Example sentences for: sneering

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

  • 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.

  • His sophomoric sneering at Sidney Blumenthal.

  • John Glenn's return to space was the occasion for much sneering.

  • After a sneering account of Reagan's remarks that entirely misses their political significance, Morris writes,

  • At the end of the set, someone in the crowd yells out the word "." To which Dylan, after a pause, by sneering back the title of a song he just played: "I Don't Believe You."


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