Example sentences for: spurned

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

  • 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.

  • Big companies such as General Motors have already spurned overtures for cash.

  • And the conclusion that the voters are fools, while always tempting to spurned politicians, is usually unwise.

  • Granted this corner of the quiz to fill how I choose, I'm going to live the dream of every participant who's ever had an especially good answer rejected: I'm going to run my dozen favorites that Randy, in his "wisdom," callously spurned.

  • In the New Republic , Tony Judt calls Sidney Blumenthal's claim in The New Yorker that Whittaker Chambers attacked Alger Hiss because of spurned gay love "a smear, 1990s style.


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