Example sentences for: shunned

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

  • Asked if he liked Assad, formerly shunned by the United States for being a sponsor of terrorism, Clinton described him as "very experienced and trustworthy; a man of his word."

  • Once upon a time, colorful clothing was the sign of unspeakable naiveté or ridiculous ostentation, to be shunned in favor of black by all properly bemused and detached critics of society.

  • Meanwhile, George Washington University's Jonathan Turley, a devout Clinton foe, recalled wistfully in a recent Wall Street Journal column that for his "selfless act," Ross was "shunned, physically assaulted and ruined both politically and financially."

  • Being a reporter all my life, I have naturally shunned any side-taking.

  • Meinungsfreiheit is a term both regimes clearly shunned; I suppose in a sense it was liberated.


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