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How to use sneeze in a sentence

37 example sentences · verb, noun

Sneeze means to expel air as a reflex induced by an irritation in the nose. Example: “To avoid passing on your illness, you should sneeze into your sleeve.”

Examples of sneeze by meaning

verbTo expel air as a reflex induced by an irritation in the nose.

  • To avoid passing on your illness, you should sneeze into your sleeve.

verbTo expel or displace (air, snot, etc) from the nose or mouth by the process above.

  • Lily shook her head violently and sneezed a large blue-bottle fly from where that insect had perched itself on the tip of her nose.1924, Hugh Wiley, The Prowler, page 88
  • When I crossed the road, I sneezed a big achoo!2010, Gunleen Deol, Sleepover Disaster, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 15
  • I sneezed a big sneeze.2013, Sarah Hines-Stephens, Jane B. Mason, A Dog and His Girl Mysteries #2: Dead Man's Best Friend, Scholastic Inc., →ISBN

nounAn act of sneezing.

  • Jared's hay fever gives him terrible sneezes.

More sentences with sneeze

  • Their music may not be worthy of radio time, but it's nothing to sneeze at.From the entry nothing to sneeze at
  • Danny has been having the sniffles and the sneezes all week.From the entry sniffles
  • The doctor told that his coughing and sneezing was the symptom of standing for too long in the rain.From the entry symptom
  • He sneezed into his handkerchief during the meeting.From the entry handkerchief
  • What was that? It sounded like a really loud sneeze.From the entry loud
  • My nose tickles, and I'm going to sneeze!From the entry tickle
  • He gave away his hiding place when he accidentally sneezed.From the entry give away
  • Alarmingly, he went into a severe sneezing fit.From the entry alarmingly
  • He went into an alarmingly severe sneezing fit.From the entry alarmingly
  • The urge to clear my throat was suppressible, but the urge to sneeze wasn't, and so I made a large noise in the middle of the solo.From the entry suppressible
  • A loud hock was 4 and a loud sneeze or spit indicated 5.2019 March 26, Alvin Townley, Captured: An American Prisoner of War in North Vietnam (Scholastic Focus), Scholastic Inc., →ISBN. From the entry hock
  • I fought a sneeze as Max took my hand and led me into the chapel.2014, Ann Aguirre, The Shape of My Heart, page 42. From the entry fight
  • King was later said to have been within a sneeze or a jolt of extinction.2014 January 20, Michael Daly, “The Black and White Men Who Saved Martin Luther King’s Life”, in The Daily Beast, archived from the…. From the entry life-saving
  • Use a closed fist or assume the Dracula sneeze pose to temper germ transmission.2011, Phineas Mollod, Jason Tesauro, The Modern Gentleman, 2nd Edition: A Guide to Essential Manners, Savvy, and Vice, Ten Speed Press…. From the entry Dracula sneeze
  • A catalogue of ancient sneezes and sneeze-interpretation (ptarmoscopy) is also provided.2005, Robert J. Rabel, Approaches to Homer, Ancient and Modern, page xiii. From the entry ptarmoscopy
  • If the air smelled even faintly of dog, Lionel coughed, wheezed and sneezed.2001, Joyce Carol Oates, Middle Age: A Romance (Fourth Estate, paperback edition, 443). From the entry wheeze
  • An unstimulated and unsneezing organism may be disposed to sneeze anyway.1987, Michael E. Levin, Feminism and Freedom. From the entry unsneezing
  • "Of a sneeze?" Callie asked, her grinning face appearing in the doorway.1978, Redbook: The Magazine for Young Adults - Volume 151 - Page 117. From the entry snough
  • "You almost died of a sneeze?" "It was a cough too," Gary explained.1978, Redbook: The Magazine for Young Adults - Volume 151 - Page 117. From the entry snough
  • Avery sat on the porch every night until nine o’clock and sneezed.1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC. From the entry collection plate
  • That American fortune was not to be sneezed at, nor was its possessor a whit less attractive.1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 109. From the entry whit
  • The draft-drawn smoke willowed down through the hole and across my face, but I didn’t worry about coughing or sneezing.2013, Dean Koontz, Wilderness, Bantam Books. From the entry willow
  • In New York and Chicago, laws were passed making it illegal to sneeze or cough in public without using a handkerchief.2002, Joy Hakim, War, Peace, and All that Jazz, page 22. From the entry cougher
  • Its name is Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and it sallies forth on spumes of sputum each time an infected inmate coughs or sneezes.2001 January 15, David Bjerklie et al., “Your A to Z Guide to the Year in Medicine”, in Time. From the entry louse-ridden
  • She developed severe arthritislike pains in her knees, shoulders, and back, and she couldn't stop sneezing in the halls and classrooms.1988 January 22, Robert McClory, “The Yeast of Our Problems”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry arthritislike
  • Never do I have colds — but I got the epizootics(?) and sneezed my head off — twenty three times yesterday.1977, Samuel M. Steward, editor, Dear Sammy: Letters from Getrude Stein and Alice Toklas, page 237. From the entry epizootic
  • As of today, the rationale for deploying the distancing measure in public is that COVID-19 spreads through means such as touching, coughing and sneezing.2021 January 24, Kristine Sørensen et al., “Rebranding social distancing to physical distancing: calling for a change in the health…. From the entry distancing
  • Reluctantly Raj used his fingernail to prise away the bogie he had long since sneezed up there and popped it in his mouth.2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN. From the entry bogie
  • Wang also encouraged the use of the "Dracula sneeze," or sneezing into the crease of your elbow as you bring your arm to your face.2009 September 9, Patrick Cowles, “H1N1 plagues campuses”, in The Daily Titan, volume 85, number 4, California State University…. From the entry Dracula sneeze
  • Indeed Erskine never opened his mouth, in Watt's presence, except to eat, or belch, or cough, or keck, or muse, or sigh, or sing, or sneeze.1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC. From the entry keck
  • The remuneration was not something to be sneeze at, but I had to remain cheerful and composed even in the face of a hostile dean, spoiled students and termagant parents.2025 September 4, Danton Remoto, “What ifs in one’s life”, in The Manila Times, retrieved 07 Sep 2025. From the entry termagant
  • The elf knocks three times, coughs and knocks once more, followed by a snart – a tricky and highly dangerous procedure where you sneeze and fart at the same time!2020 November 1, Benjamin G Hewett, Paddy Muldoon, The Amazing Lockdown Adventure (The Crystal Chronicles), Penguin Random House South…. From the entry snart

Meaning of sneeze

  1. verb To expel air as a reflex induced by an irritation in the nose.
  2. verb To expel air as if the nose were irritated.
  3. verb To expel or displace (air, snot, etc) from the nose or mouth by the process above.

Full definition of sneeze

Questions about sneeze in a sentence

How do you use sneeze in a sentence?
Sneeze is used as a verb and noun. For example: “To avoid passing on your illness, you should sneeze into your sleeve.”
What is a short sentence with sneeze?
“I sneezed a big sneeze.”
What does sneeze mean?
Sneeze means to expel air as a reflex induced by an irritation in the nose.

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