How to Use snooker in a Sentence

snooker

1 of 2 noun
  • One played snooker, not with a cue stick, but with a chopstick and cherry tomatoes.
    — Jane Li, Quartz, 29 Jan. 2020
  • But, of course, there are others, too, like darts, snooker, and table tennis.
    — Catena Media, oregonlive, 23 Nov. 2022
  • Mark Williams proved to not only a snooker champion, but a man of his word.
    — Nina Mandell, For The Win, 8 May 2018
  • The proud dad added that Jude struggled to manage the snooker table at first thanks to his height.
    — Gabrielle Rockson, PEOPLE, 29 Jan. 2026
  • For two weeks every spring, the city of Sheffield in northern England goes snooker crazy.
    — Andrew Dickson, Bloomberg, 2 May 2026
  • But Southgate didn’t always look like a snooker player on the sidelines.
    — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 9 July 2018
  • The State Theater’s main space, for example, is now a snooker hall.
    — Mike Ives, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2017
  • People know about his love of esports, but he was fascinated by snooker and horse racing, too.
    — Oliver Kay, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2025
  • White will play the director of an estate agency who has the task of sacking the main character in a snooker hall.
    — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 24 June 2025
  • Jude Owens has already scored two Guinness World Records for his snooker skills.
    — Victoria Craw, Washington Post, 28 Jan. 2026
  • There’s a pretty playground with a zip wire, a tennis court floating on a lake and a vast beamed attic filled with board games, snooker and trunks of fancy dress.
    — Lydia Bell, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Squash rackets, snooker cues, and the famous Dunlop Maxply tennis racket were all made of ash.
    — National Geographic, 11 Sep. 2016
  • To put it in terms of another popular sport in Asia, the likeable Italian is now left needing snookers.
    — Jonathan Hawkins, CNN, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Today at the club, in a narrow townhouse with snooker tables, a ballroom and a bar, not even the eight committee members are in the ruling party.
    — Max Colchester, WSJ, 13 June 2019
  • American Football is comfortably the most boring game not involving sticks (golf and snooker are worse)?
    — Adam Blenford, Bloomberg.com, 10 Jan. 2018
  • The métier worked with a supplier to make the basic structure and consulted with snooker professionals.
    — Janice O'Leary, Robb Report, 7 Mar. 2021
  • China is a growing force in snooker and provided 11 of the 32 players in the world championship.
    — ABC News, 3 May 2026
  • Zhao had swept aside seven-time winner Ronnie O’Sullivan in the semi-finals to set up what was billed as the coronation of a new snooker king.
    — Reuters, CNN Money, 5 May 2025
  • Suppose the person has ulterior motives and decides to snooker society by playing around with the compassion meter?
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 16 July 2025
  • This is a club that shares a training ground with snooker and croquet teams, a club that invites fans to its afternoon practices, a club that has been known to have its players stand in line for food at the concession stands among the fans.
    — Michelle Kaufman, miamiherald, 26 Aug. 2017
  • For Ding, spending endless days alone with a snooker table is ultimately counterproductive.
    — Charlie Campbell / Beijing, Time, 19 Apr. 2018
  • With a legacy of over 40 years, Matchroom Sport is renowned for its global sports programming, especially in boxing, snooker, and darts.
    — Jenn Nelson, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Are Back, which is being presented to the government to get football, snooker, rugby, golf and equestrian sports fans back into stadiums and major sporting events next month.
    — Simon Perry, PEOPLE.com, 27 Aug. 2020
  • Bar sports had for a time seemed immune to cancellation, but snooker postponed its world championship at the Crucible in Sheffield, England, and hoped for a rescheduling in the summer.
    — Victor Mather, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2020
  • Zhao joined Terry Griffiths and Shaun Murphy as the only qualifiers to capture snooker’s most prestigious trophy.
    — Reuters, CNN Money, 5 May 2025
  • Close by is the home’s formal dining room with its table for 18, a separate snooker room and an oversized live-in kitchen complete with fireplace, dining table and furnace-like electric Aga cooking range.
    — Howard Walker, Robb Report, 29 Mar. 2022
  • Facing the end of a wildly successful but turbulent career, the snooker legend found himself on the verge of a career-defining tournament to win the snooker World Championship for a seventh time.
    — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Abdali had just returned from refereeing an international snooker tournament in the United Arab Emirates when the militants took control.
    — Loveday Morris, Washington Post, 6 May 2017
  • Once called ''the funniest woman on TV,'' Catherine O'Hara spends much of her time these days bellying up against a snooker table at the Squeeze Club, a Toronto juice bar and pool hall.
    — Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 31 Jan. 2026
  • Via various entities, the kingdom recently sold a 70% stake in a domestic soccer team, ended a decade-long snooker deal after just two years and decided not to continue hosting the WTA Tour finals.
    — Luke Cyphers, Sportico.com, 3 Sep. 2019

snooker

2 of 2 verb
  • I can't believe you managed to snooker me with that story about being an orphan.
  • Cops said Bender may have been on a bender, as he was snookered.
    — Barbara Hijek, Sun-Sentinel.com, 18 May 2017
  • And as Kim snookered him in that living room showdown, Mike had the cross-hairs of a rifle pointed at Lalo’s chest.
    — David Segal, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2020
  • Carrie should have discovered her Wall Street prince had gambling debts or had gotten snookered by a Bernie Madoff-like conman.
    — Robyn Bahr, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • There was the time he was snookered by a collection of fake letters between Marilyn Monroe and JFK.
    — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 29 Aug. 2025
  • The biggest price—and this theme runs through much of Sheridan’s work—is the one exacted by capitalism and the gentrifiers and financiers who snooker the good people who still work with their hands.
    — Sridhar Pappu, The Atlantic, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Nike ‘had snookered me’ The culprits, Rentmeester and Dey claim, were the Nike art directors who reneged on a promise to credit him for his work.
    — Bypaolo Confino, Fortune, 17 June 2024
  • As Swift makes clear, the Theatre endured only because Burbage was good at improvising and snookering his business partners.
    — Isaac Butler, The Atlantic, 3 Nov. 2025
  • The difference is that Horton was a pachyderm patsy, snookered into pro bono egg-tending by a ne’er-do-well bird, while Glennon will make a cool $16 million this year.
    — Pat Fitzmaurice, SI.com, 2 Aug. 2017
  • This past week, Fingerlings were out of stock on Walmart's website, while parents complained that they had been snookered into buying counterfeits from sellers on Amazon and other sites.
    — The New York Times, NOLA.com, 9 Dec. 2017
  • This past week, Fingerlings were out of stock on Walmart’s website, while parents complained that they had been snookered into buying counterfeits from sellers on Amazon and other sites.
    — Michael Corkery, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2017
  • And snooker never really gained sustained traction elsewhere in the world, with top players consistently hailing from Great Britain or Commonwealth countries.
    — Amy Gunia, Time, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Last week, Fingerlings were out of stock on Wal-Mart’s website, while parents complained that they had been snookered into buying counterfeits from sellers on Amazon and other sites.
    — Michael Corkery, The Seattle Times, 9 Dec. 2017
  • At Martinsville on March 29, Hamlin led 292 of 400 laps in the fastest car but was snookered when Chase Elliott short-pitted to gain the lead.
    — Reid Spencer, Kansas City Star, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Armored truck driver Russell (Murphy) is nearing retirement and on a cash pickup job with young slacker Travis (Davidson) when the latter gets snookered by a criminal (Keke Palmer) into a high-stakes robbery situation.
    — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Armored truck driver Russell (Murphy) is nearing retirement and is on a cash pickup job with young slacker Travis (Davidson) when the latter gets snookered by a criminal (Keke Palmer) into a high-stakes robbery situation.
    — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 15 Aug. 2025

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