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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.
After a sneering account of Reagan's remarks that entirely misses their political significance, Morris writes,
Gore's sneering gestures all seemed rehearsed and theatrical.
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.
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.
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