Sentence examples for snorted out from inspiring English sources

WHEN I told a married friend that I would be writing a column about wives who make more money than their husbands, he snorted out a laugh.

Conti became a ventriloquist after her mentor and lover, Ken Campbell, the maverick theatre person and "truffle pig for other people's talents", snorted out this old-fashioned and unfashionable stagecraft for her.

Maybe he's unkillable, Fish thinks, and he suddenly snorts out loud at the thought.

Either way, it's a great crossing that actually made me snort out loud.

Like, snorting out loud, laughing.

The bartender snorts out a couple of laughs but I don't mind; I like the sound of laughter, even when it's bitter.

Let's get the giggles and snorts out of the way now.

That smear has been wiped away since Hiddink's side came snorting out of the blocks to win at Aston Villa.

Not to mention that nothing will ever come close to the moniker of the ill-fated horse who featured in the wiseguy HBO program itself, Ralph Seffarono's PIE O' MY. (Memo to breeders and first-time buyers: Guys at the track can sniff out newcomers the way a fishmonger snorts out yesterday's catch. Think big and name big: naming a horse BEER GOGGLES is brilliant, BADABING stupid).

Hellenic mythology proposed Chimera, which appeared on pottery 2,500 years ago and was described by Homer in the Iliad (Book VI) as "a thing of immortal make, not human, lion-fronted and snake behind, a goat in the middle, and snorting out of breath of the terrible flame of bright fire".

It's snort-out-loud funny and – surprisingly, perhaps – brimming with actual physics.