Example sentences for: snubbing

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

  • The Yankees don't need welfare, and snubbing them will stop other teams from extorting their cities in the future.

  • Qaddafi as snubbing Egypt over its efforts to broker an agreement among Tripoli, London, and Washington for the trial to go ahead in Europe of two Libyan suspects in the 1988 bombing of a PanAm airliner over Lockerbie, Scotland.

  • Is there an automatic place for the top consciousness-raising tracts of the fifties (David Riesman's The Lonely Crowd ), sixties (Norman O. Brown's Love's Body ), seventies (Christopher Lasch's The Culture of Narcissism ), and eighties (Alan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind )? A tempting (and sensible) option is to split the difference between influence and style by picking the top books about the major events of the century: Communism (snubbing Whittaker Chambers's Witness would be a scandal), race and colonialism (Gunnar Myrdal's An American Dilemma , Octavio Paz's The Labyrinth of Solitude ); modern art (Woolf's A Room of One's Own , alas; Edmund Wilson's Axel's Castle , if To the Finland Station misses under Communism); and the Holocaust (with Anne Frank's diary likely to top the whole list).

  • We now have the essentials--a huge army dominated by leaders far to the right of the rest of society, a vast chasm between a tiny rich minority and everyone else, and the proliferation of soap operas in prime time, despite the counterrevolutionary snubbing of The Sopranos at Sunday night's Emmy Awards.


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