Example sentences for: sneering

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

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

  • One is the sneering query put by the slave master Edward G. Robinson to the humbled Israelite leader Charlton Heston: "Where is your God now, Moses?"

  • On the whole, the national press has a sneering stereotypical view of the state, which you'd think was overrun with oil-slicked bumpkins, tyrannical high-school football coaches, mechanical-bull-riding smoothies, and the odd computer geek, but no one sneers with more relish than the Times . Maybe it dates back to the trouble Molly Ivins had as the paper's Denver bureau chief.

  • 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."

  • On the other hand, the star is Mike Nichols, in his first-ever film appearance and with a sneering comic timing that has somehow improved in the 30-odd years since he stopped performing with Elaine May.


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