What's the difference between sneering and sneezing?
Sneering
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sneer
Example Sentences:
(1) He made his political base in this western province, which has long felt sneered at: Harper has spent his political career redressing the balance.
(2) Gough, as the degenerate black sheep of an English family trying to blackmail an American adulterer, would curl a long lip into a sneering smile, which became a characteristic of this fine actor's style.
(3) Comment is perfectly legitimate, but the sneering, supercilious, specious and dismissive contributions masquerading as ‘commentary’ belittle the claims of a ‘quality’ paper.” Before attempting to assess the validity of the reader’s analysis – broadly shared by some other readers – I think his email reflects one or two other interesting aspects of the demographics of the Guardian’s readership and the left.
(4) Webb agreed, calling Miliband "irresponsible" for "stirring up cheap headlines", sneering: "Why doesn't the government set a price cap on a tin of beans?"
(5) I think it's a good thing that comedians want to exploit (and relieve) our anxieties about what's sayable – but only if we as audiences become bolder in opposing comedy that bullies, comedy that sneers at the vulnerable and the under-represented, comedy that feels, in Herring's words, "like being at school and going, 'Ha ha, you're a spastic.'"
(6) Over the years the Oscars have been variously coveted and sneered at, have increasingly brought box-office value and personal prestige, become a media obsession, a gauge of industrial morale and a way of taking the national pulse.
(7) It has sneered at the 1906 reforms of Lloyd George , who recognised that 19th-century philanthropy (which was always pretty judgmental and selective) was no longer adequate for a modern industrial country.
(8) Merkel grimly submitted to an executive fashion makeover after the media sneered at her frumpy look; now she clearly relishes shining out in jewel-toned jackets from a forest of dark suits at G20 meetings.
(9) At which point – obviously – you reach the stubborn limits of the debate: from even the most supposedly imaginative Labour people as much as any Tories, such heresies would presumably be greeted with sneering derision.
(10) This is so corny, what I'm saying, but I feel obliged to drone on about it, because before we reach the tipping point, it's time to stop sneering at fat people, being disapproving and bossing them about: walk to work, eat your greens, control yourselves.
(11) Henry Barnes The clergy may not be entirely trustworthy This may not be big news to cinemagoers – sneering at religious types goes all the way back to DW Griffith's Intolerance – but Cannes boasts an impressively ecumenical approach.
(12) Chindamo's trial, the following year, heard how the teenager, who came to Britain from Italy at the age of five, sneered as he slapped, punched and then stabbed the headteacher.
(13) Oh, but now this is highfalutin identity politics to be sneered at along with your safe spaces and trigger warnings.
(14) Hours after Tuesday’s bomb attack on a tourist area of Istanbul , Erdoğan delivered a sneering criticism of Chomsky and “so-called intellectuals” who had signed a letter calling on Turkey to end the “deliberate massacre” of Kurdish people in the south east of the country, He invited Chomsky to visit the area in a defiant televised speech to a conference of Turkish ambassadors in Ankara.
(15) "I always hated the expression anyway, mostly because I encountered it in stupid or sneering contexts."
(16) Naturally, Michael Gove , former Times columnist, responded to the thousands of economists who warned he was taking an extraordinary risk with the sneer that will follow him to his grave: “People in this country have had enough of experts.” He’s been saying the same for years.
(17) It is easy to sneer at the journalistic concept of the Angry Young Man (a phrase, incidentally, coined by a dismissive Royal Court press officer).
(18) But Winterbottom, a competent pre-war centre-half for Manchester United, unfairly sneered at by some England international veterans as one who had never played, was, in essence, a bureaucrat rather than a technician, who would admit his other job – yes, he had two!
(19) The decision to have clip-on ties, favoured for police officers, sneered at by those who believe "children should learn to do ties up from an early age", is already paying off, with not a single tie out of place.
(20) If you ever feel tempted to say "status quo" or "cul de sac", for instance, Orwell will sneer at you for "pretentious diction".
Sneezing
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sneeze
(n.) The act of violently forcing air out through the nasal passages while the cavity of the mouth is shut off from the pharynx by the approximation of the soft palate and the base of the tongue.
Example Sentences:
(1) Intranasal challenge of allergic subjects with the allergen to which they are sensitive rapidly produces sneezing, rhinorrhea, and airway obstruction.
(2) The speediest effect was registered for sneezing, followed by nasal catarrh, nasal itching, and blocking.
(3) Absence of sneezing or inability to sneeze was found in 2.6% of psychiatric patients, although only half complained of the symptom spontaneously.
(4) Topical BDP by both methods of delivery was rapidly effective in decreasing mean nasal obstruction, rhinorrhea, sneezing, and itching symptoms as well as mean eye symptoms with no statistically significant differences between them.
(5) The response to nasal challenge was monitored by counting the number of sneezes, the assessment of subjective symptoms, and by measuring the levels of histamine and TAME-esterase activity in recovered nasal lavages.
(6) A particular mucosal syndrome with sneezing and conjunctivitis was seen only after administration of the lysine salt.
(7) Airborne Ptychodiscus brevis toxin (PBTX), produced by Ptychodiscus brevis (Florida red tide), induces cough, rhinorrhea, watery eyes, and sneezing in normal individuals and wheezing in subjects with asthma.
(8) For instance, the acute symptoms of allergy and asthma such as sneezing, bronchospasm and hives are believed to be largely the result of mediator release from mast cells whereas chronic symptoms (the result of allergic inflammation) can be explained on the basis of eosinophil-mediated tissue damage.
(9) The two treatments were equally effective in controlling eye irritation, sneezing, nasal congestion and itchy nose, throat and palate, but cetirizine improved rhinorrhea more than terfenadine (P less than .05).
(10) Further functions are: the voluntary interruption of the urinary stream, the reflectory occlusion by elevated intraabdominal pressure (coughing, sneezing, laughing, heavy physical work), expression of the rest of urine in the urethra after micturition, stabilization of the proximal urethra in the urogenital diaphragm.
(11) A 35 year old man experienced severe transitory neck pain following a violent sneeze.
(12) Sampling of human subjects, who had been in contact with animals infected with foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) virus, showed that virus could be recovered from the nose, throat, saliva and from air expelled during coughing, sneezing, talking and breathing.
(13) In a double-blind study, diphenylpyraline (Lergobine) was given to 63 patients whose main symptoms were stuffiness of the nose, increased secretion of mucus, snuffling, sneezing and redness of the eyes.
(14) a) synovial bursa ( schleimbeutel ) b) sneeze guard ( Spukschutz ) c) snotty-nosed brat – literally snot spoon ( rotzloeffel ) d) grumpy bastard – literally lump of vomit ( kotzbrocken ) 4,000 Jet-setters complain of a) Jetleg b) Jetleck c) Jetlag d) Jetlack 8,000 Who, if a contestant on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, would definitely not call the Joker?
(15) The patient scorings for nasal secretion, nasal itching, sneezing bouts and total nasal symptoms were significantly different between the treatment groups during the whole treatment period.
(16) The severity of the symptoms sneezing, running nose, blocked nose and itchy eyes was recorded daily by each patient on a 10 cm visual analog scale.
(17) No patient developed cough or wheezing or required treatment at the end of the nasal-challenge tests, even when persistent sneezing was provoked or in the subject who had a dual nasal response to nasal challenge.
(18) A similar, although non-significant, trend was observed for sneezing and itchy nose, but there was no apparent difference in the reporting of sore eyes.
(19) They will also show signs of breathing problems including gaping beaks, coughing, sneezing and rattling wheezing.
(20) Aspirin significantly inhibited the increases in the cyclooxygenase metabolites PGE, PGD2, PGF2 alpha, 6-keto-PGF1 alpha, and thromboxane but did not affect the amount of sneezing or the levels of histamine, TAME-esterase activity, or leukotrienes.