SNIVEL in a Sentence

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Example sentences for SNIVEL, such as:

1. Uriah Heep gave a kind of snivel.
2. I never snivel over trifles like that.
3. She's always snivelling about her unhappy childhood.
4. Don't you snivel to me complaining about your big brother.
5. Somebody is going to touch you, with a broomstick, if you don't stop snivelling.

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 Meanings and Examples of SNIVEL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
snivel
 v.  run at the nose; snuffle; whine; talk in tearful manner
Classic Sentence:
1  I never snivel over trifles like that.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FIFTEEN
2  Uriah Heep gave a kind of snivel.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 42. MISCHIEF
3  You have a snivel and feel sinful or awful about your sex, before you're allowed to have any.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
4  The others played out the game, slowly, painfully, stumbling on the rough earth, muffing the easiest shots, watched only by the small boy and his sniveling sister.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
5  Somebody is going to touch you, with a broomstick, if you don't stop snivelling.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT II
6  If you're going to be a lady, you'll have to give up feeling neglected if the men you know don't spend half their time snivelling over you and the other half giving you black eyes.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT V
7  Ye know that," said Tom; "I don't pretend none of your snivelling ways, but I won't lie in my 'counts with the devil himself.'
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
Example Sentence:
1  Don't you snivel to me complaining about your big brother.
2  She's always snivelling about her unhappy childhood.