SNUGLY in a Sentence

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I looked round me tranquilly and contentedly, like a quiet ghost with a clean conscience sitting inside the bars of a snug family vault.

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 Meanings and Examples of SNUGLY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
snug
 n.  a small secluded room; well and tightly constructed
Classic Sentence: (37 in 3 pages)
1  I went softly down to the kitchen which, tucked away so snugly underground, always seemed to me the heart and centre of the house.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIV
2  He began to stow various articles snugly into his knapsack.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
3  The men curled into depressions and fitted themselves snugly behind whatever would frustrate a bullet.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
4  When she awoke, she found herself snugly tucked up on the bed, with a blanket over her, and little Ruth rubbing her hands with camphor.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
5  Well, we came to the old boat again in good time at night; and there Mr. and Mrs. Barkis bade us good-bye, and drove away snugly to their own home.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 10. I BECOME NEGLECTED, AND AM PROVIDED FOR
6  These three hundred livres he reckoned upon putting snugly into his pocket.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 32 A PROCURATOR'S DINNER
7  We did not stay there, after dinner, but came upstairs into the drawing-room again: in one snug corner of which, Agnes set glasses for her father, and a decanter of port wine.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 15. I MAKE ANOTHER BEGINNING
8  It was a perfectly decent room, half parlour and half kitchen, but not at all a snug room.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17. SOMEBODY TURNS UP
9  I found the fire burning clear enough in my room by this time, and the curtains drawn before the windows and round the bed, giving it a very snug appearance.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 20. STEERFORTH'S HOME
10  Both get very comfortable fees, and altogether they make a mighty snug little party.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 23. I CORROBORATE Mr. DICK, AND CHOOSE A PROFESSI...
11  Miss Micawber I found made snug for stormy weather, in the same manner; with nothing superfluous about her.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 57. THE EMIGRANTS
12  It was one of those snug, lucrative berths of which there are so many more nowadays than there used to be, with incomes ranging from one thousand to fifty thousand roubles.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 7: Chapter 17
13  Then in the morning we'll lie snug in our blankets and look up through the pines at an eagle.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
14  We felt very nice and snug, the more so since it was so chilly out of doors; indeed out of bed-clothes too, seeing that there was no fire in the room.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11. Nightgown.
15  I looked round me tranquilly and contentedly, like a quiet ghost with a clean conscience sitting inside the bars of a snug family vault.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 49. The Hyena.
Example Sentence:
1  The farmyard was snugly sheltered with buildings on three sides.
2  I spent the afternoon snug and warm in bed.
3  Don't worry — he'll be all safe and snug in the barn.
4  The television was sheathed in a snug coverlet.