Example sentences for: umbrage

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

  • I would tell Mumsy that you take umbrage at her acting out, and I would return the gifts for credit, buying a treat for both you and your wife.

  • Other critics rave that "one track after another leaps out at you until you've got 11 new favorite songs" (David Gates, Newsweek ), and that it's 1999's "most relentless gas--laughing or otherwise--of a party album" (Chris Wilman, Entertainment Weekly ). One dissenter takes umbrage at Beck's heavy borrowing from black music: Mike Jenkins writes in the Washington Post that the album "can't escape its minstrel-show undercurrents" and that the album's genre-bending "stunts" sink Beck "deeper in stylistic debt than he can ever repay."

  • But since it meandered erratically and erroneously for more than half of its length through the realm of semantics, I of course took both an interest and umbrage.

  • I trust that Mr. Ford, who started it all by Spiking Lunars [XVIII, 4, 6] is not going to take umbrage at the turn of this multilingual coda.

  • DeLay has been taking sudden umbrage at accusations that he is a tool of corporate lobbyists.


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