Example sentences for: frowned

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

  • Some errors are harder to see but just as surely mistaken: “I frowned at the coffee percolator, which —finally began to perk.

  • However, they then found that the young men who took over the female roles were also attracting ardent devotees among military officers and even priests — homosexuality at that time was not yet frowned upon.

  • Japanese men don't help to bring up baby, and nannies are frowned upon, so motherhood can ruin a woman's career.

  • She picked up the magazine, inspected the cryptogram, frowned, nodded, and left the office.

  • Although credit-ratings agencies had always frowned on these agreements , General American always claimed they were a good business to be in.


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