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20 example sentences for SPURN, such as:
1. She spurned my offers of help.
2. Of one who spurned them in his pride.
3. The insolence of office, and the spurns.
4. The heroine had to spurn the villain's advances.
5. artist who haunts her steps, and is spurned by the.
2. Of one who spurned them in his pride.
3. The insolence of office, and the spurns.
4. The heroine had to spurn the villain's advances.
5. artist who haunts her steps, and is spurned by the.
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Meanings and Examples of SPURN
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spurn
v. reject with contempt
Classic Sentence:
1 Well, that gives me sorrow, for I am not made so entirely happy by my marriage that I am willing to spurn you for the information, as I ought to do.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: 6 A Conjuncture, and Its Result upon the Pedestrian
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: 6 A Conjuncture, and Its Result upon the Pedestrian
2 The insolence of office, and the spurns.
3 The young girl spoke in high and enthusiastic terms of her mother, who, born in freedom, spurned the bondage to which she was now reduced.
4 But again when I reflected that they had spurned and deserted me, anger returned, a rage of anger, and unable to injure anything human, I turned my fury towards inanimate objects.
5 They were forever ardent and craving; still I desired love and fellowship, and I was still spurned.
6 That she had done a grievous thing in taking an impressionable child to mould into the form that her wild resentment, spurned affection, and wounded pride found vengeance in, I knew full well.
7 'She is dead, perhaps,' said Miss Dartle, with a smile, as if she could have spurned the body of the ruined girl.
8 artist who haunts her steps, and is spurned by the.
9 At Lowood, indeed, I took that resolution, kept it, and succeeded in pleasing; but with Mrs. Reed, I remember my best was always spurned with scorn.
10 I do not fear to be alone or to be spurned for another or to leave whatever I have to leave.
11 Of one who spurned them in his pride.
12 But the ship, having her full complement of seamen, spurned his suit; and not all the King his father's influence could prevail.
13 His soul had arisen from the grave of boyhood, spurning her grave-clothes.
14 Cranly's heavy boots were heard loudly charging across the quadrangle and then returning heavily, foiled and spurning the gravel at each step.
15 Hapless Acron goes down, and, spurning the dark ground, gasps out his life, and covers the broken javelin with his blood.
Example Sentence:
1 The heroine had to spurn the villain's advances.
2 She spurned my offers of help.
3 All attempts by the Socialists to woo him back were spurned.
4 The president spurned the tight security surrounding him and adopted a more intimate style of campaigning.
5 Or have they spurned scholarship and dedicated themselves to the serious business of being seriously rich?