Sentence examples for sneered from inspiring English sources

'sneered' is a correct and usable word in written English
It is a verb that means to make a scornful or mocking expression, often to another person. Example sentence: She sneered at her opponent's argument.

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sneered

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Past of sneer

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Its "voters are going nowhere", Parris sneered, for "this is tracksuit-and-trainers Britain, tattoo-parlour Britain, all-our-yesterdays Britain".

They probably sneered even harder when I whooped down the water slide from the top deck, somersaulting into the pea-soup-coloured water.

Pointing to the statue on top of the adjacent St Pancras terminus, which was built as a direct competitor in the 1860s, Johnson said that the "acroterion had scorned, and sneered at" King's Cross.

It was like homosexuals in the 1960s who wouldn't say anything because they'd be sneered at".

But Winterbottom, a competent pre-war centre-half for Manchester United, unfairly sneered at by some England international veterans as one who had never played, was, in essence, a bureaucrat rather than a technician, who would admit his other job – yes, he had two! – as FA director of coaching was the more important of the two.

Karpov's riposte to those who sneered that he was champion in name only was to play in almost every top-flight tournament over the next 10 years, thrashing his rivals and setting a new record for cons ecutive tournament victories.

China's democratic credentials can be sneered at.

"It's a stupid, disrespectful question," sneered the Stuttgart sporting director, Fredi Bobic, when a reporter asked him about the future of his manager, "VfB have parted company with head coach Bruno Labbadia with immediate effect," the club announced on Twitter the next morning.

As voters came in, the volunteers crossed their names off pre-programmed lists; the remaining names went to a central site in the state, so that likely Republican voters who had not yet come to the polls could be contacted.The students sneered at the effort by Kerry supporters to do the same more haphazardly.

Relying on a voluntary registry scheme was another faith-based initiative, sneered one.

Snobs sneered along with Scots.

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