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Example sentences for "sneak"

Lexicographically close words:
snatches; snatching; snatcht; snaw; snawy; sneaked; sneaker; sneakers; sneaking; sneakingly
  1. We can stay just far enough away so they won't get on to us, and maybe the half breed will try to sneak through our line.

  2. And there is a chance that one of them may try to sneak back there for supplies or something, and we will stand a chance of catching one of them," cut in Tex, giving his belt an extra hitch.

  3. He'd insist on having a window wide open, and when she'd sneak back to close it so he wouldn't catch his death of cold he'd get up and court destruction by hoisting it again.

  4. I better sneak round and ask the Chink," said Sandy.

  5. Vida keeps a sharp watch on him, but he bribes people to sneak chocolate creams into his dressing room.

  6. So he talks to Charlie Holzman, the conductor of Number 18, and wants to know would it be possible to sneak this report of Ben's out of the files over at Tekoa.

  7. It was quite natural that Mays should be anxious to learn how his friend came out with the physician, but why should he sneak out into the hall to ask the question?

  8. From a sneak he turned into a bully, and lost no opportunity of teasing and tormenting Bert, who, being much smaller than he, felt compelled to submit, although there were times when he was driven almost to desperation.

  9. I had a stern fellow of noble mind to back me up at all hazard, and seeing what a sneak Hezekiah was, he gave him six dozen out of hand, with my official sanction.

  10. This made William suspicious, and very likely he made up his mind to sneak in, and get a night-view of the reptiles.

  11. Are you going to sneak about this to your brother?

  12. That for him, the black sneak of a Protestant!

  13. It would be a fine thing for you, no doubt, if you could sneak round her behind my back!

  14. I'll gladly give five hundred dollars to land this sneak behind the bars.

  15. Guess we'd best go back 'n' take a sneak round behind the ledge.

  16. You know what the ensign said about spies; well, if that fellow Barton isn't up to some crooked work, why should he sneak off like this and be so anxious to hide from us when we happen along accidentally?

  17. I'd swear I saw a shadowy thing sneak away from us across the water.

  18. Tom, "that you didn't sneak out of here a while ago, and go to one of the rooms on the next floor?

  19. Say, why can't we sneak up on 'em, and knock about six on the head?

  20. Are you going to sneak away and let these curs hang him?

  21. Break in the back door and sneak up behind on those fellows.

  22. His business now was to sneak out unheard, at break of day, to an obscure and revolting death.

  23. Here he's managed to sneak on to the personal staff of the marshal.

  24. If it is only a sneak thief, he'll take a jump in the river the minute he knows we are aware of his presence on the deck.

  25. They are murderers, housebreakers and sneak thieves of the most desperate kind.

  26. I'm going to make a sneak up to that fire and find out what those men are talking about.

  27. The boy gathered from this comment that he was regarded as a sneak thief, and tried more than once to explain, but the negro kept on talking to himself and paid no attention to the words of his prisoner.

  28. Now," thought the boy, "shall I give it up, or shall I sneak on board the boat and see what I can learn of this man who poses as a river pirate one day and as a gentleman of great respectability the next?

  29. We'll just sneak off after breakfast and be back in an hour.

  30. It was the simplest thing in the world to sneak out and back without being observed, and we both knew it.

  31. Somebody managed to sneak a few of the dormant spores lying around outside the dome into him.

  32. And if he's told you what I have told him in confidence he's more of a sneak than I've already found him out to be.

  33. I—I ain’t such a sneak as that cursed Jacob Gray.

  34. Upon my faith,” said he with the gun, “I should have enjoyed seeing you sneak off—I really should.

  35. He’s a sort o’ sneak as goes arter everybody’s business but his own.

  36. The snob and the sneak are closely allied, Captain, and men of that stamp have been known to do some pretty ugly things to uphold their pinchbeck dignity, and to keep the tinsel of the present over the cheap gingerbread of the past.

  37. I'll sneak over and put 'em round the door as soon as you've gone in.

  38. Secondly, if the blighter didn't try to sneak off .

  39. The very next morning they took several sneak punches at the civilized world.

  40. Chances are, by the time Bostworth could induce Far East High Command to swing into action the Japs might be swinging their sneak haymaker.

  41. I am no sneak and traitor, and not for ten thousand dollars--not for a hundred thousand dollars--not to save my very life would I do such a dastardly thing!

  42. Don't let anybody in here till I have fixed this sneak as I will fix Merriwell when I get at him!

  43. You put yourself in a bad light by calling a man a sneak and then refusing to tell why you call him that," said Frank.

  44. Whoever the sneak was, he'll have to buy a new pair.

  45. Well, we've given them quite a lot of time to get over any suspicion of us, let's see if we can sneak away from them.

  46. Therefore it looks as though our best bet is to hide now, and try to sneak away on them after a while--direct methods won't work.

  47. He'll sneak back into position as soon as he can calculate his results, and pretend he's always been there.

  48. Many sneak robberies were formerly committed in medium-sized towns on circus days, while most of the employes were at windows or doors watching the circus parade.

  49. I've filled you up and lodged you, and now you want to play the sneak on me.

  50. The bank sneak is the cleverest of crooks, and as bold and daring as any of them.

  51. The Bertillon photographs facilitate the identification of the sneak and the bankers' and jewelers' organization put up the money with which to pursue him remorselessly, and soon catch him.

  52. During the past ten years not more than five good bank sneak games have been pulled off, while there has been a similar reduction in the raids on jewelry shops.

  53. Unless it will be the way that we shall sneak up behind the rah-rah crowd and square matters!

  54. You're too good a fellow to play the sneak with us.

  55. Being the means of getting large crowds of people together, it was naturally followed up or accompanied by as depraved a set of sneak thieves and pickpockets as ever traveled in the shadow of any circus.


  56. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sneak" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    couch; cower; crawl; creek; creep; cringe; crouch; devil; glide; grovel; inch; knave; lurk; mystical; pad; poltroon; prowl; quail; rapscallion; rascal; recreant; rogue; run; scalawag; scamp; scoundrel; scramble; secret; shadow; shyster; sidle; skulk; slink; slither; snake; sneak; stalk; steal; stealthy; talebearer; tiptoe; villain; worm