Example sentences for: sneering

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

  • The temptation is to write a sneering comparison of rural and urban life.

  • An unremarkable snipe coming from a noted anti-Clintonite, except that this particular snipe comes from Mary Matalin, who spent a quarter-hour this Sunday sneering at every point offered by her fellow panelist and husband, James Carville.

  • Gore's sneering gestures all seemed rehearsed and theatrical.

  • For example, this is her interpretation of one of Barbey's religious monsters (the seductor and rapist of an innocent country girl in A Nameless Story ): The name Riculf seems to be a clever composite of two French words: rire, meaning to laugh, comes directly from the Latin rictus meaning a mocking sneering laughter; and culer meaning to back away or go astray.

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


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