Example sentences for: insult

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

  • This is the most noxious formulation, slung as an insult by hawks such as the Weekly Standard and the Wall Street Journal . "This man who is engaged in this massive ethnic cleansing," Standard publisher Bill Kristol spat on This Week --"We're going [to]cut another deal with him?

  • You can insult him, you can mock him, and you can patronize him, but you can't ruin his fine, front-running mood.

  • Ivor Brown, in one of his delightful books on words, Random Words (1971), writes that Cuthbert had been an honored English name, but that somehow during the 1914—18 war it “ceased to be a name and became an insult” and was used of slackers who evaded military service.

  • One linguistic quibble: the piece revives the old-fashioned term "white slave trade," which brings with it an unnecessary implication that slavery is a special insult to white women.

  • A triumph of the human spirit or an insult to the murdered millions?


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