Example sentences for: indignation

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

  • By now they were nearly bursting--with indignation, of course--but there was nothing for it: they had to wait till they got back to their internment quarters.

  • If, on the other hand, I turn round and do it to you, it probably means that I am turning in heroic defiance, wheeling in righteous indignation, turning on my tormentors.

  • Le Monde reported special indignation by the Green Party, one of whose members of parliament accused President Jacques Chirac of "making our country a prostitute" by offering Jiang his bed.

  • The New York Times offered moral indignation; the Washington Post offered cynical nonchalance.

  • Ever since a scandalized Parisian populace greeted the unveiling of Edouard Manet's Olympia with shocked indignation, controversy has been one measure of seriousness in Western art.


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