Example sentences for: snub

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

  • The list (footnoted to the piece on Henry Louis Gates Jr.) of dead white men excluded from The Dictionary of Global Culture includes one Alexandre Dumas, who was, in fact, one-quarter African, which makes this snub of one of the most productive and popular novelists of all time all the stranger.

  • The Italian papers Friday fronted what they called a snub to Pope John Paul II by China, when it consecrated five "patriotic" Roman Catholic bishops in Beijing without his authorization.

  • Enormous college loans behind legal-aid snub

  • The WSJ "Washington Wire" notes that in D.C., the jettisoning from NATO of Gen. Clark in favor of Gen. Ralston is viewed as a snub of the Army, which traditionally gets one of its generals in the NATO commander's job.

  • French-speaking citizens protested the snub with a petition and a demonstration that got out of control and turned into violence.


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