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• They hooked English, sneaking out behind the school and smoking cigarettes.From the entry hook
• Gotcha! What do you think you're doing, sneaking around in here?From the entry gotcha
• He scared me out of my wits, sneaking up behind me in the dark like that.From the entry scare someone out of their wits
• I have the sneaking suspicion that he has already taken a decision about this.From the entry sneaking suspicion
• He scared me out of my mind, sneaking up behind me in the dark like that.From the entry scare someone out of their mind
• She wondered what sort of monkey business her neighbour was up to, sneaking out of his house at 1:00 am.From the entry monkey business
• Instead of fixing him with the requisite Nancy Reagan gaze, she kept sneaking glances out the window.2011 February 12, Miriam Lord, “Hard to keep up the Nancy Reagan gaze when a rugby hero undresses”, in The Irish Times. From the entry Nancy Reagan gaze
• Issa found a place where the fence had been underdug, and thought about sneaking into the town.2011, Adam Roberts, By Light Alone, London: Gollancz, →ISBN, page 348. From the entry underdig
• “Just don't go sneaking into my desk anymore,” she added mommishly before walking away.2011, Karla Oceanak, Dumbstruck, page 134. From the entry mommishly
• And watch out for the permatrolls sneaking those cross-posts back in when they reply.2006 April 5, chr...@removethistoreply.gwu.edu, “Re: Michelle Trachtenberg brought the suck to Buffy too”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer (Usenet). From the entry permatroll
• They keep sneaking up on me, and I don't know why.2005, Nora Roberts, Red Lily. From the entry blahs
• The camera, sneaking another quick look at the chanteuse, was rewarded with the flicker of a smile.1996, Sarah Harrison, Life after Lunch, London: Sceptre, →ISBN, page 9. From the entry berserk
• "What do you think, though; came sneaking back on the eight-forty.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 82. From the entry stockinged
• An inordinate number of street food legends begin with Emperor Such-and-Such sneaking away from the palace for a forbidden snack.2018, Howie Southworth, Greg Matza, “Zhurou Xianbing 豬肉餡餅 (Pan-Fried Pork Pockets)”, in Chinese Street Food: Small Bites, Classic Recipes…. From the entry xianbing
• Better to be thought chronically shy than to have landladies with duplicate keys sneaking in at night in their bedwear.2008, Ken Follett, Eye of the Needle. From the entry bedwear
• Pulling your trenchcoat up around your bumfluffed cheeks and sneaking past the bouncers for a crafty pint of Best on Deansgate.2008 -, Stuart Maconie, Pies and Prejudice: In search of the North, →ISBN, page 100. From the entry bumfluffed
• You can power game Bluff and Diplomacy, or sneaking and hiding, or knowledge and information -- all kinds of things, really.2006, Jason Nelson-Brown, Save My Game: Secrecy and Favoritism Redux, Wizards of the Coast, Incorporated, page 1. From the entry ultravicious
• Came sneaking upstairs in his stockinged feet."1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 82. From the entry stockinged
• At school, these girls stood around on the edge of the playground wearing black leather jackets, sneaking cigarettes, and joning on each other.1996, Connie Briscoe, Big Girls Don't Cry, New York, N.Y.: HarperCollins Publishers, →ISBN, page 17. From the entry jone
• "If there's any, giving in charge here I'll give you in charge for sneaking my beer, you slop-bellied old souse!" exclaimed Peter.1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 187. From the entry souse
• Some skunk of a Sooner, sneaking in ahead of the Run, had set the blaze to keep the Boomers off, saving the land for himself.1930, Edna Ferber, Cimarron, page 27. From the entry sooner
• One way the Alpha variant became more transmissible was by getting better at sneaking past the intruder alarm - called the interferon response - inside our body's cells.2021 June 12, James Gallagher, “Covid: Is there a limit to how much worse variants can get?”, in BBC News, archived from the original on…. From the entry Alpha variant
• The stuplime always works in this way, playing on the viewer's patience, sneaking in arguments about larger systems through its strategic deployment of confusion and boredom.2019, David McAvoy, “'Is It About the Bunny? No, It's Not About the Bunny': David Lynch's Fandom and Trolling of Peak TV Audiences”, in…. From the entry stuplime
• The fame and money brought in by Only in America meant no more name changes, no need to kite checks, and no sneaking past the landlord.2015, Kimberly Marlowe Hartnett, “Scandal and Resurrection”, in Carolina Israelite: How Harry Golden Made Us Care about Jews, the South…. From the entry kite
• Welsh nerves continued to jangle as Blake let a long ball bounce over his head and only Wayne Hennessey's swift advance from his line prevented Mirko Vucinic sneaking in.2011 September 2, “Wales 2-1 Montenegro”, in BBC. From the entry sneak in
• He justified the “necessary lie” and was a sneaking regarder of Machiavelli and Hobbes; he agreed with Cicero’s view that “we must dissemble if we would live in the world”.2017 April, Tadhg Foley, “A Bit Of Stick”, in Dublin Review of Books. From the entry sneaking regarder
• My memory leaves me with a constant and deep burning, my eyes stinging and red from short sprinkles of tears which have been sneaking up on me for days now.1979 December 1, Ellen Brook Davis, “David Brill — In Memoriam”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 19, page 5. From the entry sprinkle

Meaning of sneaking

1. noun The act of one who sneaks.
2. adjective Secret or underhand; not openly avowed.

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How do you use sneaking in a sentence?

Sneaking is used as a noun and adjective. For example: “They hooked English, sneaking out behind the school and smoking cigarettes.”

What is a short sentence with sneaking?

“Came sneaking upstairs in his stockinged feet."”

What does sneaking mean?

Sneaking means the act of one who sneaks.