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Example sentences for "snub"

Lexicographically close words:
snowshoes; snowslide; snowstorm; snowstorms; snowy; snubbed; snubbing; snubs; snuck; snuff
  1. Aline continued to snub him so pertinaciously and persistently that Mme.

  2. It was partly this system of flattery, which Aline resented on principle, that induced her occasionally to snub the professor, and partly the fact that she had reason to suspect his dreams of married bliss centred upon herself.

  3. Who would think that she could spit fire, or snub her neighbors, or "boss" it, even over servants?

  4. Thinking it time the Princess awoke, Trot leaned over and gave her snub nose a good tweak, and at once Indigo sprang out of her bed and rushed into the chamber of Cobalt, which adjoined her own.

  5. Is not a snub nose the highest mark of female beauty?

  6. In this favored island, which is the Center of the Universe, a snub nose is an evidence of high breeding which any lady would be proud to possess.

  7. There were many who overheard, and who used their fans and their napkins to hide their laughter at the very just snub Mrs. Grafton had received.

  8. Not that she gave any of them any real cause to snub her.

  9. Just so I think her the sweetest of them all, because she feels so easily; but her sisters do snub her a little.

  10. That same morning, a little girl, in a brown hat and blue dress, with a round face and snub nose, went and bought it for her mother.

  11. You've kept close to that starched-up Englishwoman all day, and now you snub me.

  12. Amy, as a return snub for the "samphire" correction.

  13. Mr. Gotobed throughout the dinner had the best of the conversation, though Lady Augustus had power enough to snub him on more than one occasion.

  14. He meant to snub me, by intimating of how slight account I am in his estimation.

  15. It may be remarked that our angry maiden's mind dwelt rather upon the snub she had inflicted on Miss Verity, than upon the extensive compliment she had paid, and the challenge she had delivered, to Carteret.

  16. Her snub duly delivered, and she secure it had gone home, Damaris unbent, graciously communicative as never before.

  17. He was not the man to give a woman more than one opportunity to snub him.

  18. She seemed to take a malicious pleasure in complimenting him glibly, which is the last snub to an artist.

  19. Now I know that so long as we have social inequality we shall have snobs; we shall have men who bully and truckle, and women who snub and crawl.

  20. And that's the reason you snub him, is it?

  21. But why should one snub and snap at the poor woman?

  22. He was so pathetically diffident it was impossible to snub him, and she had no desire to snub him.

  23. But that Fairfield had himself well in hand he would have openly resented the snub inflicted on him.

  24. The detective received the snub with an amiable smile.

  25. I never heard that it was considered high breeding and fine manners to snub your inferiors--if they are your inferiors.

  26. You have to snub them," said Frances, "if they don't know manners themselves.

  27. He is regarding her fixedly; but she, after that first swift glance, has turned her attention upon the baby on her knee, and is seemingly lost in admiration of its little snub nose.

  28. The doctor certainly did not snub his son, for he allowed him to go over to London when he was twenty-two years of age, in order that he might read with an English barrister.

  29. But Rodber called him back and spoke pleasantly, so that Michael forgot the snub and wandered for the rest of the dinner-hour in Rodber's wake, with aching nose, but with a heart beating in admiration and affection.

  30. Stella wrote to me from Germany and I hear from Frau Weingardt that everybody prophesies a triumphant career for her, so don't snub her when she comes back for her holidays in the autumn.

  31. Michael remembered Miss Carthew's admonition not to snub Stella, but he could not help feeling that Miss Carthew herself would have disapproved of this open vanity.

  32. Bartley made some indirect approaches to Kinney for sympathy in the snub which he had received, and which rankled in his mind with unabated keenness.

  33. Very well," returned Atherton, with the effect of being a little snubbed, but resolved to take his snub professionally.

  34. I haven't forgotten the little snub Mrs. Macallister gave me, and you'll see me pay her off.

  35. How I do detest to see women snub their husbands and fathers!

  36. Snub Phil violently in his presence, and confide to her in secret that his cough sounds consumptive!

  37. She was so devoted to Madge, so tempted to applaud all that she said and did, that as a pure matter of conscience she felt bound to snub her now and then, just to show her impartiality!

  38. Evil is mighty, but the good must eventually prevail," he observed, impertinently cocking his snub nose toward heaven.

  39. Now I did feel a strong desire to lay hands on this very Riley and pull out his snub nose for him; but I forbore to say so, and simply shook my head despondently.

  40. There was also the desire to snub Belinda Scott; and lastly, but not least, there was the desire to put her knife into any giddy young girl who had thrown her net over the Warden.

  41. Robinson Junior was holding open the door, his snub nose well in the air, his cheeks reddened by the chill autumn wind.

  42. For if any rule at all can be laid down in a matter which, for men collectively, is notoriously beyond regulation, it is that to snub a petted man, and to pet a snubbed man, is the way to win in suits of both kinds.

  43. It was rather a favourite habit of hers to make much of Cytherea when they were out, and snub her for it afterwards when they got home.

  44. Now Cytherea all at once broke into a blush at the consciousness of a great snub she had been guilty of in her eagerness to explain herself.

  45. He had light brown hair, a snub nose, very round face, and a peculiar habit of reducing his eyes to straight lines when he looked narrowly at anything.

  46. The latest heir of the Reymingtounes of Aldborough was not of the stuff to court a snub or endure it.

  47. Long he gazed in front of him, still smarting under that stinging snub that had, at the same time, wounded him sorely and enraged him.

  48. A semi-swell he may be, but he may be a mere clerk, And he's an interloper, and to snub him is a lark.


  49. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "snub" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
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