were snorting
- past progressive of snort.
Example Sentences
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Steamrollers were snorting away, lengthening the landing strips to 4,500 feet.
From Time Magazine Archive
Automobiles of every known variety were snorting up to the curb and bustling off again as promptly as their users could enter and bestow themselves in dim interiors.
From Number Seventeen by Tracy, Louis
Five walrus were snorting and barking in a hole which they had broken in the ice.
From Fast in the Ice Adventures in the Polar Regions by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
Further on they reached another creek inhabited by hippopotami, which were snorting about in every direction, and by two species of crocodile.
From Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley by Kingston, William Henry Giles
The ditches were snorting bank-full on either side, and towards the brook-side the fields were afloat and beginning to move in the darkness.
From A Diversity of Creatures by Kipling, Rudyard
