Example sentences for: flouting

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

  • In principle, I'm all for flouting hobgoblinish rules of consistency, and I think that farce--a violent genre that feeds on desperation--is often wasted on trivial conflicts.

  • 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.

  • The New York Times runs Floyd top-front, but leads instead with the House's passage last night of a campaign reform bill that would ban "soft money" and tightly regulate "issues" ads in the two months preceding an election, to prevent these two items from becoming vehicles for flouting contribution limits that are supposed to apply to individual candidates.

  • 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.

  • Even if Iraq reneges on the agreement--which is likely--the United States has lost nothing but time: There will be far more support for bombing if Hussein flouts Annan than there was when Hussein was simply flouting Clinton.


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