Example sentences for: disgusted

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

  • Others are disgusted by the "sophomoric frat-house jokes" (Rex Reed, the New York Observer ). (See the official site.)

  • As best we know, Brandon did not identify as a lesbian, saying he was disgusted by the idea of loving a woman that way.

  • On January 12th, 1989, Carole Leonard, who compiles a chatty column for The Times of items picked up on the Rialto in The City, reported that a “reader in Surrey” (not, for a change, “Disgusted,” Tunbridge Wells) received a tax form with the instruction “Send the cheque and payslip unfolded to the Collector in the envelope provided.”

  • The two objections I see with this would-be super-short supersentence are, first, the highly elliptical and not terribly idiomatic omission of any overt identification of the clausal status of the word painful , and second, the analysis of the thoroughly idiomatic three-word phrase, you're disgusted by as an adjective clause containing a participial phrase and a rather elliptical prepositional phrase.

  • Sir John Francis Davis, an early governor, disgusted with the squabbling of the English residents, declared: “It is a much easier task to govern the 20,000 Chinese inhabitants of the colony than the few hundreds of English.”


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