verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Ruth tripped and fell as she walked up the steps. The boys behind her sniggered.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Ballantyne sniggered and Mitchell chuckled too.
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He sniggered and walked from the burning drum.
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Katie sniggered and snorted and even Graham smiled.
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No one sniggered when football coaches, business executives and politicians became fairer haired.
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Once, a dealer at Harvard Securities admitted to a director that he had been paid twice, and the director sniggered.
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The one with the thinning blonde hair made a remark at which the second man sniggered.
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They were all too kind to snigger but Suzi distinctly saw fat Luiza shrug her shoulders in a gesture of fatalistic despair.