short snort
Example Sentences
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The horse gave a short snort and neigh, then paced around the equestrian center, one of eight shelters for animals affected by the Sand fire.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 25, 2016
But here & there was vouchsafed a glimpse�such as Franklin Roosevelt's afterdeck chats with Near Eastern potentates; here & there a sound, like the short snort from Socialism's old warhorse, George Bernard Shaw.
From Time Magazine Archive
Though Author Wetmore has a palate for sour-mash dialogue, he puts into a quart bottle what in John O'Hara's hands might have been a high-proof short snort.
From Time Magazine Archive
From Canada came a sharp, short snort of laughter.
From Time Magazine Archive
Dad gave a short snort of a laugh.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
