snarling 1 of 2

verb (1)

present participle of snarl
as in barking
to speak sharply or irritably she snarled at me after I kept badgering her with questions

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snarling

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verb (2)

present participle of snarl
as in tangling
to twist together into a usually confused mass you'll be awfully sorry if you snarl your fishing line

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Recent Examples of snarling
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Since 2024, the company has made clear its traditional customer base just isn’t all that interested in a car that doesn’t come with a snarling combustion engine. — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 2 Oct. 2026 Starting Saturday evening and continuing into Sunday morning’s high tide, the ocean poured into urban cities up and down the coast, breaking a recent record for flooding in Fort Lauderdale and snarling traffic in both counties. — Alex Harris updated September 27, Miami Herald, 27 Sep. 2026 The film opens upon a typical grumpy New York day, with traffic snarling the streets and horns honking. — Victor Garber, Vulture, 17 Sep. 2026 The internet is full of photos of 841 munching on purloined surfboards and then sitting on top of them, snarling at baffled young men in wet suits who try, and then think better of, fighting her for their property. — Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2026 Friday, spilling lumber across lanes and snarling the downtown Sacramento commute. — Sacbee.com, 4 Sep. 2026 Atlanta police said a man was struck and killed on the Downtown Connector near Williams Street, snarling the morning commute for hours. — Kaley Fedko, CBS News, 28 Aug. 2026 Like a scary transformation in a horror movie, the lovable beaver has morphed into a snarling predator. — Roger Dooley, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026 WestJet canceled 495 flights Sunday, snarling travel plans in Canada in the middle of a long holiday weekend. — ABC News, 3 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for snarling
  1. barking
  2. tangling
  3. shouting
  4. knotting
  5. yelling
  6. screaming
Verb
  • Mainly looking to drown out a snoring partner, a barking dog or an overactive brain?
    — Hanna Wickes, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Even Barnum understood that the public can balance a three ring circus and not follow the carnival barking of the ringmaster.
    — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Time, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of barking
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  • In 1984 the late mathematician Vaughan Jones introduced a new way to assign polynomials to knots, thereby tangling the two fields together.
    — Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American, 2 Oct. 2026
  • There are also the journalists, the athletes, and the kids who spend sunny days doing contact improv, which was invented at Oberlin, tangling their limbs in the grass outside the library.
    — Jesse Dougherty, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of tangling
Verb
  • After most of the sellout crowd filed out Wednesday, one solitary Sox fan stood at his seat under the press box, shouting obscenities about the Guardians and the city of Cleveland.
    — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 9 Oct. 2026
  • News of their separation had been made public earlier this year when LaBeouf was arrested in New Orleans for two charges of simple battery where he was eventually given probation despite allegedly also harassing locals and shouting homophobic slurs.
    — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of shouting
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  • Conine belted a solo homer in the second, knotting the score at 1-1.
    — Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 19 Aug. 2026
  • The San Antonio Spurs, who won Game 3 at the Garden, built a 29-point lead in Game 4 and appeared on the verge of knotting up the series.
    — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of knotting
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  • Then the national anthem began playing, and everyone stopped yelling.
    — Maxwell Adler, Vanity Fair, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Someone reported that a man with blood on his pants was yelling for help, according to the 911 call sheet.
    — Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of yelling
Verb
  • Research on hitting objects does not support it as a way to reduce anger, and there are too few studies of screaming to conclude its effects.
    — Tatiana Sataua, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2026
  • Onstage, Slayyyter, whose real name is Catherine Grace Garner, is a force, constantly moving around the stage, thrashing her head along to the music and screaming the lyrics to her songs.
    — Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of screaming

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“Snarling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snarling. Accessed 13 Oct. 2026.

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