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Example sentences for "sneaking"

Lexicographically close words:
snawy; sneak; sneaked; sneaker; sneakers; sneakingly; sneaks; sneaky; sneck; sneer
  1. I won't have him bullied; and it was a mean sneaking thing to go telling tales as you did to old Dishy.

  2. Smithy and I talked it over last night, and we both agreed that you're never happy unless you're along with the forecastle Jacks, or sneaking about with old Ching.

  3. How Pantagruel sailed by the Sneaking Island, where Shrovetide reigned.

  4. He heard the drum-call on the still morning air and 'reckoned there was a cock patridge to git,' and came sneaking up the ravine with his gun.

  5. He halted for a moment, then came stealthily sneaking up toward the brush under which his nose told him the rabbits were crouching.

  6. As night came down the little fellow became very uneasy, sneaking out of his box, but going back at each slight alarm, tugging at his chain, or at times biting it in fury while he held it down with his fore-paws.

  7. She was continually searching for worthy objects of charity, and some false, sneaking scoundrel may have entrapped her into that house.

  8. I knew that some sneaking villain had been at work, but as to who he was or what he had done, I was totally ignorant.

  9. It seems to me impossible for it to be anything else but a mistake; and I feel my cheeks burning with shame--I feel degraded at the underhanded, sneaking course we are pursuing.

  10. I should despise myself if I thought that I was a sneaking fortune-hunter.

  11. Lots of 'em; and they are not only dead shots, but they know every hog path in the woods and are as sneaking and sly as so many Indians.

  12. Then why couldn't you come to the door and say so like a man, instead of sneaking up like a cowardly Secession bushwhacker?

  13. Not much; any more than a good Confederate is the same as a sneaking Yankee," replied Mr. Westall.

  14. He had come sneaking back while the watch-dog was off guard, secure in the belief that he had gone away.

  15. What do I care about Isom, or you, or anybody else, you spy, you sneaking spy!

  16. What's he sneaking around here for--taking Dick's boy away?

  17. Here's a go," exclaimed Jack, but he looked pleased in a sort of sneaking way.

  18. I reckon I was attached to him myself, in a sort of a sneaking way, but I was mighty fond of hog meat, too, and we needed Toby in the kitchen.

  19. And you hadn't thirty pound to buy your yoke of oxen that Ross was sneaking after.

  20. But whisht's the word, for Ross is sneaking after them.

  21. He treats me so very ill; not openly and above-board, as we say, but in such a nasty sneaking way, he is always trying to injure me.

  22. Joe White was an unamiable and, as Fred expressed it, a sneaking boy.

  23. Titmouse manifested a very natural anxiety to see the present occupants of Yatton; and it was with infinite difficulty that Snap could prevent him from sneaking about in the immediate neighborhood of the Hall, with the hope of seeing them.

  24. He was a sneaking backbiter, and had a blood-hound scent after an attorney.

  25. If he kept that money there, he became a puling, whining beggar, sneaking and crawling his way through life on--charity!

  26. Ned arose, and secured a better grip on the sneaking lad.

  27. This watch charm which I grabbed off Mr. Berg's chain the night he was sneaking around our house, and crossed the electric wires," went on the lad.

  28. I caught him sneaking around my machine shop about an hour ago, and when I asked him what he was doing he said he'd been out riding with Andy, and that they broke a wheel.

  29. What do you mean by sneaking around here this time of night?

  30. I never expected to meet Andy and his father to-night, any more than I expected to find Sam Snedecker sneaking around my shop, but it's a good thing I discovered both parties.

  31. I will when I find out what you mean by sneaking around here," retorted Tom, as he came back toward Ned, dragging with him a lad.

  32. I'm going to get a savage bull dog, and the first one who comes sneaking around here after dark will be sorry.

  33. There, Squire Fairfield, you can see them sneaking off like sheep-stealers," said Dock.

  34. I went into the yacht for the sole purpose of doing the little job I finished up to-night," answered Mat, with a sneaking smile.

  35. You can't blame a half-starving fellow sneaking any food that he finds lying about, you know.

  36. I heard footsteps, went to the broken window, and saw a bloke sneaking up towards the building.

  37. Fred, eagerly, as he came sneaking in, followed by Jack.

  38. But I did see Martell sneaking off through the backyard, past the stable, with something under his arm--a big package wrapped up in a couple of newspapers.

  39. A glimpse of an animal that looked something like a fox and something like a wolf, and wasn't either one, a wild animal that was sneaking around the train for the odd bits of food that were sometimes left in its wake.

  40. Far behind it, and in safety, were the white figures of the men who had caused the panic, sneaking off into the night.

  41. And that was why, if Whitey could have been closely watched, one would have seen him sneaking around the ranch barn every morning, just before it was time to start for school, and slipping things into his pockets.

  42. I have at least a sneaking suspicion that now and again there happens along a runner so staunch and courageous that he keeps up the fight until cock-crow and thus escapes all the apparitions which would overthrow him.

  43. It gave us pause and inspired a sneaking suspicion that perhaps there was something the matter with Tennyson after all.

  44. Bates would never come sneaking out over the road in this manner.

  45. My true lover must have seen that man sneaking up to my room.

  46. For the moment the jungle itself seemed a poisonous green abyss of creeping, crawling, sneaking death.

  47. This man, sneaking along the path, broke the little cord which shot the gun.

  48. But while I was sneaking up on you I noticed your get-up--with your creel and rod--and figured how you might have come there.

  49. He imagined the morrow with its possibility of social triumph; he went as far as to feel that Mrs. Shrimplin now had a certain sneaking respect for him.

  50. Somebody is sneaking through the timber toward the river.

  51. Either the hogs got away by themselves or else some of those sneaking Comanches have been around again.


  52. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sneaking" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    backstairs; clandestine; covert; crawl; crawling; creep; creeping; devious; feline; furtive; guileful; indirect; lurking; padding; private; privy; quiet; scramble; shifty; skulking; slinky; sly; sneaking; sneaky; stealing; stealthy; surreptitious; tiptoe; undercover; underground; underhand; underhanded; unobtrusive