Example sentences for: sneering

How can you use “sneering” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • One cannot easily translate these pejorative suffixes into English: they are a malignly ingenious way of turning an otherwise perfectly inoffensive name into an inherently insulting one, of saying James , for instance, in such a sneering way that no add-on adjectives are needed to convey your obvious but unspecified disdain.

  • Kifner's smug, sneering piece wasn't labeled "News Analysis."

  • (And, incidentally, sneering comparisons are a big part of the next round of SATs.

  • His sophomoric sneering at Sidney Blumenthal.

  • Scheck had conducted a magnificent defense of accused baby killer Louise Woodward, complete with his trademark sneering speeches, windmilling arms, and devastating cross-examinations.


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