SNUG in a Sentence

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For SNUG, below is one of 41 sentences:
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 SNUG
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
snug
 n.  a small secluded room; well and tightly constructed
Classic Sentence: (37 in 3 pages)
1  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
2  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
3  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
4  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...
5  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
6  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
7  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
8  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.
9  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.
10  There's your true Ashantee, gentlemen; there howl your pagans; where you ever find them, next door to you; under the long-flung shadow, and the snug patronising lee of churches.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
11  A difficult matter it was, too, to keep this Mohican boy snug in the ambushment.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 12
12  It afforded Mr. Bounderby supreme satisfaction to instal himself in this snug little estate, and with demonstrative humility to grow cabbages in the flower-garden.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
13  To keep my little business all snug, I depend upon you.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
14  Yes, yes we will have a snug walk together, and I have something to tell you as we go along.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
15  I fear that I have brought some traces of the storm and rain into your snug chamber.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS
Example Sentence:
1  I spent the afternoon snug and warm in bed.
2  Don't worry — he'll be all safe and snug in the barn.
3  The television was sheathed in a snug coverlet.
4  The farmyard was snugly sheltered with buildings on three sides.