Example sentences for: flouting

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

  • USA Today leads with the Dept. of Justice's attempt to have Microsoft held in contempt because the company is allegedly flouting the recently issued court order requiring it to market its Web browser Internet Explorer separately from its Windows 95 operating system.

  • Both the LAT and NYT explain that the gist of Reno's finding yesterday was that there was no compelling evidence from Gore's remarks at these meetings that he was contemplating flouting the election finance laws.

  • Transportation engineers fearfully refer to gradually going faster and faster on the highway, flouting the speed limit, as "speed creep," and it is, well, accelerating.

  • Even Sinatra's Mob ties supposedly demonstrated his flouting of authority.

  • Calling this "a systematic flouting of state authority, a murderous form of gangsterism by which republicans seek to exert their illegal authority over 'their' areas," the paper said in an editorial: "If one could imagine such a process applied across the British Isles, that would be equivalent of nearly 20,000 people violently evicted from their homes.


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