sneer
verb (used without object)
to smile, laugh, or contort the face in a manner that shows scorn or contempt.
had sneered
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past perfectof sneer.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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“You dare not make war on cotton,” South Carolina senator James Henry Hammond had sneered in 1858.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
In 1967, two years after Dylan had sneered, "Something is happening here/ But you don't know what it is/ Do you, Mr Jones?"
From The Guardian ● Jun. 16, 2012
Webb, as her stuffy father in Dreamboat, had sneered at television as a phenomenon that "encourages people who dwell under the same roof to ignore each other completely."
From Time ● Jan. 8, 2011
And Dick Stokes, the burly M.P. from Ipswich; only last year he had sneered at Attlee's leadership by quoting what he said was a Chinese proverb: "A fish starts rotting at its head."
From Time Magazine Archive
‘They say he swallowed the breath of a ghost,’ the children had sneered.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
