Sentence examples for with snub from inspiring English sources

Sometimes there is a hankering, more felt than articulated, for types with snub noses, shortened upper lips, eyes set on a slight diagonal, and petulant expressions that inspire one to offer them a dish of cream.

"If you're a chubby little loser, you're all alone, at the bottom of the pile," Mark says at the beginning, and the plaintive note is struck time and again, to the point of embarrassment; even when his lot improves, Anna still spurns him as a mate, because he would be likely to sire porky little Marks with snub noses.

When the elevator stops on their floor and the doors open, Nepalese Gurkha guards with snub-nosed submachine guns are standing in the hallway to check out who's getting off.

The cables show US diplomats resorting to flattery, pressure and financial inducements but still meeting with snubs, particularly from Europe.

Picking quarrels with snubs and omissions has maybe become too much of a critical bloodsport in recent years.

Along with snubbing Carly Rae Jepsen's inescapable and delightful single "Call Me Maybe," Ocean's album loss was the Grammys at their most cynical.

On another level is the torrent of tactical errors by the White House in ignoring and disrespecting Mr. Jeffords with snubs and oversights.

These performers say the unsayable, mixing the selfishness of Reagan's social philosophy with snubs at the post-60s liberal platitudes of their parents.

So why, having gotten away with so much already, shouldn't Mr. Bush imagine that he can get away with snubbing the debate commission, and going on Larry King instead?

Many popular girls are also highly aggressive, bullying unpopular girls with snubs and gossip to maintain their high status, according to research by a husband-and-wife team of sociologists, Dr. Patricia Adler of the University of Colorado and Dr. Peter Adler of the University of Denver.

Oscar nominations were rife with snubs Thursday morning, particularly in the director category, where several favorites were absent from the list.