Example sentences for: spurned

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

  • And indeed, my husband and I spurned the courtly generalist for an up-to-date internist, highly recommended by a more senior associate at the top Washington law firm my husband had joined.

  • 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.

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

  • "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.

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


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