Verb (used with object) : to snarl a threat.    From Dictionary.com. 

Noun : a traffic snarl.    From Dictionary.com. 

Verb (used with object) : The questions snarled him up.    From Dictionary.com. 

HOLMES: You know it's serious when they pull out the word snarled in the weather.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 2, 2007] Reference

Discussions over his name snarled the board's progress on amendments late Thursday evening.    From Wordnik.com.  [WBBM CBS 2 Chicago Top Videos Videos] Reference

The threads of her recall snarled hopelessly at that point.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ship Of Destiny]

You know, it's bad any time they put "snarled" in there.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 24, 2007] Reference

"Don't talk to me," Martin snarled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 18] Reference

Some kind of snarled John Ashbery mural in the confusing transfer hallways of Delancey Street? ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Give us more literature on public transport] Reference

"Ah! take care!" snarled Serge, with an evil look.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

  An angry dog face looked back at me and snarled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Winter '69] Reference

Mr. NOLAN: It's snarled at you like you are nothing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madoff Likely Won't Be Serving Time In 'Club Fed'] Reference

"You can just go take a closer look," Berry snarled.    From Wordnik.com.  [I Was a Teen-Age Secret Weapon] Reference

"Who's going to pay me for it?" snarled Jasper Parloe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill Or, Jasper Parloe's Secret] Reference

"Even the Vietnamese didn't question my ethics," he snarled.    From Wordnik.com.  ['White Tornado'] Reference

"I have not time to act a melodrama with you," snarled Serge.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

My nerves are all snarled up, and only a walk will unravel them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Motor Girls on Cedar Lake Or the Hermit of Fern Island] Reference

In the videos, he poses with guns drawn, his face grimly snarled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Making of a Massacre] Reference

"Well, you won't know anything more about me!" snarled the fellow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Swift and His Great Searchlight; or, on the border for Uncle Sam] Reference

"That thet, an 'l'arn to keep yer han's offen people!" he snarled.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dare Boys of 1776] Reference

"She's a mighty expensive piece of property," snarled the old man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp Or, Lost in the Backwoods] Reference

The engine snarled with two unrestricted wheels turning freely in the air.    From Wordnik.com.  [Above the River's Edge] Reference

"That's 'cause they're so old and valuable, my dear," snarled the old man.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bobbsey Twins in Washington] Reference

Gedney Raffer snarled out an imprecation when old Toby had replied as above.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret] Reference

"I'm not going to let you change my river," a furious game warden snarled at him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Custer Syndrome] Reference

When Ricky reached his vehicle he snarled some order and the side door slid open.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cool Aunt] Reference

But seeking approval for her evacuation, Irma's doctor got snarled in U.N. red tape.    From Wordnik.com.  [When There's No Peace To Keep] Reference

"What's that over there?" snarled Peters, pointing to something bright in the grass.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Motor Girls on Cedar Lake Or the Hermit of Fern Island] Reference

Recent efforts to make transracial adoption easier have been snarled in racial politics.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Politics Of Adoption] Reference

"So you're the fresh kid that got me jugged, are you!" he snarled with a menacing gesture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grace Harlowe's Senior Year at High School] Reference

It was in Francis Kent's failure to bridle this power that the threads were first snarled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference

Sure, traffic will be snarled for a while, and a few customers will spin into serious debt.    From Wordnik.com.  [But Wait'll You See Kmart's Opening] Reference

I ask if they need any help as we passed buy and short­est of the Kore­ans snarled at me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Transcript of a Bachelor Party] Reference

As a bodyguard flashed a Kalashnikov, Ghazaleh snarled that he would kill the station's owner.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shadow of Syria] Reference

"Keep that woman out of here," one of the men was said to have snarled as her husband lay dying.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Other Lincoln] Reference

"Well, you had better be careful, that's all I have got to say!" snarled the redcoat, viciously.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dare Boys of 1776] Reference

"There ye be, at last, hey?" snarled the old man, who was evidently just as angry as he could be.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret] Reference

Theron packed on 30 pounds for the role, shaved off her eyebrows and wore snarled prosthetic teeth.    From Wordnik.com.  [IF LOOKS COULD KILL] Reference