Example sentences for: shunned

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

  • In Nigeria, shunned by Clinton because of its military dictatorship and human rights record, the independent daily Post Express, which opposes the dictatorship, reported an attack on the United States by a special adviser to head of state Gen.

  • Yesterday Milosevic reiterated his staunch refusal to withdraw forces from Kosovo--"even if the price is bombing"--and shunned meetings with American diplomats.

  • The Third Worlders share most of the concerns of the Liberal Humanitarians but are particularly hawkish about helping groups traditionally shunned by the West, notably Africans and Muslims.

  • So far, English speakers have shunned calling anything they say an idiotism, so the ambiguity remains.)

  • Whereas, the Times speculated, a sensible response to the hijacking might have been "to pool regional forces in anti-terrorist measures which might either negotiate with the hijackers or flush them out of the plane by force," since India has "frayed diplomatic ties with Pakistan and none with the internationally shunned Taleban régime … channels for coordinated action … did not exist."


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