snort
verb (used without object)
(of animals) to force the breath violently through the nostrils with a loud, harsh sound.
were snorting
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past progressiveof snort.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Steamrollers were snorting away, lengthening the landing strips to 4,500 feet.
From Time Magazine Archive
Logs that meant to have a merry time, and spread a cheerful noise abroad, ere ever they turned to embers, were snorting forth the pointed flames, and spitting soft protests of sap.
From Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore
The horses got frightened, and were snorting and jumping about, trying to break loose all night.
From Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, by Ernest 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 Rudyard Kipling
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 Louis Tracy
