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."

  • 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."

  • With one fleeting exception, when he shot up, and later blew up, his own cue cards, Dave shunned firearms and explosions.

  • "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.

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


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