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
• But activists for women’s rights tend to snort at such moves.
  — The Economist, 12 Oct. 2017
• Smith would snort some heroin and would then try to stay off of it for a few days or a week.
  — Eric Heisig, cleveland.com, 30 Apr. 2018
• Be creative in a way that will make your partner laugh, or snort, or roll their eyes at you.
  — Sophia Benoit, GQ, 28 June 2018
• There were houses where the parents would snort cocaine with us.
  — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2018
• But the old friends soon run into a coke-snorting pair of rich sociopaths who do.
  — Lincoln Michel, GQ, 19 May 2018
• The sow bounced forward a couple of times, snorting.
  — William D. Brown, Outdoor Life, 13 Nov. 2025
• The student crushed a pill and snorted it on the home’s front porch, the complaint said.
  — Alfredo Corchado, Dallas News, 8 Apr. 2023
• The president smirked and rolled his eyes and did everything but snort and spit.
  — Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2020
• At the door, a hulking bouncer warns people not to snort their pills in the parking lot.
  — Faith Karimi, CNN, 3 Feb. 2023
• The nose touched shore, the ramp went down and the tractor snorted into water hip deep.
  — Washington Post, 29 May 2018
• Also watch for a head thrown back, shaking of the head, grunting and snorting.
  — Forrest Brown, CNN, 12 Apr. 2023
• Barry is the kind of folk singer who writes about jumping trains and snorting methamphetamine.
  — John Adamian, courant.com, 23 June 2018
• Pari snorts at this but, as a woman, must conceal her amusement while the men roar with laughter.
  — J.r. Jones, Chicago Reader, 14 Feb. 2018
• 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
• But the drugs were able to be crushed and snorted or dissolved in liquid and injected.
  — Andrew Joseph, STAT, 9 Jan. 2020
• At the bottom the bus snorted out a cloud of impatient exhaust.
  — Cynthia Ozick, Harper's Magazine, 10 Apr. 2023
• Fentanyl can be snorted, smoked or laced with other drugs such as heroin and cocaine.
  — Otis R. Taylor Jr., SFChronicle.com, 11 Nov. 2019
• Why an offensive line coach was caught snorting cocaine off his training camp desk.
  — Greg Cote january 26, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2026
• Going to the bathroom was more about snorting cocaine then for anything else.
  — Ben Trivett, PEOPLE.com, 19 Oct. 2017
• The drug can be in the form of powder, crystals or pills and can be smoked, snorted or injected.
  — Parker Schorr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 Oct. 2019
• Foerster can be seen snorting three lines of a substance with a $20 bill.
  — Joe Schad, ajc, 9 Oct. 2017
• 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
• Drug users might take a smaller amount of the drug, inject a tester shot or snort the drug instead of using a syringe.
  — Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 18 Nov. 2021
• People were going into the stairwells to snort coke or up to the roof to smoke cigarettes.
  — Amelia Harnish, refinery29.com, 25 June 2019
• Miles had just come out of retirement after six years of doing little more than snorting coke.
  — Literary Hub, 9 Mar. 2026
• This party goes on far too long, as couples wander in and out of bedrooms and cocaine is snorted.
  — Caryn James, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Sep. 2023
• No need to snort at the fact that Rangers pitchers gave up just three runs in three games to the likes of Oakland.
  — Dallas News, 26 Apr. 2022

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
• The class had been quiet after the camp text, but now there was at least one snort.
  — Literary Hub, 10 July 2026
• 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