snort
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With the afternoon sun beating down while the cows snort and moo, the workers inspect and clean the animals' teats, which are then attached to milking equipment.
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2026
The writer Jia Tolentino characterized it as “what a ballerina might do if you concussed her and then made her snort caffeine pills.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2025
I’m too startled by his snort to respond.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2024
As he reentered the courtroom on Tuesday, Eric Trump noticed Conway and gave a dismissive smirk and a snort.
From Slate ● May 1, 2024
I snort so loud, I have to clap my hands over my mouth.
From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day
Hedgehogs may be communicating with more than just snuffles, grunts and snorts, according to scientists who have discovered the animal's hearing range.
From BBC ● Mar. 10, 2026
The sounds of snorts drew Zambian farmer Mkanda Nkhata, 75, out of his house one day in 2024.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
Patel’s opening statement was punctuated by a series of snorts so loud that it seemed he might soon eject a noodle from his sinus cavity.
From Salon ● Sep. 17, 2025
The bull ran by, close enough for the family to hear his snorts and see his body heave with breath.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2025
I was greeted with many snorts and snarls from the trolls.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
I’ll admit, I snorted the first time I saw a TikTok of teens gussied up in suits to see a Minions movie.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
"Well then do it, if you want to do it!" snorted Dmytro Sova, a 42-year-old actor, speaking to AFP in Kyiv.
From Barron's ● Apr. 10, 2026
Young described how one doctor "snorted" when she suggested she might have fibromyalgia, before she was finally diagnosed.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2024
Staring down at it Peng thought the name was fake and snorted playfully: “Are you a good man?”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 24, 2023
She snorted and watched the line of goats waiting patiently to be milked.
From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack
Other symptoms include waking up a lot, loud snoring and gasping, snorting or choking.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
The popularity of Mr. Harris’s later novels featuring Hannibal faded: “Hannibal” was dismissed by Martin Amis as being, “on all levels, a snorting, rooting, oinking porker.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
In just two minutes, the movie had delivered everything it promised: a snorting monkey, a sucker in a flowered shirt, a shot of an ominous tire swing and a closeup of a peeled cheekbone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 2026
For sleep, participants were asked about snorting, gasping or breathing pauses in their sleep.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 4, 2024
There was the snorting protest of an overridden horse and the anxious stamping of hooves, followed by a thud as of a man leaping from the saddle.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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