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Example sentences for "snickering"

Lexicographically close words:
snells; snick; snicked; snicker; snickered; snickers; snide; sniff; sniffed; sniffing
  1. What a fortnight that was at "Meadowbrook!

  2. He began to show his big teeth, and that nervous snickering "tick" twitched his upper lip.

  3. I'll be very glad to explain it some day," he said; but there was no mirth in his voice or eyes, only the snickering lip wrinkling the pallor.

  4. And I've made you unlace me, Captain, when you thought I was croaking, and it was all I could do to keep from snickering in your face.

  5. His head was throbbing painfully; the continued snickering all round him and Westby’s increasing confidence and fluency grated on his nerves.

  6. Westby stopped to turn a surprised, questioning look upon the snickering class.

  7. Even Elihu Titus was sent about his business when he came to observe; threatened with an instant place in the ranks of the unemployed if he so much as breathed of the secret lessons to a town now said to be composed of snickering busybodies.

  8. I tried it first with the wooden bludgeons, and couldn't ever make the little round lawns under seven or eight--parties snickering their fool heads off at me.

  9. It was about daylight down as I was passing by the kitchen; but hearing a sort of snickering inside, I slipped up and peeped into the window, just out of curiosity.

  10. The members all stared right at us, and made a kind of snickering cluck, cluck, cluck, that seemed to run whistling over the whole house.

  11. Mr. Brown and Bunker Blue took their places on the front seat, and once more the auto started off, and this time Bunny Brown and his Sister Sue did not have to stuff their fists in their mouths to keep from snickering and giggling.

  12. And back in the auto, under some blankets in the bunks, sounded two snickering noises.

  13. He heard a child snickering as he came back from an unsuccessful search.

  14. When he came out to the party again, he heard the children snickering and whispering among themselves.

  15. There are those snickering squirrels, for instance!

  16. Pedro could not keep from snickering when he heard that the choice had fallen on him to be clown in the play.

  17. Juan kept snickering every time I happened to look at him while Pedro was delivering his oration.

  18. Boston seemed to think that was funny, and took to snickering sort of superior.

  19. As he stretched himself again, a sudden barking and snickering came from a giant spruce on the hill just above.


  20. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "snickering" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    banter; bantering; derisive; flippancy; flippant; fooling; grinning; hissing; jeering; joshing; kidding; laughter; leering; levity; mockery; mocking; panning; quizzical; railing; raillery; ridiculing; roasting; scoffing; smart; smirking; sneering; taunting; teasing; twitting