Example sentences for: flout

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

  • Those who make and enforce the law have a special obligation not to flout it.

  • The president also tells the Times that he is prepared to flout Senate Republicans by making a recess appointment of Bill Lann Lee to Justice's top civil rights post.

  • Even without the specific delegation of authority, state law may still be considered valid if it doesn't flout federal goals.

  • The CDA, of course, won't be perfect, either--many will flout it, and Web sites in other countries won't be bound by it--but the ban plus the technological fix probably will shield children better than the technological fix alone.

  • Thousands of young women helped to build the church of God with their body, blood and bones when frenzied fathers, husbands or fiancés preferred to see them die by fire, sword or the fangs of wild beasts rather than live to flout [sic] the duty and destiny of womanhood.


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