Example Sentences

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Sure, it’s the same country that has sneered at you for most of the past decade, but you must understand that it was only banter.

From The Guardian • Sep. 28, 2020

An older demographic has sneered at influencers, as they did with the previous decade’s reality TV stars, suggesting they are not “real” celebrities.

From The Guardian • Nov. 23, 2019

But if Sarkozy himself has sneered at Trévidic's inquiry as "ridiculous, grotesque", the 45-year old is not alone in viewing the kickback revenge theory as plausible.

From Time • Jul. 21, 2011

Mr. Ruskin has sneered at Bella as ‘an amiable governess who, for the general encouragement of virtue in governesses, is rewarded by marrying a lord.’

From By-ways in Book-land Short Essays on Literary Subjects by Adams, William Davenport

It has sneered at our sufferings, denied the devotion, the courage, the abnegation Paris has shown during the siege, hooted her best-loved representatives, Garibaldi and Victor Hugo.

From History of the Commune of 1871 by Lissagary, P.