Example sentences for: spurned

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

  • "In matters of international relations, the United States is one nation," said House Speaker Newt Gingrich, as he spurned reporters' questions on l'affaire Lewinsky two weeks ago.

  • 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.

  • When his women unexpectedly wake up, like Galatea in his "Pygmalion" series or the spurned lover emerging from the almond tree in (1881-82, Merseyside), it's often disconcerting, and the men look as though they should have let sleeping maidens lie.

  • 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.

  • The Democratic Party spurned Mississippi's "Freedom Party" delegation, seating a bloc of segregationist whites instead.


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