sniggers

Example Sentences

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"Little did they know why I was interested!" he sniggers.

From BBC • Sep. 21, 2019

There were sniggers, for example, when Trump insisted: “Nobody has more respect for women that I do, nobody.”

From The Guardian • Oct. 20, 2016

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

This last piece of shop brought sniggers from the choir, who perched like black birds on the criss-cross trunks and examined Ralph with interest.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding