sniggers

Example Sentences

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It is 12 years since Skopje was the setting for one of the more bizarre tales of Welsh football history, one that drew sniggers and sneers, not to mention damning headlines for their under-pressure manager.

From BBC • Mar. 24, 2025

“We wrote our first song, Daydreamer, in a kitchen in Dartford in five minutes,” sniggers Dean.

From The Guardian • Oct. 23, 2020

This confounded the soothsayers, and thereby insured that any professional predictions as to the result of today’s vote, a year later, have been met with sniggers of disbelief.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 23, 2016

Then there was Jared Leto in a Givenchy suit that largely got the thumbs-up, but was hardly enough to buffer him from the sniggers about his striking resemblance to a certain biblical character.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 2016

There were sniggers here and there and swift glances.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding