snooker

"He used to come over and play snooker with me. He texted me not so long ago."

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

Boxing was dead, darts was non-existent, snooker was stuck in the air.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

To their presumable dismay, there are no scenes of the singer quitting the tour to go house-hunting, external; throwing snooker balls at Blur, external; or starting a fight on a cross-channel ferry.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

Barry is the founder and president of Matchroom Sport, one of the leading promoters in boxing, darts and snooker, while his son Eddie is chairman of the organisation.

From Barron's ● May 15, 2026

They do what is called glancing, which is the same word for bumping off something and carrying on in almost the same direction, e.g., when a snooker ball glances off another snooker ball.

From "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon

With three episodes left, it seems odd that the writers devised a tale in which Saul snookers a mall cop with an oversized pastry.

From New York Times ● Jul. 25, 2022

However, the 2012 champion made breaks of 83, 95 and 119 to win four of the next five frames and got two snookers in the finale to clinch the win 6-5.

From BBC ● Jan. 15, 2022

An opening nine of 40 – McIlroy whacked his tee shot out of bounds at the 9th – meant he required snookers to win.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 8, 2020

McIlroy’s 75 – including 37 putts – leaves him nine adrift and needing Sunday snookers.

From The Guardian ● May 14, 2016

The Foxes don't quite need snookers yet but, sticking with the same analogy, they are tucked up behind the black and it will be very difficult for them to get out of trouble from there.

From BBC ● Mar. 19, 2015

“The assertion that the U.S. Attorney’s Office was snookered by the Department of the Interior is not fooling anybody,” Eisen said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

He insisted the banks she alleges were snookered with lofty valuations suffered no harm, got paid in his deals and “to this day have no complaints.”

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 31, 2023

She absconded with money from Rupert Murdoch and the DeVos family and snookered people like Henry Kissinger, all of which is so funny that you almost want to root for her.

From Salon ● Jun. 14, 2022

“When you find out who the murderer is and begin leafing through the pages, looking for missed clues,” Tina Jordan recently commented in The Times, “you’ll realize just how completely Christie snookered you.”

From New York Times ● Jan. 7, 2022

“Okay, so the authorities are being snookered by these hidden messages. But how could they resist the facts? Show them your Receiver gizmo, Mr. Benedict. They’ll have to believe you.”

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart

Leading 5-2, Murphy knocked in 15 reds and 15 blacks to reach 120 with only the colours remaining but ended up snookering himself behind the blue and the chance was lost.

From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2025

But the crypto implosion at least has a cleansing benefit: It offers an opportunity to mop up a speculative and overhyped mess that has gotten badly out of control, snookering gullible investors in the process.

From Washington Post ● May 20, 2022

Longer pot shots and a more frequent use of snookering?

From The Guardian ● May 23, 2012

David Hampton posed as the son of Sidney Poitier, snookering high-caste Manhattan.

From New York Times ● Sep. 17, 2011

But, as in any case of cloak-and-dagger, it's sometimes hard to tell exactly who's snookering whom.

From Time Magazine Archive