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verb

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of snicker
Noun
Sugar might have caught its share of snickers when its big plot twist was revealed, but Colin Farrell is a huge movie star who carried that show, and that should be enough to give him the edge. Joe Reid, Vulture, 13 July 2024 The outdoor effigy has been eliciting snickers, sneers — and the ire of politicians, who have called it a stunt. Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 10 Oct. 2024
Verb
As a young boy entered the afterschool program’s building, Stewart’s immature friends began to snicker because the boy seemed different than them. Hunter Patterson, The Athletic, 17 Feb. 2025 And when Lions owner Sheila Ford Hamp, her team 1-6 in 2022, walked out unscheduled to address a bunch of reporters and tell everyone to back the hell off, people snickered. Nick Baumgardner, The Athletic, 6 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for snicker
Recent Examples of Synonyms for snicker
Verb
  • The boy, too young to grasp the danger, was playing and laughing; a fleeting moment of innocence, juxtaposed against the backdrop of war.
    Andy Meek, Forbes.com, 11 July 2025
  • Asked by a reporter this week to describe the journey of her tennis career, Amanda Anisimova paused, then laughed.
    Becky Sullivan, NPR, 11 July 2025
Verb
  • Watch as sharks tear into his prosthetic limbs, squirm amid some gripping close calls, and allow the very macho commentary to wash over you and grimace (or giggle) at a shocking amount of fake blood.
    Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 20 July 2025
  • In the pictures, the pair enjoy an intimate moment on a bench overlooking the water, embracing and giggling.
    Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 7 July 2025
Noun
  • Downtown Parkway, Gatlinburg, Tennessee Walking Gatlinburg’s Downtown Parkway is a full-body sensory experience: sweet smells, bright colors, and the soundtrack of bluegrass, rushing water, and laughter.
    Staff report, Hartford Courant, 21 July 2025
  • Where once there were lawsuits and silence, there is now muscle memory, laughter, a chord progression rediscovered over coffee.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 19 July 2025
Verb
  • My seatmate nods, smiling, even her daughter looks up from her iPad.
    Rebecca Chace July 14, Literary Hub, 14 July 2025
  • And yet, when that year’s Oscar party kicked off at Morton’s, there was Lansing, smiling and posing with the editor-in-chief.
    Michael Grynbaum, HollywoodReporter, 14 July 2025
Verb
  • Wonders exclaims, as the others chuckle and gasp beside her.
    Benjamin VanHoose, People.com, 14 July 2025
  • Carvey said, though, that his job was simply to create a version of the former president that could make everyone chuckle.
    Rance Collins, IndieWire, 6 July 2025

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“Snicker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snicker. Accessed 26 Jul. 2025.

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