Example sentences for: sneering

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • 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.


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