Example sentences for: sneers

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

  • 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.

  • "Their commitment and leadership is something for which President Clinton should be praised, rather than the sneers he receives from the Right in this country."

  • But the notion of the public intellectual is much older than that of, say, the gentlemen-scholar, whom no one sneers at, except perhaps organic intellectuals.

  • "There must be more to being a Jew than your kind of Episcopalian," she sneers.

  • When a panelist remarks that many immigrants are valedictorians, Stein sneers, "You and I should visit some federal prisons together."


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