(v. t.) To form raised work upon the outer surface of (thin metal ware) by the repercussion of a snarling iron upon the inner surface.
(v. t.) To entangle; to complicate; to involve in knots; as, to snarl a skein of thread.
(v. t.) To embarrass; to insnare.
(n.) A knot or complication of hair, thread, or the like, difficult to disentangle; entanglement; hence, intricate complication; embarrassing difficulty.
(v. i.) To growl, as an angry or surly dog; to gnarl; to utter grumbling sounds.
(v. i.) To speak crossly; to talk in rude, surly terms.
(n.) The act of snarling; a growl; a surly or peevish expression; an angry contention.
Example Sentences:
(1) In platform shoes to emulate Johnson's height, and with the aid of prosthetic earlobes, Cranston becomes the 36th president: he bullies and cajoles, flatters and snarls and barks, tells dirty jokes or glows with idealism as required, and delivers the famous "Johnson treatment" to everyone from Martin Luther King to the racist Alabama governor George Wallace.
(2) When Mohamed ElBaradei arrived in Midan Giza, a traffic-snarled interchange on the west bank of the Nile, for Friday prayers, he saw a graphic illustration of Egypt under President Hosni Mubarak: neat rows of police and plainclothes security officers lining the streets to maintain calm.
(3) But to enjoy it like a local, give the tourist-tat main road a miss and dive into the snarl of side streets, where wheeler-dealers hawk everything from rusty doorknobs to 17th-century art.
(4) A training exercise from 2006 had created the scenario of a car bomb attack on government buildings but a recommendation to close the roads around the central district had been snarled up in bureaucracy for five years, said the report.
(5) Planning permission for the laboratory was rejected twice by South Cambridgeshire district council on the grounds that protests by animal rights campaigners outside the facility would snarl up traffic and could become a nuisance to local residents.
(6) The girl who did that is an intern, she’s working for free,” she snarled.
(7) "But we do not want to snarl up the government's legislative programme on Lords reform.
(8) Traffic in New York snarls up under the sheer weight of backed-up, blacked-out limousines transporting the stressed-out bankers.
(9) Documents released on Saturday appear to show that officials loyal to Christie went to elaborate lengths to obscure the true motivation for the snarl-up by trying to make it appear to be part of a traffic flow study.
(10) Whether villainous or heroic, romantic or sly, funny or frightening, he put that snarl to good use alongside his dark-brown voice and melancholy features in a wide range of parts.
(11) Lampard was booked for a lunge on Modric while sniping and snarling at the officials was a constant theme.
(12) The Spaniard wins a free-kick, prompting Schweinsteiger to snarl menacingly in his ear.
(13) According to those who have dealt with him, he is far from a snarling Rottweiler.
(14) The trolling on my Twitter account has been particularly heavy this week, with various instructions to “fuck myself” as well as the snarling insistence that I attend a gathering of the KKK.
(15) Even ignoring the rather pathetic complaint submitted by a steward for what seemed an innocuous incident in the mouth of the tunnel late on here, this was another display that demonstrated too much snarl and not enough bite.
(16) A solo soul set, with Prince at a piano emitting a seamless flow of yips, whoops, snarls and moans of finely turned ecstasy.
(17) RSL meanwhile left the field snarling — Beckerman picking up a yellow as he argued with the referee on the way to the tunnel.They only had themselves to blame after lacking urgency in the first half.
(18) As it's one of those cities where honking in traffic is recreation, I wait for a snarl of cars to pass before asking a food stall attendant how he thinks the place has changed.
(19) Duterte called Pope Francis a “son of a whore” for snarling up Manila traffic earlier this year when he visited the country.
(20) False.” 2 Legitimate news organisations that regurgitate stories without checking, such as the $200 Bill Clinton haircut on Air Force One which supposedly snarled air traffic at LAX in 1993.
Surly
Definition:
(a.) Arrogant; haughty.
(a.) Gloomily morose; ill-natured, abrupt, and rude; severe; sour; crabbed; rough; sullen; gloomy; as, a surly groom; a surly dog; surly language; a surly look.
(a.) Rough; dark; tempestuous.
Example Sentences:
(1) The mood is fantastic: upbeat, from a crowd of older locals reliving their youth to cool young thangs attracted by Margate’s burgeoning reputation as Dalston-sur-Mer; fiftysomething men in braces and Harringtons, candy-floss-chomping teens… People are picnicking on the fake lawn beside the hair and beauty caravan, children gyrating newly bought hula-hoops to the strains of I’ve Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts.
(2) In tangentially fractured specimens, the cleavage plane jumps back and forth from the plasma membrane to a disk-bilayer, thereby giving rise to the known phenomenon of EF-ridges (on the extracellular fracture face) and PF-grooves (in the plasmatic fracture face) which both represent the level of the plasma membrane sur- or subjacent to the aisles between disks.
(3) One of the organisers told local newspaper El Sur that they wanted to show thanks to residents of the city for their support.
(4) Hb La Roche-sur-Yon [beta 81 (EF5) Leu----His] is an unstable hemoglobin variant displaying a moderately increased oxygen affinity.
(5) The Groupe de Recherche sur les Mélanomes Malins of the Centre hospitalier Lariboisière-Saint Louis has undertaken a randomized study of some therapeutic protocoles.
(6) Open 5 April- 30 September, camping from €18.20 a night for two, cabins from €51 a night for five Camping Le Pin Sec, Naujac-sur-Mer, near Bordeaux Amid pine forests and dunes just 50 metres from the sea, is a pop-up camp where surfers can stay in tipis with beds, carpets and electricity.
(7) Asked by judges for an explanation, the black-robed prosecutor Siddiq al-Sur said: "He was allowed visits, he was allowed to see his daughter, his cousins.
(8) The expression of Cat-301 immunoreactivity on Y cells in the cat LGN is sharply reduced by early visual deprivation (Sur et al., 1988).
(9) There’s no use being surly about the battle, we lost it but the war hasn’t begun.
(10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest People stand next to flooded railway tracks in Souppes-sur-Loing, south-east of Paris.
(11) These patients had been hospitalized in the Service of Acute Respiratory Diseases in Sur Teaching Children's Hospital in Santiago de Cuba during the months of March-April, 1987.
(12) This report examines the results of the Campaign of Eradication of the Mosquito Aedes aegypti in the Consolación del Sur district in Pinar del Rio, in the period ranging from August 1, 1981, to December 28, 1984, which included the intensive stage and the first 18 cycles of the consolidation stage.
(13) The man, who has not been identified, is accused of the cold-blooded murder of 25 people and with being an accomplice in the murder of hundreds of other civilians at the village of Oradour-sur-Glane in 1944.
(14) (Cestoda: Hymenolepididae), an intestinal parasite of the Pygmy white-toothed shrew, Suncus etruscus (Savi, 1822) (Insectivora: Soricidae: Crocidurinae) in the region of Banyuls-sur-Mer and Cerbère (Oriental Pyrenees, France).
(15) Every weekend he drives back to his family in Lille, taking the shuttle, bien sur.
(16) A subsequent wave of patchwork measures – including beefed-up border security, advertising campaigns in Central America warning people against travelling to the US, and the multimillion-dollar Southern Border Program (Plan Frontera Sur) to apprehend migrants in Mexico – were implemented in lieu of comprehensive immigration reforms that Republican lawmakers opposed.
(17) This, my friends, is what it's really like to be a film journalist: the sweaty people carrier, the surly heavies, the interminable sitting around....
(18) Then, when in turn the customs regulations became tight, he opened his own small restaurant in the Provençal town of L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue.
(19) This study deals with the medicinal use of 30 plants collected in the Municipio de Los Cabos and part of the Municipio de la Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico.
(20) The body of an 86-year-old woman was found in her flooded house in Souppes-sur-Loing in central France , where some towns have been hit by the worst flooding in more than 100 years.