Example sentences for: affront

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

  • "Arafat's meetings with Clinton without parallel invitations to [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu are viewed in Israel as an international affront to Netanyahu during an election period and as encouraging Arafat's promised declaration of independence," Ha'aretz said.

  • Anthony Burgess, in his Kingdom of the Wicked , remarks that Vespasian's own contemporaries designated street urinals as “vespasians,” certainly a much more ignominous affront because of its timeliness.

  • Rikyu apparently incurred the warlord’s wrath by placing a statue of himself in the large main gate, under which Hideyoshi would have had to pass — an intolerable affront to a famously proud warrior.

  • 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."

  • And he single-handedly deserves responsibility for creating the tabloid-television phenomenon with A Current Affair , the worst affront to American television-news standards of our era.


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