How to Use snort in a Sentence

snort

1 of 2 verb
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  • 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
  • But that started to change in the 1990s, when the arrival of heroin pure enough to snort spawned a new breed of user: young, affluent and white.
    — John Keilman, chicagotribune.com, 26 Dec. 2017
  • People were going into the stairwells to snort coke or up to the roof to smoke cigarettes.
    — Amelia Harnish, refinery29.com, 25 June 2019
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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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