Example sentences for: spurned

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

  • These reportedly intimate letters, dated between 1989 and 1991, were offered for sale for $240,000 to the London Daily Mirror by "Hewitt's spurned Italian fiancée," but the newspaper refused the offer and handed the letters to the executors of the princess's estate.

  • In 1998, the adherence to a modest Jewish ritual such as celebrating Hanukkah follows in the tradition of the ancient Israelites, who spurned the pressures to adopt Hellenism.

  • In the first prosecution ever under California's cyber-stalking statute, an L.A. man (who, natch, lived with his 80-year-old mother) is being tried for using the Internet in an attempt to set up the rape of a woman who had spurned him.

  • A Royal Commission on the Arts and Letters was spurned by Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent as a futile body for “subsidizing ballet dancers.”

  • His screenplay ideas in the company of the muse are pathetically feeble, and when she encourages them--and when they find favor with Steven's agent and the executives who'd previously spurned him--the point seems to be that everyone in the film industry is a moron.


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