Example Sentences

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He spent a lot of time snivelling in a swell of self-pity and heightened emotion.

From The Guardian • Sep. 28, 2018

His face is peppered with sand and the dank, snivelling sky has left his sweatshirt decidedly damp and clammy.

From BBC • Jan. 29, 2018

The funny thing is, they're probably looking at him, thinking: who is this horrid, snivelling little worm of a man they've sent?

From The Guardian • Jun. 2, 2012

She hated how the cops—both cops—were staring at her, like they’d never seen anything so sad or so pathetic before, like she was some snivelling little mangy dog.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 22, 2010

But to himself he said when he had let the lad go snivelling home, “We must get back to the land.”

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck