Example sentences for: indignant

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

  • But then Miss Manners' "peculiar profession" depends on "sensitive but indignant souls ...

  • Growing more indignant by the paragraph, the editors declared it "time to ignite a popular outcry against unelected officials and their efforts to invalidate the results of elections."

  • The story focuses on a group of college buddies reunited for a wedding, which makes it "a kind of Big Chill for black folks" (Lonnae O'Neal Parker, the Washington Post ). (A similar comment in Entertainment Weekly provoked an indignant letter to the editor from star Taye Diggs.)

  • Robert Rennick has noted that many local citizens were indignant that civilization had chosen to modify the name.

  • There are also more sophisticated, interlocking parodies, as when grim-faced NORAD radar operators tune in Jerry Springer and find Seth and Dr. Evil in the middle of a show called "My Father Is Evil and Wants To Take Over the World"--a segment that degenerates into bleeping and fisticuffs when the archvillain rushes an indignant Klansman.


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