snarl

They will fail through incompetence, or they will turn out to be un-implementable, or they will be struck down or snarled up in the courts.

Seven hours and a cross-country trip later, I was sprawled on the bed in my Miami hotel room, exhausted from the dawn journey, embracing a nap such that I ignored my suddenly snarling smartphone.

A few blocks east of Interstate 5, with nothing burning between him and the freeway, he had a decent escape route if things went bad — assuming the roads didn’t get snarled with traffic.

“Another Jimmy Carter,” Republicans would snarl about almost any Democrat.

Tubes snarl out of a mask covering his face as a vet tech listens to his chest with a stethoscope.