Snarled is an English word with synonyms like knotted or knotty. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Snarled meaning
simple past and past participle of snarl
Using Snarled
- The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of snarl
- Useful related words include: knotted, knotty, snarly, tangled.
- In the example corpus, snarled often appears in combinations such as: snarled traffic, and snarled, is snarled.
Context around Snarled
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 9 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Snarled
- In this selection, "snarled" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, dylan, almost, traffic, traffic, mass and affordable stand out and add context to how "snarled" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and literally snarled where s and and traffic snarled in the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "snarled" sits close to words such as abattoirs, abike and ablative, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with snarled
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Traffic was snarled because of all the parked cars. (9 words)
Dylan snarled the words while the band was performing the moody song. (12 words)
Live traffic systems show traffic is snarled up for miles on the M42. (13 words)
At least five people have died in weather-related crashes in Missouri and Kansas amid a storm that dumped nearly a foot of snow in places, forced schools to close their doors and snarled traffic, authorities said. (37 words)
In other ways, though, the strategies haven’t worked as well, particularly for southwest Salt Lake County and northern Utah County, where traffic is snarled, affordable housing is hard to find, and residents are growing frustrated. (36 words)
Farmers blocked highway access roads and snarled traffic in parts of Germany on Monday with their tractors, launching a week of protests against a government plan to scrap tax breaks on diesel used in agriculture. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
Live traffic systems show traffic is snarled up for miles on the M42.
Lordy, projecting five years from now, Fort Lauderdale will be a snarled mass of a mess of traffic.
A holiday Monday crash in the southbound lanes of Highway 400 involving a motorcycle and a SUV has resulted in charges for the motorcycle driver and snarled traffic for cottagers heading home.
Dylan snarled the words while the band was performing the moody song.
Farmers blocked highway access roads and snarled traffic in parts of Germany on Monday with their tractors, launching a week of protests against a government plan to scrap tax breaks on diesel used in agriculture.
Forest and others cited recent winter nights when Broad Street is open to vehicles and traffic is snarled in the area anyway.
Hillary almost snarled when she mentioned "right-wing thinkers, so to speak" because she fully believes that she and other leftists are intellectual betters.
However, the car suffered damages and traffic snarled in the area due to the accident.
Traffic was snarled because of all the parked cars.
Everyone knew her marriage was in trouble, and her husband, Lord Snowden, stormed in halfway through the meal and literally snarled “Where’s my fucking dinner?” at her.
In a state normally considered safe for Republican candidates, Jones bested former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore, whose campaign was snarled by allegations of sexual misconduct with young women.
In other ways, though, the strategies haven’t worked as well, particularly for southwest Salt Lake County and northern Utah County, where traffic is snarled, affordable housing is hard to find, and residents are growing frustrated.
At least five people have died in weather-related crashes in Missouri and Kansas amid a storm that dumped nearly a foot of snow in places, forced schools to close their doors and snarled traffic, authorities said.
However, the way it snarled -- showing its teeth and lips curled back -- both agreed there was something wrong with the animal.
This outward migration has serious consequences for the city, in terms of lost tax revenue, waning political influence, competition for companies and workers, lost productivity, strained infrastructure and snarled traffic.
Where punk snarled and spat to dramatically shake up the nation, craft looks ineffably twee by comparison: needlework is not the Buzzcocks, knitting is not the Ramones.
With that, travel plans for hundreds of thousands were snarled, and tourism officials in vacation hot spots braced for a potentially devastating hit to their economies.
A major accident between a semi-truck and a pick-up snarled traffic Sunday afternoon on Hwy. 78 and CR 557.
Traffic was snarled as reddish and brown water bubbled from underneath the pavement for hours.
Transportation delays persisted in Tokyo on Tuesday as the city dug out from more than 20 cm of snow that had snarled traffic and trapped cars on bridges and in tunnels.
Common combinations with snarled
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- snarled traffic 7×
- and snarled 5×
- is snarled 3×
- was snarled 3×
- snarled in 2×
- snarled and 2×