Example sentences for: spurned

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

  • House Speaker Newt Gingrich has spurned Democratic entreaties to offer Clinton a plea bargain short of impeachment.

  • So McCain spurned Iowa.

  • 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.

  • 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 piece bore the title The Lady's Not for Spurning, with the reasonably obvious meaning The subject of this painting is not to be spurned as a disreputable whore (but enjoyed as a sensitive portrayal).


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