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 female’s nose is an unremarkable little snub, but zoologists say that she appreciates, and is even aroused by, the male’s proboscis.

  • Le Figaro , in a signed editorial by Pierre Rousselin, used exactly the same phrase as Le Monde when it called the vote "an unprecedented snub"--"un camouflet sans précédent "--to a president of the United States.

  • Enormous college loans behind legal-aid snub

  • 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.


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