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Example sentences for: spurn

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

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.
You cannot spurn marriage if you cannot also choose it.
George W. Bush faces a dilemma: If he participates, he risks losing to the social conservatives who dominate GOP straw polls; if he skips the poll, Iowans may spurn him in February's all-important caucuses.
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.
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.