Example sentences for: insulted

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

  • The New York Times ' George Vecsey suggested that latter-day black sports heroes such as Tiger Woods and Michael Jordan have insulted Robinson's legacy of sacrifice by devoting themselves to self-promotion and corporate marketing.

  • On Meet the Press , he said that evangelical Christians who put the Republicans in control of Congress in 1994 had been "insulted" and "disrespected" ever since.

  • The merchants at first tried the soft sell, offering cloth, wine, and necklaces for ivory and gold, but the traders of Calicut were insulted at being taken for “natives” who could be bought with cheap hooch and glass baubles.

  • Should we be honored or insulted?

  • In other words, it's white-trash pop stars who are being insulted, so it is the trailer-park pop-star anti-defamation league, not Foxman's, that should be demanding a retraction.


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