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Example sentences for: flouted
How can you use “flouted” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Shehhi initially flouted this directive, however, and did not reenroll at the University of Bonn until the following January, barely passing his course there.
Where no one had the wherewithal to stand up for it--say, in rural Alabama-- Loving was flouted.
At about the same time, National Public Radio's Terry Gross on All Things Considered said of an artist she had interviewed, He flouted his radical opinions [in order to shock].
Despite admissions that the plant had flouted government-approved guidelines for the handling of uranium and comments reported in Hong Kong's South China Morning Post from Western scientists that "safety practices in Japan are 'a bit lax,' " the Japanese government restated its commitment to commercial generation of nuclear power Tuesday.
One of these is the distinction between rules that must be obeyed and rules that can be safely flouted.