snore
IPA: snˈɔr
noun
- The act of snoring, and the noise produced.
- (informal) An extremely boring person or event.
verb
- To breathe during sleep with harsh, snorting noises caused by vibration of the soft palate.
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Examples of "snore" in Sentences
- Set volume to "snore" and there you have it - we sleep... together.
- She says that I make more noise than an aeroplane when I snore, which is not true.
- And just who wouldn't, after hearing the same, boring, three-word story, begin to "snore"?
- Depending on the age, as many as 12 percent of children may snore, which isn't necessarily a concern.
- Madam raised her voice in saying this, and nodded significantly; but a mild snore from the other room seemed to assure her that it was a waste of shot to fire in that direction.
- His snore was a medley of snuffing and snorting, with an abortive demi-semi aristocratic sort of a sneeze; while to add to the effect of this three-stringed inspiration there was in each aspiration a tremulous and swooning neigh.
- When oxygen levels drop people with apnea stop breathing for long periods -- the snore is a kind of gasp for air, the bear's robot arm reaches around and tickles its user's face, so that the user rolls onto his side, where breathing is less labored.
- His speech was followed by an uproar of applause, as its patriotism and self-devotion unquestionably deserved; and the shouts and clapping of hands would have been greatly prolonged, had they not been rendered quite inaudible by a deep respiration, vulgarly called a snore, from the sleeping Hercules.
- If it shall interest the general reader, and call snore attention to the welfare of seamen, or give any information as to their real condition which may serve to raise them in the rank of beings, and to promote in any measure their religous and moral improvement, and diminish the hardships of their daily life, the end of its publication will be answered.
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