Example sentences for: affront

How can you use “affront” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • "A so-called work of art that maligns Jesus is an affront that warrants protest by every legal means.

  • He asserts that our meritocratic system is unfair, that it is an affront to our egalitarian ideals.

  • The WP asserts that after the debate the five attending politicians blasted Bush by arguing that his absence from the stage was an affront to voters.

  • "TRB " extrapolates Warren Beatty's presidential platform from his political manifesto, Bulworth . That "108-minute-long affront to black dignity" portends a demagogic campaign that blames corporate interests for America's real and imagined ills.

  • Exasperated by Albright's perceived affront to Malaysia, the country's Minister of Trade commented, "Maybe when I go to the states, I would like to meet Ken Starr."


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