snore
verb (used without object)
to breathe during sleep with hoarse or harsh sounds caused by the vibrating of the soft palate.
had snored
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past perfectof snore.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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“Bernd Zeiger had snored himself awake and did not know where he was.”
From Washington Post ● Aug. 2, 2020
He, bullnecked, nerveless, had snored through the preceding night.
From Time Magazine Archive
And if one furtively stared, she looked at one down her nose, and made one feel cheap and small as if one had snored, or hiccupped out aloud in a cathedral!
From Everyman's Land by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson
But Dick had returned home late the night before—fatigued after a long journey—and in consequence had snored upon his shakedown of straw, until the bells of Bulstrode were tolling twelve.
From The White Gauntlet by Mayne Reid
If they had snored in my own language I could have endured it, but it was entirely unintelligible to me as it was.
From Remarks by Bill Nye
