snort
verb (used without object)
(of animals) to force the breath violently through the nostrils with a loud, harsh sound.
had snorted
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past perfectof snort.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Among other things typhoid-convalescent Chang noticed that the first motor truck ever built in China had snorted out of his great arsenal in Mukden.
From Time Magazine Archive
Worried Britons learned last week that the indomitable Winston Churchill, who was 68 last November, had snorted, heaved and fought his way through a mild but dangerous attack of pneumonia.
From Time Magazine Archive
Over & over again, Texan Tom Connally, who had snorted interventionist fire in the Senate before the war, now breathed peace.
From Time Magazine Archive
John Archbold, one of the lords of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil monopoly, had snorted that he would drink every gallon of oil produced west of the Mississippi.
From Time Magazine Archive
But then Rosie had snorted, impatient to get out for a walk.
From "I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919" by Lauren Tarshis
