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Sneak in   /snik ɪn/   Listen
Sneak in

verb
1.
Enter surreptitiously.  Synonym: creep in.  "In this essay, the author's personal feelings creep in"
2.
Insert casually.  Synonyms: insert, slip in, stick in.






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"Sneak in" Quotes from Famous Books



... to consternation when he discovered that Sprouse had not yet put in an appearance. What had become of the man? He could not help feeling, however, that somehow the little agent would suddenly pop out of the chimney in his room, or sneak in through a crack under the door,—and laugh ...
— Green Fancy • George Barr McCutcheon

... apartment at the hotel, safe from the rain that was falling. "How did you happen to see Anson Morse and Happy Harry?" My old readers will doubtless remember that the latter was the disguised tramp who was so vindictive toward Tom, while Morse was the man who endeavored to sneak in Mr. Swift's shop and steal a ...
— Tom Swift and his Motor-boat - or, The Rivals of Lake Carlopa • Victor Appleton

... shaking hands. "Thought you could sneak in and out of town like a thief in the night, did you? It can't be done, ...
— The Brown Study • Grace S. Richmond

... undergone, with lowered eyes, in the Court of Peers, the haughty scorn of M. Magnan; one must not have been called "pickpocket" by the English newspapers; one must not have been menaced with Clichy; in a word, there must have been nothing of the sneak in the man. ...
— Napoleon the Little • Victor Hugo

... I say," he said, as they sat radiantly digesting their first drink. "We'll wait till he comes up, and we'll ask him if we can't just stay here and drink what he brings us—see. We'll tell him we haven't got any place to drink it—see. Then we can sneak in there whenever there ain't nobody in that there room and tuck a bottle under our coats. We'll have enough to ...
— Tales of the Jazz Age • F. Scott Fitzgerald



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