How to Use sneer in a Sentence

sneer

1 of 2 verb

• Ok, go ahead and sneer at my bus through the windshield of your Range Rollover.
  — David H Freedman, Discover Magazine, 30 Apr. 2012
• The scares are genuine, and the characters aren't meant to be sneered at.
  — Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader, 18 Apr. 2018
• Amazing that some of the online commenters sneer at the idea.
  — Ellen Byron, WSJ, 15 Jan. 2019
• Which means Chuck will live to sneer again in flashbacks—fire or no fire.
  — Hillary Busis, VanityFair.com, 20 June 2017
• Smith buries the 3-pointer with 41 seconds left and then sneers at the Maryland fans in the front row.
  — Gregg Doyel, The Indianapolis Star, 3 Jan. 2024
• The problem is the man sneering on the airplane and the tiny restaurant chair that leaves your thighs black and blue.
  — Katy Waldman, Slate Magazine, 26 June 2017
• The bug didn't get a starring role in the Herbie the Love Bug movies because of its low, sneering stance.
  — Andrew Moseman, Popular Mechanics, 13 Sep. 2018
• Others will simply sneer and hurl insults at the crowd.
  — Nell Haynes, The Conversation, 5 July 2019
• But Alonso rallied with two homers in the final 15 seconds to hit 14 as the Cleveland crowd sneered.
  — Tom Withers, Houston Chronicle, 8 July 2019
• When his son is killed by one of his own men (a sneering Tom Hardy), Glass goes on a life or death journey of revenge.
  — Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 29 Aug. 2023
• Widely known and loved, the painting is even admired by critics who sneer at the rest of his homey oeuvre.
  — Terry Teachout, WSJ, 26 July 2017
• In the next open tab, judgments about coarseness and its effect on the rest of society are openly sneered at.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 13 Feb. 2018
• Eat your heart out, Mike Pence, and anyone else predisposed to sneering at his good, gay life.
  — Jerry Brewer, chicagotribune.com, 12 Feb. 2018
• People sneered the title of that book on the 1968 Cowboys yearly as the talented Cowboys failed in the playoffs.
  — David J. Neal, miamiherald, 30 Jan. 2018
• Then first-year Tulane coach Bob Toledo sneered at the argument.
  — Larry Holder, NOLA.com, 28 Feb. 2018
• By the end of the first chapter, a small group of nefarious agents, led by the sneering Stuart (Neil Maskell), have taken control of the plane.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 June 2023
• There was sneering condescension, of course, but there were also some honest attempts to track the roots of the look.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2023
• Scotch die-hards may sneer at American single-malt whiskey.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 18 Apr. 2023
• And these same folks sneer at him now, now that he is exposed to be the same black beast that always was in the collective imagination.
  — Angela Helm, The Root, 16 July 2017
• Within Rome’s elite the basic values of existence are not sneered at.
  — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 7 Sep. 2023
• Fans of analytics sneer at the thought of Rudy Gay being on their basketball team.
  — Jason Jones, sacbee.com, 15 June 2017
• Bell sneers at Hansen, who's dressed like a frog, before throwing him into a coffee table.
  — Evelyn Wang, Allure, 27 Oct. 2017
• Nelemans maintains that his company has developed a use case all its own, one that the big boys would sneer at.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 4 Jan. 2018
• Democrats sneered him, went to war against him, assassinated him.
  — Fox News, 5 Aug. 2018
• The latter element is headed by Lazarus (Taylor James), a sneering brute who once took out a Beekeeper and lost a leg in the process.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Jan. 2024
• Connoisseurs may sneer at some of the wine selections, or take issue with the ornate glassware employed at the White House.
  — New York Times, 25 Nov. 2020
• Izzi is given almost nothing to do except show up, sneer a few threats, and then disappear.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 5 Mar. 2021
• Why did these corporations sneer at this law that was supposed to rein in their excesses?
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 6 Oct. 2022
• For the new club kids, money is beside the point—at best an irrelevance, and at worst a vulgar accessory to sneer at.
  — H.w. Vail, Vanities, 20 Dec. 2017
• In an unbuttoned age, people tend to sneer at ceremony, but don’t knock it.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 4 June 2019

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sneer

2 of 2 noun

• She looked at me with a sneer of disgust.
• The novel elicited sneers from the critics.
• But the sneer withers away; the chuckle turns to dust in the throat.
  — Kevin Baker, The New Republic, 17 May 2018
• Looks matter with rock, all the way back to Elvis’s sneer and Chuck Berry’s duck walk.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2019
• In the Kool-Aid exchange, Trump holds forth in a mocking tone, with a hint of a sneer.
  — Elahe Izadi, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2022
• People of good will shouldn’t pretend that a sneer is a smile.
  — New York Times, 29 Mar. 2022
• Your son covers the fine by flipping you two pennies and sneers: Keep the change.
  — Gregg Doyel, USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2017
• Bass is the type of leader who gets things done with a smile rather than a sneer or a threatening stare.
  — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 17 Nov. 2022
• Eric Schneller's mouth is curved into a pronounced sneer, with his nose scrunched up and rage in his eyes.
  — Domenica Bongiovanni, Indianapolis Star, 7 May 2018
• To be read through a monocle and with a sinister sneer.
  — New York Times, 24 Oct. 2017
• The same boys who’d sneer and snicker should they be forced to take my hand during music class chose me first to be on their teams in P.E. class.
  — Julia Sullivan, SELF, 26 Oct. 2017
• Rick, of course—gets to deliver his scumbag line, with a sneer on his scumbag face.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 26 July 2019
• The new styling is essentially S550 with less fillip and more sneer.
  — Sam Smith, Car and Driver, 25 Aug. 2023
• Recall, too, the media sneers at anyone who questioned the provenance of the warrants.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 23 Jan. 2020
• This is a guy who returns from his tearful apology tour with a sneer.
  — Matt Miller, Esquire, 9 Feb. 2018
• His face was almost blank; no smile, no sneer, maybe just a hint of satisfaction.
  — Greg Bishop, SI.com, 14 Jan. 2018
• Jill herself, on the other hand, is a far less curdled creation, devoid of sneers.
  — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2017
• Yet there is a part of him that sees beyond his immediate feelings and sneers at them.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2020
• My lips were curdled into a sneer the whole time that ending unfolded.
  — Rose Maura Lorre, Vulture, 19 Feb. 2021
• There’s always something to be said for filtering the timeless charm of ‘60s girl-group music through the snarl and sneer of classic punk.
  — Ed Masley, azcentral, 15 June 2018
• The tendency for players to challenge defenders one-on-one or take high-risk shots used to be called hero ball, and it was said with a sneer.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
• And noticing that poor Evan has been unable to find anyone to sign the cast on his broken arm, Connor scrawls his name across it with a mocking sneer.
  — Charles Isherwood, New York Times, 1 May 2016
• Her catcher’s mitt face is twisted in a permanent sneer.
  — Reid McCarter, Wired, 19 Nov. 2020
• Here and there, one yearns for the bass-heavy quake of Ms. Eilish’s music, or Lorde’s ingratiating sneer.
  — Mark Richardson, WSJ, 24 May 2021
• The band continues to balance sharp smarts with a sonic hint of slacker slouch and just the right calibration on sneer.
  — John Adamian, courant.com, 28 Apr. 2018
• Taking on Petty’s croon, frontman Deryck Whibley subdues his usual sneer just enough to sell the song.
  — Chris Payne, Billboard, 3 Oct. 2017
• But as Greer and Faith’s relationship takes on a new dimension, the skeptical sneer of the elder meets the righteous judgment of the younger.
  — Lena Dunham, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2018
• The accident left him with a deep gouge curving from the middle of his chin up through the edge of his lips, twisting his mouth into a slight but permanent sneer.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2019
• Over the two years since that episode, I have been subjected to sneers, head-shaking, and dirty looks (by his friends) and a nasty comment from their family member.
  — Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 2 June 2020
• In a whiplash pivot, the same Popular Mechanics story that starts with the breathless headline ends with a sneer.
  — Corey S Powell, Discover Magazine, 6 Aug. 2014

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