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.

  • He lives them, wears them, and so is proofed against the temptation to follow the (logical) sequel to bourgeois success--the urge to abandon the self-denial that made it all possible, to mock your colleagues and spurn your peers, to return no e-mail, to call in sick from the beach house, to drink $20 bottles of wine every night, to watch porno movies in bed with ironic comp-lit graduate students, and to vanish for days on end in pursuit of un-bourgeois happiness.

  • 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.

  • Critics also say that editors, who once patiently developed writers, now spend more time marketing books than editing them, which results in the production of longer, sloppier, less interesting books that readers spurn.

  • The problem was particularly serious for Siegfried, who in the first act seemed a happy-go-lucky fellow, with no apparent reason to spurn the beautiful women of the court and go out hunting a mirage.


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