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How to use snack in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Snack means a light meal. Example: “The fives and sixes will have a snack first, then the older kids.”

Examples of snack by meaning

nounAn item of food eaten between meals.

  • Stay another fifteen minutes, in which we can have a snack of some kind in place of dinner.1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries
  • The numbers thin out the further we get from London, so I don't feel guilty when I remove my mask momentarily to scoff some of the snacks I'd bought at Marylebone.2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 68

nounA very sexy and attractive person.

  • Up close, he was a total snack.2008, Scott Sherman, First You Fall: A Kevin Connor Mystery, Alyson Publications
  • You were looking like a snack.2019, Loy A. Webb, The Light, Concord Theatricals, →ISBN, page 22
  • He was a total snack.2020, Gena Showalter, Prince of Stone, HQN Books, →ISBN

verbTo eat a light meal.

  • Insult is added to injury when I see the West Coast Railways dining train at the adjacent platform, where guests are sat snacking and drinking wine at a very sociable distance.2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 66

More sentences with snack

  • The fives and sixes will have a snack first, then the older kids.From the entry five
  • Stand up, walk to the refrigerator, and get your own snack.From the entry stand
  • Grapes give us whole-fruit snacks, grape juice, raisins, wine, and more.From the entry grape
  • Vendors were selling sunglasses, bagged snacks, and sundry other items from handcarts in the square.From the entry handcart
  • Karen's new students thought treat day was a feeding frenzy and horded the snack table.From the entry feeding frenzy
  • Jars of pickled eggs are seen in British pubs, where they are served as bar snacks.From the entry pickled egg
  • Toffee apples and fairy floss are often sold as fairground snacks.From the entry toffee apple
  • His mother will fix up a snack for the sleepover tonight.From the entry fix up
  • There's nothing I like more than snacking down on some nice crispy potato chips.From the entry snack down on
  • Let's stop at the off-licence and load up on booze and snacks.From the entry load up
  • The patients in the control group had ad lib access to snacks and were given no extra dietary advice.From the entry ad lib
  • I brought a bunch of random snacks, but nothing nutritious.From the entry random
  • The Kraft Heinz exhibit at the trade fair was a taster of new snack products set to hit the market soon.From the entry taster
  • I don't just want a snack; I need something substantial.From the entry substantial
  • Company policy was to eat snacks only in the lunchroom.From the entry lunchroom
  • Would a small snack tide you over until dinner?From the entry tide over
  • She took a break from studying to eat a snack.From the entry take a break
  • The consumption of snack food is linked with obesity.From the entry snack food
  • These poppable treats are perfect as an on-the-go snack.From the entry poppable
  • I raided the fridge for snacks.From the entry raid
  • Spicy but delicate Vienna sausages are eaten with various dishes such as sauerkraut or as a snack by themselves, with or without relish.From the entry Vienna sausage
  • Snacks include biltong and chakalaka spicy relish – all available from specialist store the Savanna.2026 June 6, Joanne Gould, “Pass the chakalaka! The best World Cup drinks and snacks – inspired by all 48 teams”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry biltong
  • Neither has knocking off your fave Starbucks snack either, thanks to this TikTok-approved egg bite maker.2024 October 8, Lauren Gruber, Megan Uy, “We Found Sooo Many Viral TikTok Items on Sale for October Prime Day”, in Cosmopolitan. From the entry knock off
  • I scoff these as a mid-afternoon snack, as part of a 'picky tea' or even just because.2023, Jane Dunn, Jane’s Patisserie Everyday. From the entry picky tea
  • Alabama Hot Pockets are a popular snack food enjoyed by many people.2023 August 27, Stewart Martha, “Lofty Recipes”, in Alabama Hot Pockets Recipe. From the entry Alabama hot pocket
  • Cooks will work long hours preparing sweets and snacks like pani puri.2022 October 17, Priya Krishna, “It’s Not Diwali Without Mithai”, in The New York Times. From the entry panipuri
  • We wolved down some snacks, two MRE’s each and made some coffee!2021, Brian Hughes, 71 Mph: A Travel Journal Written for You and Me. From the entry wolve down
  • These natural flapjacky snack bars should come with a warning – they're killer moreish.2019 January 29, Kieran Alger, “7 best all-natural energy foods – from shakes to bars”, in The Independent, London: Independent News &…. From the entry flapjacky
  • An oatie makes a great snack for any time of the day.2018, Mat Follas, Afternoon Tea at Bramble Cafe, London: Ryland Peters & Small, →ISBN. From the entry oatie
  • You will also want to include a snack for hikes longer than a couple of miles.2016, Diane Stresing, 60 Hikes within 60 Miles: Cleveland including Akron and Canton, 3rd edition, Menasha Ridge Press, →ISBN, page 7. From the entry gorp
  • You did notice that our stripy friend is trying to snack on me?"2015, Bruce Hale, Ends of the Earth, page 122. From the entry stripy
  • The babbling stream, people spreading out rush mats to sit on, snacking on kimbap.2015, Han Kang, translated by Deborah Smith, The Vegetarian, Granta, published 2018, page 12. From the entry kimbap
  • Wrap them individually for a super convenient snack on the go.2014, Lisa Viger, Easy, Affordable Raw: How to Go Raw on $10 a Day, page 88. From the entry anytime
  • Sewer grates, straining under the weight of quarter water bottles and wrappers from cheap snacks and cakes.2014, Miss Sixx, 15th & East Capitol, →ISBN, page 69. From the entry bus pass

Meaning of snack

  1. noun A light meal.
  2. noun An item of food eaten between meals.
  3. noun A very sexy and attractive person.

Full definition of snack

Questions about snack in a sentence

How do you use snack in a sentence?
Snack is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The fives and sixes will have a snack first, then the older kids.”
What is a short sentence with snack?
“He was a total snack.”
What does snack mean?
Snack means a light meal.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: snack (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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