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Example sentences for "outrage"

Lexicographically close words:
outpoured; outpouring; outpourings; output; outputs; outraged; outrageous; outrageously; outrages; outraging
  1. The conviction that the Squire really had some secret, and had been expecting and fearing some such outrage as that on the North Moor, seemed only too well grounded.

  2. When another sun arose the dastardly outrage upon the American elective franchise had been completed, and Addicks was busily scheming to carry out the remainder of the plot.

  3. The men responsible for this outrage were to be in Wilmington on the following day and from the appearance of things would get the money Addicks had destined for his followers.

  4. An outrage had been worked upon them, upon the public, upon the majesty of the law.

  5. This law was a curse to the nation, an outrage upon the poor Negro and suffering humanity.

  6. The first of these declared as a platform of the society that "slavery is an outrage on the laws of humanity" and that "its continued practice demands the best exertions for its extinction.

  7. The closest scrutiny could detect no outrage or violence inflicted upon their political rights in North Carolina for many years past.

  8. I may say this, I may tell her that her conduct is shameless, an outrage on all feeling, and not only derogatory to her station, but unwomanly?

  9. This outrage was now unbearable; a rush was made at him, and he fell amongst the crowd, who had torn him limb from limb but for the intervention of the police, who were driven to defend him with fixed bayonets.

  10. The outrage of this conduct has so shaken my nerves that I can scarcely write, nor is my sense of indignation lessened by the levity with which it pleases Culduff to treat the whole matter.

  11. There is a strong moral feeling in the heart of the nation, that no man, however great his abilities, can outrage with impunity.

  12. The almost tremulous horror which he gave to this last expression--as of an outrage unknown to mankind--warned Bramleigh to be silent.

  13. Flandrin's wife, writhing in rage for the outrage to the Petrus.

  14. It was not for the hurt she cared; it was the shame of defeat and outrage that stung her like a whip of asps.

  15. She could not avenge the outrage of Rose Flandrin and her sisterhood, and, being unable to avenge it, she shut her mouth and said nothing of it, as her habit was.

  16. The news of this outrage was communicated to parliament in the midst of a furious discussion of the decree for the commercial monopoly.

  17. He swore it was an outrage upon common sense.

  18. Law was a Protestant, and the regent, unscrupulous as he was himself, did not dare publicly to outrage the severe edicts which Louis XIV.

  19. There's only one side that interests me--the outrage inflicted upon my hospitality by this dirty guest of mine.

  20. The object of this outrage," continued the Colonel, "for an outrage I cannot deny it to have been, was not a romantic one.

  21. The thing is a daring outrage in the middle of London; it sounds more like a page from a romance than anything else.

  22. When you say that I am drunk you outrage my feelings.

  23. What greater outrage could have been committed had Capua been captured?

  24. What explanation, what palliation, can there be for such an enormous outrage to our common humanity?

  25. In truth, it ought not to be permitted that so insignificant a person should outrage a woman of my rank.

  26. Anne heard it with the deepest indignation, and so gross an outrage extinguished any latent spark of tenderness left in her heart.

  27. And it was not enough that she obtained an easy conquest over her, for she instigated the Count to add outrage to desertion, and he docilely compromised his forsaken mistress by a gross and shameful perfidy.

  28. No law can serve us here efficient against the tyranny of the League; but if in all the land high places of justice be, there will I go, and there denounce the practice of such outrage and wrong.

  29. The young fisher stood motionless, as if his presence were outrage to the spirit of the silent dwellers below, so eager was he for life, so brim with passion and play and hearty thirst for strong years of sunshine and rain.

  30. Such an invasion was an unprecedented outrage upon the gentle tenor of his life.

  31. But he had the air of a man silently enduring an outrage rather than struck down by the conviction that the woman he loved was worthless.

  32. It is the worst outrage of all," said she with heaving breast, and the blood so surged into her eyes and ears that she could see and hear no more.

  33. No thought of hers connected this outrage with Domitian.

  34. The hurt is yours, my father, but the outrage mine; and I swear to you, by the Blood and the Death, that I will take such a vengeance as shall never be forgotten!

  35. In the end they submitted, for the sake of their skins, and considering, no doubt, a later vengeance for this outrage upon their holy authority.

  36. What new outrage is this that I have just seen attempted?

  37. So far the Communists had abstained from excesses, and from outrage upon peaceable citizens; had it been otherwise, Cuthbert would have returned to fetch Mary away at once.

  38. I shall leave this riot to be dealt with by the King's courts, who will sharply punish both instigators and actors in this outrage upon the royal authority.

  39. The crowd, relieved of their presence, grew calm; and some of the more timid of them got apprehensive of the consequences of this outrage upon the Royal Intendant.

  40. Philibert shall pay with his life for the outrage of to-day, or I will lose mine!

  41. So fell an outrage has the tyrant dared Against a lady free and nobly born!

  42. Is this outrage to be perpetrated Before our very eyes?

  43. He was enjoying the martyrdom which the outrage on his home and the death of his aged mother and father had brought.

  44. It was also decided to send Orson Hyde and John Gould to Missouri "with advice to the Saints in their unfortunate situation through the late outrage of the mob.

  45. The story of this outrage is told in Smith's autobiography, and the details there given may be in the main accepted.

  46. One speaker went into a review of Mormon wrongs since the tarring of the prophet in Ohio, holding the federal government responsible, and naming as the crowning outrage the sending of a Missourian to govern them.

  47. The Mormons have always considered this "massacre," as they called it, the crowning outrage of their treatment in Missouri, and for many years were especially bitter toward all participants in it.

  48. Finally she came forward and said: From the report of the first outrage in Cuba down to the present time, there has not been a moment but that its people have had my sympathy.

  49. I have everywhere protested against this outrage and urged the women to demand that the railway companies should give them separate cars, with no smoking allowed.

  50. Anthony, constitute, and are an unlawful interference with the right of privacy, and a gross and unwarranted outrage upon the memory of the said Mary M.

  51. What an outrage that Mr. Gladstone refused to allow Mr. Woodall's amendment to his bill to be at least voted upon!

  52. Little knowledge could those have had of Aurelian's character, who tempted him to acts but too welcome to his cruel nature by such an outrage as this.

  53. Depend upon it, England will not allow this outrage to go unavenged.

  54. The City, indignant at the outrage offered to the Sheriff, cried loudly for justice.

  55. No outrage was committed; the privileges of the municipality were respected, the magistrates were not changed.


  56. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "outrage" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abomination; abuse; afflict; affront; anger; aspersion; atrocity; bad; bane; batter; bewitch; blight; breach; brickbat; bruise; buffet; contempt; contumely; corrupt; corruption; crime; crucify; curse; cut; damage; defile; deflection; delinquency; deprave; dereliction; despite; despoil; destroy; destruction; detriment; disadvantage; disgust; dishonor; disoblige; disservice; distress; doom; dump; enormity; envenom; error; evil; failure; fault; felony; fleer; flout; force; genocide; gibe; grievance; grieve; harass; harm; havoc; horrify; humiliate; humiliation; hurt; ill; impair; imposition; impropriety; indignity; indiscretion; infamy; infect; infection; iniquity; injure; injury; injustice; insult; jeer; jeering; jinx; lapse; limit; malfeasance; malodorous; maltreat; manhandle; maul; menace; mischief; misdeed; misdemeanor; mistreat; misuse; mock; mockery; molest; offence; offend; offense; omission; oppress; outrage; persecute; persecution; pervert; poison; pollute; pollution; prejudice; provoke; rape; ravish; rough; ruin; sacrilege; savage; scandal; scandalize; scathe; scoff; shame; shock; sin; slight; slip; spoil; sting; taint; taunt; threaten; torment; tort; torture; toxin; transgression; trespass; trip; venom; vexation; vilify; violate; violation; violence; woe; wound; wrong