How to use sneer in a sentence

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• He grinned a cruel sneer when I begged him to stop.From the entry grin
• He made a sneering comment about their closeness.From the entry sneering
• The reprobate criminal sneered at me.From the entry reprobate
• He was disdainful of those he thought of as the little people. He openly sneered at them. They mocked him behind his back.From the entry disdainful
• I’M GONNA FART—sneered as he shoved past her to join their classmates.2021, Shannon Messenger, chapter 1, in Keeper of Lost Cities, page 7. From the entry -o-saurus
• Phil, the lead guitarist, would have a sneer on his face worthy of Severus Snape.2017, Eva Scott, Red Dust Runaway, Escape Publishing. From the entry Severus Snape
• “What do you mean, don't kill me?” Major Healy said, sneering.2016, Richard Sapir, Warren Murphy, The Wrong Stuff, →ISBN. From the entry yoink
• A rebel is a gleaming individual in tight Levi’s, a sneering and pretty face.2013, Rachel Kushner, chapter 11, in The Flamethrowers, New York: Scribner, page 163. From the entry wet dream
• We in the 'jects, baby, a project for rejects," Jasmine sneers.2010, Carol Taylor, The Ex Chronicles, New York N.Y.: Plume, →ISBN, page 200. From the entry jects
• “I wanna see knife-cuttin’, slice-cuttin’, choppin’, blowin’ up,” he says, with a sneer.2007, Jesse Fox Mayshark, Post-Pop Cinema, page 21. From the entry choppin'
• " Larry sneered, kicking sideways and giving Jamie a painful thrust in the leg.1986, Elaine Bissell, The Kendall Women, page 112. From the entry huggie
• Clipped to its leg was this German sneer: "Herewith your message pigeon is returned.1944 February 7, “World Battlefronts: Men at War—The Bird”, in Time. From the entry carrier pigeon
• “And she placed a yellow snake at your feet!” sneered Gutchlug.1919 July, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “The Yezidee: The Slayer of Souls – I”, in Hearst’s, volume XXXVI, number 1, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry snow-leopardess
• The black cop turned his mouth into a sneer.2015, Laureen Cantwell, Leonard Gill, Memphis Noir, Akashic Books, →ISBN, page 278. From the entry skinfolk
• When Clayton Stern entered the Hall of Mirrors he saw a number of himselves sneering back at him.2014, Doug Sacrison, The Gelatin Coast, →ISBN, page 348. From the entry himselves
• I thought I caught him sneering at Kevin and me, in our crufty pants and shoes, but I couldn't be sure.2013, Richard Bowker, The Portal (An Alternative History Novel), page 1614174636. From the entry crufty
• "Oh, would you, cleversticks?" her sister sneered.2012, Compton MacKenzie, Rich Relatives, page 167. From the entry cleversticks
• Giant Kurt Stregner pauses, sneers as he eyelocks Joe.2012, Iceberg Slim, Doom Fox. From the entry eyelock
• "Girls," Peter sneered, "all they ever want is some good-looking, hen peck, rich guy who will do anything for them.2012, Reggie Stroud, Broken Swan, page 20. From the entry hen peck
• He had made them laugh and kissed their rings and they in return had sneered at him behind his back.2011, Mark Mills, chapter 9, in House of the Hanged, London: HarperCollins, →ISBN; House of the Hunted: A Novel, 1st U.S. edition, New…. From the entry kiss someone's ring
• A jeansed mensch comes to the door, knocks once then opens it, sneers his chaw to a windowside spittoon.2010, Joshua Cohen, Witz, Dalkey Archive Press, page 495. From the entry jeansed
• What would the Nation do when the loathsome press of Europe would sneer at us as an elephantless people?2008, Paul Chambers, Jumbo: This Being the True Story of the Greatest Elephant in the World, Hanover, New Hampshire: Steerforth Press…. From the entry elephantless
• By contrast, it is remarkable how many religious labels started life as a sneer: the Reformation was full of angry words.2003, Diarmaid MacCulloch, The Reformation: A History, Penguin, →ISBN, page xviii-xix. From the entry catholic
• “And these weirdlings, who are they?” she asked, with as much of a sneer as her trembling lips allowed.2002, Ray Aldridge, Pharaoh Contract. From the entry weirdling
• The Mbaya of the Amazon remove all facial hair, including eyelashes and eyebrows, and sneer at full-browed whites as "ostrich-brothers".2000, Daniel McNeill, The Face: A Natural History, page 198. From the entry facial hair
• "That was on in Glasgow yoinks ago," sneered Bobby.1992, Frank Rodgers, The Drowning Boy, page 21. From the entry yoinks
• "Oh, huggie, huggie, kissie, kissie!" Larry sneered, kicking sideways and giving Jamie a painful thrust in the leg.1986, Elaine Bissell, The Kendall Women, page 112. From the entry kissie
• Soon everybody, not just the Lefraks, was sneering.1980 November 17, Marie Brenner, “Trumping the Town”, in New York Magazine, page 27. From the entry get ink
• The sidecars— sneer if you will, you purists and gastronomic snoots— at Perino's in Wilshire in Los Angeles.1943, Lucius Morris Beebe, Snoot if You Must, D. Appleton-Century Company, Incorporated, page 44. From the entry snoot
• Then, I fear, we will become like the Yankees, at whose money-making activities, acquisitiveness and commercialism we now sneer.1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, chapter XI, in Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC. From the entry acquisitiveness
• There was no sneer upon his thin lips, but, on the contrary, a gray, drawn look of excitement and amazement.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 9, in The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC. From the entry credulity
• To introduce into philosophical discussions a sneer at a creed's antiquity is like introducing a sneer at a lady's age.1908, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, “The Case for the Ephemeral”, in All Things Considered. From the entry caddish
• "Because you are built as absurdly as a jumping-jack," sneered the horse, rolling his knotty eyes in a vicious manner.1904, L. Frank Baum, chapter 13, in The Marvelous Land of Oz. From the entry jumping-jack
• They believe that only those with an appropriate loathing of wokeism and a sneering contempt for consensus can see things for what they really are.2024 March 15, Radley Balko, “The War on the Woke Trumps the Truth for Many Heterodox Thinkers”, in The UnPopulist, archived from the…. From the entry heterodoxist
• The sneers about my gap yah.2022, Nicole Kennedy, After Paris. From the entry gap yah
• Last weekend I was on Facebook taking part in a conversation about dating sites when someone called me a cishet, in a sneering tone.2013, Anonymous letter-writer quoted in Maureen Matthews, "About last night", The Sydney Morning Herald, 6 October 2013. From the entry cishet

Meaning of sneer

1. verb To raise a corner of the upper lip slightly, especially in scorn.
2. verb To utter with a grimace or contemptuous expression; to say sneeringly.
3. noun A facial expression where one slightly raises one corner of the upper lip, generally indicating scorn.

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Questions about sneer in a sentence

How do you use sneer in a sentence?

Sneer is used as a verb and noun. For example: “He grinned a cruel sneer when I begged him to stop.”

What is a short sentence with sneer?

“The reprobate criminal sneered at me.”

What does sneer mean?

Sneer means to raise a corner of the upper lip slightly, especially in scorn.