited him to snort a hit of meth, the emerging drug of choice.
  — Photographs Todd Heisler, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2023
• At the door, a hulking bouncer warns people not to snort their pills in the parking lot.
  — Faith Karimi, CNN, 3 Feb. 2023
• Be creative in a way that will make your partner laugh, or snort, or roll their eyes at you.
  — Sophia Benoit, GQ, 28 June 2018
• But the old friends soon run into a coke-snorting pair of rich sociopaths who do.
  — Lincoln Michel, GQ, 19 May 2018
• And a friend said the teen was prone to snorting Percocet, according to the records.
  — Max Londberg, Cincinnati.com, 7 June 2019
• The president smirked and rolled his eyes and did everything but snort and spit.
  — Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2020
• Also watch for a head thrown back, shaking of the head, grunting and snorting.
  — Forrest Brown, CNN, 12 Apr. 2023
• King hid between a bush and the house on the property while the bull stood over him and snorted for some 20 minutes.
  — CBS News, 10 July 2018
• There were houses where the parents would snort cocaine with us.
  — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2018
• Swallow a tube of lip balm, perhaps, or snort a housefly.
  — Amy Nicholson, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2022
• The drug can be in the form of powder, crystals or pills and can be smoked, snorted or injected.
  — Parker Schorr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 Oct. 2019
• Barry is the kind of folk singer who writes about jumping trains and snorting methamphetamine.
  — John Adamian, courant.com, 23 June 2018
• Drug users might take a smaller amount of the drug, inject a tester shot or snort the drug instead of using a syringe.
  — Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 18 Nov. 2021
• But the drugs were able to be crushed and snorted or dissolved in liquid and injected.
  — Andrew Joseph, STAT, 9 Jan. 2020
• At the bottom the bus snorted out a cloud of impatient exhaust.
  — Cynthia Ozick, Harper's Magazine, 10 Apr. 2023
• At one point, they’re forced to snort and stash a bunch of cocaine in their privates after they’re framed for drug-running.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 6 July 2023
• Pari snorts at this but, as a woman, must conceal her amusement while the men roar with laughter.
  — J.r. Jones, Chicago Reader, 14 Feb. 2018
• Glen stumbles across a bag of OxyContin and ends up snorting some crushed up pills in his car.
  — Korin Miller, Women's Health, 14 Aug. 2023
• Foerster can be seen snorting three lines of a substance with a $20 bill.
  — Joe Schad, ajc, 9 Oct. 2017
• Dear Miss Manners: What is the best way to extricate oneself from the faux pas of an uncontrollable laugh, snort or giggle?
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2023
• Martz and Lee allegedly drank, snorted cocaine and smoked marijuana during the flight, Jane Doe claims in the suit.
  — Sarah Parvini, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2023

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snort

2 of 2 noun

• One snort, and the earth opens up; a hundred men fall into it.
  — Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2019
• The best moment will come when someone’s laugh ends in a snort.
  — Elaine Ayala, ExpressNews.com, 28 Nov. 2019
• Tiny raised her arms and flinched to curl away from the blow, but the small man lowered his fist with a snort and a chuckle.
  — Rion Amilcar Scott, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2019
• And feeling a cantaloupe is OK, but not as good a sign as giving it a good snort.
  — Bill St. John, The Denver Post, 2 July 2019
• Lucky could interact with guests and do things like giggle, burp, snort and cough.
  — Bruce Pecho, chicagotribune.com, 17 Apr. 2018
• My girlfriend – here for the corn dog, not to be quoted in this report – let out a snort of frustration.
  — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Oct. 2020
• Finally, Hall snort-wheezed and the buck turned and started walking to the downwind side of his treestand.
  — Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 12 Nov. 2020
• Mikey was able to mark their progress by the snorts of consternation that came from the invisible cows.
  — Colin Barrett, Harper's magazine, 22 July 2019
• In its place, the raptors come to the kitchen door and snort, fogging up the window as only a warm-blooded animal can do.
  — NBC News, 20 June 2018
• What makes these women let this man push his soft underbelly against their pelvises as he grunts and snorts?
  — Monique Judge, The Root, 12 Apr. 2018
• The only sounds were from chirping birds, clucking chickens, the occasional snort of a distant pig.
  — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 1 June 2020
• Keep your volume up for a constantly changing, only-in-Africa symphony of snorts, grunts, growls, splashes, and chirps.
  — Lindsay Lambert Day, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Mar. 2020
• One snort from an old matriarch will clear a field instantly, leaving very low odds that a single deer will return in daylight.
  — Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 16 Dec. 2020
• An involuntary snort of laughter escaped me just as the illicit gay union at the heart of My Policeman hit its most torrid peak.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Sep. 2022
• The cotton swab went up his nostrils and Thomas bucked out of my lap with a mighty snort, nearly ripping the 6-inch swab from the pediatrician assistant's fingers.
  — Matt Voltz, CNN, 7 Oct. 2021
• Football, with its grunt-and-snort, mud-and-blood demeanor, would not seem super-well-suited to safety in the presence of a communicable disease.
  — Editorial Board Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 31 Aug. 2020
• Think snorts, belches and a hum that is vaguely reminiscent of Chewbacca.
  — Sarah Sekula, USA TODAY, 1 July 2019
• Evans’s character says later to Blanc, drawing a snort of laughter from Stanfield’s detective.
  — Isaac Feldberg, BostonGlobe.com, 2 July 2019
• This snort-worthy comedy covers the spectrum of romantic attraction, with lots of heartfelt and funny moments along the way.
  — Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 23 May 2022
• Reacting to Jules’ loquacious manner of flirting, Lengronne furrows her eyebrows and purses her lips before letting out a snort.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 May 2022
• That said, grunting, bleating, and snort-wheezing are all incredibly effective right now.
  — Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 20 Oct. 2020
• Public response to the high-low juxtaposition included snorts at the proclivities of the 1 percent.
  — Christina Binkley, WSJ, 26 Mar. 2018
• Rebecca had moved out years earlier, managing an apartment building for work while kayaking and rappelling for fun, with a snorting laugh that itself made her snort with laughter.
  — Heather Gillers, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2018
• When Deborah occasionally laughs on the show—part-cackle, part-snort—the fabric of TV comedy seems to joyfully realign.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 18 May 2021
• The 1972 Super Fly, cheaply made, unapologetically disreputable and brazenly cathartic, is one big coke-snort-a-go-go; barely a scene goes by without someone taking a hit.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 13 June 2018
• France, where the media made a big brouhaha over spiraling suspicions that David lowered his head to take a quick cocaine snort during the broadcast, decided against lodging a complaint even before the drug test came out negative.
  — NBC News, 23 May 2021
• Nasty, brutish and snort-filled, ‘Cocaine Bear’ provides an extremely gory and amusingly speculative answer.
  — Mark Olsenstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2023
• Occasionally a rhino snort or hoot broke the silence, punctuated by the thundering hoofs of wildebeest and zebra heading south on their migration route.
  — Alex Postman, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Oct. 2019
• Witnesses to those lengthier executions also described hearing inmates breathe heavily, snore or snort or seeing them struggle against their restraints.
  — Kelly P. Kissel and Andrew Demillo, chicagotribune.com, 28 Apr. 2017
• Such municipal monopolies could be valuable when located near another jurisdiction where the populace nominally frowned on alcohol but, in practice, frequently had a snort.
  — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 4 Mar. 2017

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