How to Use snort in a Sentence

snort

1 of 2 verb
  • The old dog snorted like a pig when it smelled food.
  • She snorted at his suggestion that he could fix the sink himself.
  • This book snorts syntax and barfs up prophecy.
    — Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2025
  • The sow bounced forward a couple of times, snorting.
    — William D. Brown, Outdoor Life, 13 Nov. 2025
  • There's a laugh-until-you-snort scene in which Harry gets an alien bug inside of him.
    — Sergio Pereira, Space.com, 8 June 2026
  • Why an offensive line coach was caught snorting cocaine off his training camp desk.
    — Greg Cote january 26, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2026
  • And that says nothing of its snort-like laughs, which reminded me too much of the huffs and puffs of the ride’s donkeys.
    — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2026
  • Miles had just come out of retirement after six years of doing little more than snorting coke.
    — Literary Hub, 9 Mar. 2026
  • The instructor reminds the class to be a buddy not a bully and everyone hears your dad snort.
    — Matthew Shen Goodman, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
  • May snorted when asked if May tripped Yaxel Lendeborg.
    — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 19 Mar. 2026
  • They can be snorted, smoked, injected or taken orally.
    — Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Depending on what your child does, a Fingerling might blink, giggle, shake its head, snort or even burp.
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 15 May 2026
  • The man who admits to snorting cocaine off of toilet seats is suddenly concerned about seed oils.
    — Steven Greenhut, Oc Register, 8 May 2026
  • The plucky kid who seemingly had a fast-track job and a beyond-dreams wife is now desperately snorting it all away.
    — Duane Byrge, HollywoodReporter, 1 Apr. 2026
  • The authors estimate the dog could have snorted (or ingested) as much as 96 mg of the drug.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Jens snorts angrily; the frost has deprived him of his virility and transformed him into a helpless old man.
    — Literary Hub, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Having kidnapped a rich kid (and killed some guards in the process), Ciri celebrates by snorting her first line of fisstech.
    — Scott Meslow, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Just hours after snorting the drug, Sarah awoke to find her girlfriend unresponsive beside her.
    — Rachel Hale, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Taylor said Martz and Lee drank, smoked marijuana, and snorted cocaine during the flight.
    — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Grabbing a $20 bill, Robertson had the assistant snort three lines of coke — which eventually did the trick.
    — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 2 Nov. 2025
  • Nash snorted the heroin and became unresponsive five minutes later.
    — Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Milton Riche plays Romain, who decides to celebrate his birthday by snorting an unknown drug from his dealer.
    — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Court documents allege an informant witnessed Clifton snorting cocaine near firearms during a drug deal at his residence.
    — Jack Harvel, Kansas City Star, 3 Mar. 2026
  • These included clips of young people snorting drugs, expressing negative body image, and in sexualized poses.
    — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 21 Nov. 2025
  • Skaggs, 27, snorted the pill and died in a Texas hotel room on July 1, 2019, choking on his own vomit.
    — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2026
  • The premiere audience gasped and snorted in disbelief as Stan and Reinsve suffer the indignity of an overreaching state — removing teens, tweens and an infant from their loving care.
    — Zack Sharf, Variety, 18 May 2026
  • During spring training in 2016, the attorney told jurors, Kay was seen snorting lines of drugs in a kitchen area within the clubhouse, moments before Moreno, the team owner, walked by.
    — Sean Emery, Oc Register, 15 Oct. 2025
  • In Texas hotel room in July 2019 at the start of a team road trip, Tyler snorted the contents of a counterfeit pill that Kay had given him that turned out to contain fentanyl.
    — Sean Emery, Oc Register, 3 Dec. 2025
  • About two weeks after Skaggs died, Mead received a call from a former employee who told Mead that Kay had admitted being in the room with Skaggs and seeing the pitcher snort drugs prior to his death.
    — Sean Emery, Oc Register, 18 Oct. 2025
  • The Sun newspaper also released a video of Coote allegedly snorting a white powder when working as a VAR official at Euro 2024 in Germany.
    — Philip Buckingham, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2026

snort

2 of 2 noun
  • The best moment will come when someone’s laugh ends in a snort.
    — Elaine Ayala, ExpressNews.com, 28 Nov. 2019
  • One snort, and the earth opens up; a hundred men fall into it.
    — Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2019
  • Some friends prescribed a healthy snort of bourbon and a trip to the doctor.
    — Dave Duffey, Outdoor Life, 2 Apr. 2025
  • Lucky could interact with guests and do things like giggle, burp, snort and cough.
    — Bruce Pecho, chicagotribune.com, 17 Apr. 2018
  • The page gave a deep snort, hocking a chartreuse wad against the root of the nightingale’s birch.
    — Hazlitt, 19 Nov. 2025
  • Tiny raised her arms and flinched to curl away from the blow, but the small man lowered his fist with a snort and a chuckle.
    — Rion Amilcar Scott, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2019
  • And feeling a cantaloupe is OK, but not as good a sign as giving it a good snort.
    — Bill St. John, The Denver Post, 2 July 2019
  • My girlfriend – here for the corn dog, not to be quoted in this report – let out a snort of frustration.
    — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Oct. 2020
  • Mikey was able to mark their progress by the snorts of consternation that came from the invisible cows.
    — Colin Barrett, Harper's magazine, 22 July 2019
  • In its place, the raptors come to the kitchen door and snort, fogging up the window as only a warm-blooded animal can do.
    — NBC News, 20 June 2018
  • Finally, Hall snort-wheezed and the buck turned and started walking to the downwind side of his treestand.
    — Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 12 Nov. 2020
  • One snort from an old matriarch will clear a field instantly, leaving very low odds that a single deer will return in daylight.
    — Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 16 Dec. 2020
  • Even so, some of Lucy’s pronouncements are so truly awful that a blunt snort of laughter is the only response.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 13 June 2025
  • The only sounds were from chirping birds, clucking chickens, the occasional snort of a distant pig.
    — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 1 June 2020
  • There was always laughter, followed up by an occasional snort sometimes!
    — Contributed Content, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2025
  • Think snorts, belches and a hum that is vaguely reminiscent of Chewbacca.
    — Sarah Sekula, USA TODAY, 1 July 2019
  • That said, grunting, bleating, and snort-wheezing are all incredibly effective right now.
    — Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 20 Oct. 2020
  • Keep your volume up for a constantly changing, only-in-Africa symphony of snorts, grunts, growls, splashes, and chirps.
    — Lindsay Lambert Day, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Mar. 2020
  • Rapace’s response externalizes four different beats, from a snort to a tear, astonishment to anger.
    — Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Football, with its grunt-and-snort, mud-and-blood demeanor, would not seem super-well-suited to safety in the presence of a communicable disease.
    — Editorial Board Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 31 Aug. 2020
  • This snort-worthy comedy covers the spectrum of romantic attraction, with lots of heartfelt and funny moments along the way.
    — Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 23 May 2022
  • Evans’s character says later to Blanc, drawing a snort of laughter from Stanfield’s detective.
    — Isaac Feldberg, BostonGlobe.com, 2 July 2019
  • An involuntary snort of laughter escaped me just as the illicit gay union at the heart of My Policeman hit its most torrid peak.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Sep. 2022
  • The cotton swab went up his nostrils and Thomas bucked out of my lap with a mighty snort, nearly ripping the 6-inch swab from the pediatrician assistant's fingers.
    — Matt Voltz, CNN, 7 Oct. 2021
  • Reacting to Jules’ loquacious manner of flirting, Lengronne furrows her eyebrows and purses her lips before letting out a snort.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 May 2022
  • But back in the late 90s, people could crush the pills, turning a slow-release narcotic into a rapidly acting drug, a snort or injection leading to an intense high.
    — Peter Ubel, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2024
  • And while it can be linked to a variety of health risks in those who are affected, snoring also takes a toll on bed partners who struggle to get some shuteye in the midst of a cacophony of snorts and rumbles.
    — Carly Weeks, TIME, 7 Aug. 2024
  • Public response to the high-low juxtaposition included snorts at the proclivities of the 1 percent.
    — Christina Binkley, WSJ, 26 Mar. 2018
  • Nasty, brutish and snort-filled, ‘Cocaine Bear’ provides an extremely gory and amusingly speculative answer.
    — Mark Olsenstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Occasionally a rhino snort or hoot broke the silence, punctuated by the thundering hoofs of wildebeest and zebra heading south on their migration route.
    — Alex Postman, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Oct. 2019

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