Example sentences for: shunned

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

  • "Today the labels [of party] are shunned as an offense to a thinking person's individualism, and a vast majority of Americans insist they vote for 'the man, not the party,' " writes political scientist Larry Sabato.

  • During the Cold War, liberals shunned military intervention--even humanitarian military intervention--because such adventurism could provoke conflict with the Soviets and tended to buttress thuggish right-wingers.

  • Similarly behavioral data showed that the compounds we characterize as bitter were shunned by mice [ [ 31 32 33 34 35 ] , own unpublished data on sparteine, chloroquine and TEA].

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

  • 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.


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