Example sentences for: spurn

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

  • You cannot spurn marriage if you cannot also choose it.

  • And most striking, in my view, is the hypocrisy (or ignorance) and class bias of feminists and liberals--who proclaimed during the Hill-Thomas uproar that "women don't make these things up," and that "you just don't get it" if you presumed Thomas innocent until proven guilty--only to spurn Jones' allegations of far more serious (indeed, criminal) conduct as unworthy of belief and legally frivolous.

  • The president needs to spurn the vital center, defy the spirit of reconciliation, and recognize he has only a little time left to tell the public what it doesn't want to hear.

  • The Republican-sympathizing Irish News of Belfast led Monday with the news that Sinn Fein "may spurn chance to re-enter peace talks," but the Irish Times of Dublin quoted Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams as saying he was still "totally wedded" to the peace process.

  • In a few pages, Wolfe lets us know that Vietnamese immigrants live packed into tiny apartments and take odious jobs in chicken processing plants that white and black Atlantans both spurn.


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