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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