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How to use sneak in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb, adjective

Sneak means one who sneaks; one who moves stealthily to acquire an item or information. Example: “My little brother is such a sneak; yesterday I caught him trying to look through my diary.”

Examples of sneak by meaning

nounOne who sneaks; one who moves stealthily to acquire an item or information.

  • My little brother is such a sneak; yesterday I caught him trying to look through my diary.

nounA cheat; a con artist.

  • I can't believe I gave that sneak $50 for a ticket when they were selling for $20 at the front gate.

nounA sneaker; a tennis shoe.

  • We would have been laughed off the street in Philadelphia if we were seen wearing sneaks.2014, Faye McKnight, Goodnight, Bob, page 9

verbTo creep or go stealthily; to come or go while trying to avoid detection, as a person who does not wish to be seen.

  • He decided to sneak into the kitchen for a second cookie while his mom was on the phone.

verbTo take (something) in a surreptitious manner, so as to avoid being noticed.

  • I went to sneak a chocolate but my dad caught me.

verbTo stealthily bring someone something.

  • She asked me to sneak her a phone next month.

verbTo inform an authority of another's misdemeanours.

  • If you sneak on me I'll bash you!

adjectiveIn advance; before release to the general public.

  • The company gave us a sneak look at their new electronic devices.

More sentences with sneak

  • The insurgents snuck up close and mortared the base last night.From the entry mortar
  • There's quite a gap, so you may be able to sneak under.From the entry under
  • I snuck a look at his chart. It doesn't look good.From the entry chart
  • Visit the website for a sneak peek of their new movie.From the entry sneak peek
  • Their dress rehearsal will be a sneak preview of the show for theater members.From the entry sneak preview
  • I snuck into the theatre because the movie had already started.From the entry snuck
  • Then he went and sneaked on me to my boss. What a ratbag!From the entry ratbag
  • If you sneak up from behind like that, you'll give me a heart attack!From the entry sneak up
  • Watch out for that brown liquor. It sneaks up on you quickly.From the entry sneak up
  • I'm going to try to sneak in by the back door.From the entry sneak in
  • With Newport's team suffering from injuries, Springfield was able to sneak in to the quarter-finals.From the entry sneak in
  • It might be seen as inappropriate, but I'll sneak it past human resources.From the entry sneak past
  • If someone sneaks my lunch again, I'm actually going to go berserk.From the entry go berserk
  • I had to sneak out to meet my girlfriend and tell the olds I was going to the library.From the entry old
  • She sneaked up on me from behind.From the entry behind
  • It's easy to sneak vandalism into Wiktionary as there are few other users prowling the Recent Changes page.From the entry prowl
  • We sneaked into the soldiers' camp, and stole five thundersticks.From the entry thunderstick
  • This program will sneak around state laws.From the entry sneak around
  • On the last night of camp, it was tradition for the girls' cabin to sneak down to the lake for a midnight skinny dip.From the entry skinny dip
  • He picked up the sell from the straw-strewn barn-floor, snelly sneaked up behind her and sleekly slung it around her swire while scryingː "dee, dee ye fooking quhoreǃ".From the entry sell
  • And in the case of ABDLism, would u sneak something diaper related in?2024 May 15, @joezell1, Twitter. From the entry ABDLism
  • Veganly, you undo yourself in hopes that after a time you can sneak back in.2023, Brenda Shaughnessy, “‘You’—my friend I made and lost, I did not write”, in Tanya: Poems, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN…. From the entry veganly
  • We sneak into town using Dwarfish sneakery so no one sees us.2013, Robert P. Wills, Nikki Taylor, Tales From A Second Hand Wand Shoppe. From the entry sneakery
  • I sneaked a look at what the German student in the next carrel was reading.2011, David Bellos, “Global Flows: Center and Periphery in the Translation of Books”, in Is that a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the…. From the entry carrel
  • He snuck into Haiti and scored herbs to rev him and calm him.2010, James Ellroy, Blood's a Rover, page 90. From the entry logic
  • I sneak off behind the crates to grab forty winks where the supervisor can't find me.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (science fiction), Redwood City, Calif.: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, P.C., scene: Eden Prime. From the entry forty winks
  • If they were so curious, they could've just snuck in a spycam.2008, Peter Watts, Blindsight. From the entry spycam
  • You have to protect your place in traffic, or some yahoo will sneak in before you.2001 June, Chloe Green [pseudonym; Suzanne Frank], chapter 1, in Designed to Die, New York, N.Y.: Kensington Books, →ISBN, page 3. From the entry ooch
  • The restaurant opened at six, and he sneaked down for coffee, then sneaked back to his room.1992, John Grisham, The Pelican Brief, page 275. From the entry sneaked
  • "But instead of going there, I sneaked into the Trunchbull's room.1989, Roald Dahl, Matilda. From the entry gym knickers
  • Bets and I take off for Tal racing down the trail, packless and wearing sneaks.1982 February 13, Lee Swislow, “Amazon Trekking”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 29, page 8. From the entry packless
  • And even I, yawning boredly to avoid suspicion, sneaked an occasional peek.1981 May, William Childress, “Conversation”, in Friends, volume 38, number 5, page 29. From the entry diaper shot

Meaning of sneak

  1. noun One who sneaks; one who moves stealthily to acquire an item or information.
  2. noun The act of sneaking.
  3. noun A cheat; a con artist.

Full definition of sneak

Questions about sneak in a sentence

How do you use sneak in a sentence?
Sneak is used as a noun, verb and adjective. For example: “My little brother is such a sneak; yesterday I caught him trying to look through my diary.”
What is a short sentence with sneak?
“She sneaked up on me from behind.”
What does sneak mean?
Sneak means one who sneaks; one who moves stealthily to acquire an item or information.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sneak (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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