Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: snugly
IPA transcription: [sn'ʌɡli]
r meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: snugly
    Meaning: fitting closely; "the vest fit snugly"
  • Synonyms: snugly
    Meaning: safely protected; "concealed snugly in his hideout"
Usage examples
  • He began to stow various articles snugly into his knapsack.
  • In his pocket, snugly tucked away, were the two stones Mr. Jenks had given him.
  • "I know a house where I can hide so snugly that all the Boolooroo's soldiers cannot find me."
  • Three months passed, and, as the old woman had bidden her, the queen took the egg from her bosom, and laid it snugly amidst the warm woollen folds.
  • I did not wish to disturb him. I went softly down to the kitchen which, tucked away so snugly underground, always seemed to me the heart and center of the house.
  • Just beyond the bridge, settled snugly in a forest of waving branches, we see storied old Warwick Castle, with Caesar's Tower lifting itself from the mass of green.
  • There were many paths through the woods back of the cottages, and I followed several futilely before I at last found a small house snugly bid away in a thicket of young maples.
  • She did not know this, for she was always lying snugly tucked up in her bed, and the warm morning sun usually drove away the winds; but her mother knew it, and feared Mary's garden would suffer.
  • Into this I was hustled and locked, whereupon the cage rose swiftly again to a hole in the bottom of the hull, into which it fitted snugly, and I stepped into the interior of a craft not unlike the one with which I had had my fateful encounter, the cage being unlocked.