scoff

Example Sentences

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When I don’t answer, she scoffs again before joining her friends on the dance floor.

From Literature

During a short stint at York University, she wanted to be a theater director who made “cool musicals,” while her Sartre- and Ibsen-reading classmates scoffed.

From Los Angeles Times

She scoffed, and her gaze briefly flew up to the rafters.

From Literature

The friends scoffed when I told them where I had just been.

From Los Angeles Times

“Then I guess you’re not a very good writer after all,” he scoffs.

From Literature