adjective
Etymology
Origin of snaggy
Example Sentences
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It was carried through the dense, snaggy brush of the forest until the woods intersected a trail.
From New York Times ● May 21, 2012
A troupe of actors in snaggy bear costumes and moose outfits frolics through a wilderness of papier-mache rocks and trees painted on screens, while a chorus of owls and frogs makes deep-woods sounds.
From Time Magazine Archive
He wrenched off the tip between snaggy teeth.
From The Ramrodders A Novel by Holman Day
For the black horse had taken to the parked uplands, the dragging rope had tangled in a snaggy tree-root, and he was tracing weary circles in bootless effort to be free.
From Bransford of Rainbow Range Originally Published under the title of Bransford in Arcadia, or, The Little Eohippus by Eugene Manlove Rhodes
His teeth were long and snaggy, and discolored by tobacco juice.
From The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865 by Leander Stillwell
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