snarling

How to use snarling in a sentence

The Great Dane, crouching close and snarling, watched him as a cat watches a mouse.

In his eyes was the look of the snarling wild animal—the same look that had flashed there when he sprang at Lowell in his camp.

MYSTERY RANCHARTHUR CHAPMAN

The snarling, biting, and barking of false hydrophobia are hysterical; these symptoms do not occur in real hydrophobia.

What pleasure or benefit could arise from this snarling contradiction, would have defied a wiser brain than Ida's to determine.

ALONEMARION HARLAND

He has availed himself of a term that gathers up all the snarling qualities of the worst of the dog species.

A furry, snarling thing had leaped at him, knocking the revolver from his hand in its plunging ascent.

THE WHITE DESERTCOURTNEY RYLEY COOPER

A moment later there were a series of sharp snarling barks and the boy was filled with sudden alarm.

In Charleston the streets echoed only to the sound of my own footsteps or the snarling of hungry curs.

THE BOYS OF '61CHARLES CARLETON COFFIN.

The cat, now hot with the lust to kill, threw himself against the bars, snarling and spitting.

He heard the neighing of the horses, the trumpeting of the elephants, the roaring of the lions, and the snarling of the tigers.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985