Example Sentences

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They are sneering at the awkwardness of a man who has abandoned self-awareness.

From Washington Post • Oct. 22, 2022

You don’t feel the actors are sneering at the dog owners in Best in Show, or the folk singers in A Mighty Wind.

From The Guardian • Feb. 8, 2021

This time around critics are sneering at Governor Brown’s $15 billion plan to bore a pair of 30-mile tunnels east of Sacramento to channel Sierra Nevada runoff to critical agricultural land.

From BusinessWeek • Mar. 6, 2014

And now young poets are sneering at us?”

From New York Times • Jul. 19, 2010

How can they carry themselves so calmly, when their contemporaries are sneering round them?

From The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII: No. 356, October 23, 1886. by Various