snigger - use in sentences

Object

  • bit: We will just snicker a bit, then delete your email!

Converse of object

  • have: In fact, everyone here appeared to have a good snicker.
  • hear: Colonel O'Neill could already hear the sniggers in the Pentagon.
  • suppress: Judging by the suppressed sniggers from the audience, they were no more impressed by this than I was.
  • do: They did snicker but I thought nothing of it.

Preposition: at

  • back: The problem is that some people think I can write ( stop sniggering at the back there!
  • ourselves...: Yup, we just sniggered at a few ourselves... particularly like those Ozzfest snapshots in Throwdown's diary.

Adjective modifier

  • few: Although it won't have you rolling in the aisles the film is still worthy of a few sniggers.

Modifying Another Word

  • no: Well, my secret hobby ( no sniggering, now!
  • just: We will just snicker a bit, then delete your email!
  • n't: Plot: Charles and his wife Diana ( do n't snicker!
  • still: I'm still sniggering from the first time I saw it, never mind the last.
  • quietly: Are there any of God's promises you're in danger of quietly sniggering at?
  • again: DOUGAL: ( back to sniggering again )...Yes.

Followed by an intransitive particle

  • over: Not everything, before you start sniggering over that!
  • up: Is there anywhere a member who did not secretly snicker up his sleeve at this ridiculous proposition?

Used with why or when

  • when: I think it was deliberate, because they were sniggering when I got back.

Preposition: in

  • background: Draco was as unpleasant as ever, but he now seems more capable, rather than just sniggering in the background.

Preposition: from

  • audience: Judging by the suppressed sniggers from the audience, they were no more impressed by this than I was.

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