SNEEZE in a Sentence

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For SNEEZE, below is one of 27 sentences:
Even the Duchess sneezed occasionally; and as for the baby, it was sneezing and howling alternately without a moment's pause.

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 Meanings and Examples of SNEEZE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
sneeze
 n.  a symptom consisting of the involuntary expulsion of air from the nose
 v.  exhale spasmodically, as when an irritant entered one's nose
Classic Sentence: (22 in 2 pages)
1  The seeds and the dust from the sacks made them sneeze.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 2
2  Outside the settle candles gutter, locks of hair wave, young women shiver, and old men sneeze.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 6 The Two Stand Face to Face
3  'I never gaze up to heaven except when I want to sneeze,' growled Bazarov, and turning to Arkady he added in an undertone.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
4  It makes you sneeze when you come in.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT I
5  All that the bourgeois have to do is to bear themselves well, I'll sneeze them out subversive couplets.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER II—GAVROCHE ON THE MARCH
6  The detonation makes one sneeze.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER I—HISTORY OF CORINTHE FROM ITS FOUNDATION
7  The only things in the kitchen that did not sneeze, were the cook, and a large cat which was sitting on the hearth and grinning from ear to ear.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland By Lewis Carroll
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI. Pig and Pepper
8  You old hands got so wise, that a child cannot cough, or sneeze, but you see desperation and ruin at hand.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
9  His prayers and fasts availed him little for the suppression of anger at hearing his mother sneeze or at being disturbed in his devotions.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
10  'Thankee, said the knight politely, as he took a pinch and sneezed seven times so violently that his head fell off.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWELVE
11  As she spoke Telemachus sneezed so loudly that the whole house resounded with it.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XVII
12  In his drowsy condition he inhaled the latter insect, sneezed violently, and so returned to consciousness.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER III
13  In conclusion, the visitor took out a cambric pocket-handkerchief, and sneezed into it with a vehemence wholly new to Tientietnikov's experience.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I
14  Even the Duchess sneezed occasionally; and as for the baby, it was sneezing and howling alternately without a moment's pause.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland By Lewis Carroll
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI. Pig and Pepper
15  The aged-looking little face suddenly puckered up still more and the baby sneezed.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 7: Chapter 16
Example Sentence:
1  And the sneeze of the baby, the shriek of the Gryphon, and all the other queer noises, would change to the confused clamour of the busy farm yard.
2  Cats make him sneeze - I think he's allergic to the fur.
3  And certainly there was a most extraordinary noise going on within, a constant howling and sneezing, and every now and then a great crash, as if a dish or kettle had been broken to pieces.
4  As for the baby, it was sneezing and howling alternately without a moment's pause.
5  Speak roughly to your little boy; And beat him when he sneezes; He only does it to annoy; Because he knows it teases.