snaggy
Example Sentences
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It was carried through the dense, snaggy brush of the forest until the woods intersected a trail.
From New York Times ● May 21, 2012
A troupe of actors in snaggy bear costumes and moose outfits frolics through a wilderness of papier-mache rocks and trees painted on screens, while a chorus of owls and frogs makes deep-woods sounds.
From Time Magazine Archive
Wide-awake as Jack generally was, it was only when a horseman mounted on a snaggy pony suddenly appeared in front of him that he became aware that there was a Boer within miles of him.
From With Rifle and Bayonet A Story of the Boer War by F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton
My face had the hospital pallor, and, with my long hair and beard, I know I looked "snaggy" like a potato that has been forgotten in a dark corner of the cellar.
From Three Times and Out by Nellie L. McClung
For the black horse had taken to the parked uplands, the dragging rope had tangled in a snaggy tree-root, and he was tracing weary circles in bootless effort to be free.
From Bransford of Rainbow Range Originally Published under the title of Bransford in Arcadia, or, The Little Eohippus by Eugene Manlove Rhodes
