sniggered in a sentence
Examples
- When Vale e Azevedo went to the changing rooms after the game to remonstrate with the players, Harkness sniggered and ridiculed the president behind his back, according to O Jogo which cited unidentified sources at the Lisbon club.
- Once, we might have sniggered at demure female trappings like Peter Pan-collared blouses in pin-tucked organza or prints that looked like a scrambled toile, but, underpinned with an exposed slip or mixed with a sin-trap stiletto in cheesy yellow, they looked impudently right now.
- The other shows Bush laughing awkwardly when he was asked who's to blame for rising health insurance costs, and saying, " Gosh, I sure hope it's not the administration . " His laughter is edited into a repetitive echo that makes it sound as if he sniggered.
- Some men would have sniggered at the caricature on first seeing it, but the main purpose of the caricature was to hold up a kind of distorted mirror to the society of its time ( like most caricatures ), and not to directly advocate for or endorse domestic violence or spousal rape.
- The " Glasgow Herald " sniggered at the small number of radicals encountered, but worried that " the conspiracy appears to be more extensive than almost anyone imagined . . . radical principles are too widely spread and too deeply rooted to vanish without some explosion and the sooner it takes place the better ."
- The general response was " as the " Westminster Review " put it, that Gosse's theory was'too monstrous for belief .'" Even his friend, the novelist Charles Kingsley, wrote that he had read " no other book which so staggered and puzzled " him, that he could not believe that God had " written on the rocks one enormous and superfluous lie for all mankind . " Journalists later sniggered that God had apparently hidden fossils in the rocks to tempt geologists to infidelity.
- At the kommandantur everything had been rummaged : the cans had all been punctured or opened, the chocolate broken into little pieces, the sausages cut lengthwise [ & ] I saw them mixing in the same mess kit, or in the same container, meat, fish, vegetables, prunes, biscuits, pastries, jam [ & ] What deplorable waste; it s a crime against humanity . [ & ] Our indignation could be read in our eyes; these sons of dogs, or rather of wolves, sniggered with joy at it.