snort
verb (used without object)
(of animals) to force the breath violently through the nostrils with a loud, harsh sound.
snortingly
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a word derived from
snort.
Example Sentences
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“Michael Gove is making a snortingly good launch speech,” broadcaster Piers Morgan said.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 11, 2019
Several of the feeding animals lifted their heads, snortingly, from the short herbage, at sight of him; and fled up the hill.
From Lad: A Dog by Albert Payson Terhune
But then Gif, Spouter, and Fred took a position directly in front of the on-coming horses, and the driver brought them snortingly to a sudden stop.
From The Rover Boys on a Hunt or The Mysterious House in the Woods by Edward Stratemeyer
“Bring him in an’ get the money,” he said snortingly.
From The Coyote A Western Story by James Roberts
At last they saw the black bug of a machine crawling snortingly across the twenty-mile strip of sand between them and the pass through the Cocopa Mountains.
From The Desert Fiddler by William H. (William Henry) Hamby
