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Example sentences for "outraged"

Lexicographically close words:
outpouring; outpourings; output; outputs; outrage; outrageous; outrageously; outrages; outraging; outragious
  1. In those passionate days, the ardent reformers were as much outraged by this pregnant confession as the ecclesiastics.

  2. They had been willing to enlist and pay troops under their own banners, but they had felt outraged at the enormous contribution demanded of them for a foreign war, undertaken in the family interests of their distant master.

  3. That great seigneur who once so shamefully outraged my husband?

  4. One day last month I received a note stamped with outraged pride.

  5. The people is up and alive to what is occurring; it is ready to take decisive measures to avenge its outraged majesty.

  6. But such episodes as those of Rheims and Louvain merely attract the attention of the world because of the celebrity of the outraged shrines.

  7. He has outraged all the rules and the instincts of chivalry.

  8. The equinox of outraged earth shall blaze And flash its levin on your infamous might.

  9. The latter perceived on the instant that he had a previous liaison to deal with--an angry and outraged lover--and he was not prepared to act either wisely or well.

  10. To be outraged and insulted this way before my own child!

  11. During this impassioned speech by the outraged cacique, Balboa remained gazing first at the chieftain, then at his daughter, without uttering a word.

  12. Had he been told that this naif snobbishness had much to do with his novel emotion of adoration, he would have received the information with a tempest of incredulous and outraged wrath.

  13. He rode on in a wild flare of outraged protest for half a mile, the horse going as it willed, at a lazy walk.

  14. Somehow this casual apology roused anew all the feeling of outraged anger that she had then felt.

  15. She'd be just as astounded and outraged as you are, I'm sure--even more so.

  16. All up in arms--white now--quite outraged by her unkind obstinacy.

  17. After the first start of surprise at his disclosure, her ladyship showed a calmness that quite outraged him.

  18. There was a certain strain of unconventionality in Sophy, that often outraged Loring's extreme conventionality of outlook.

  19. The first is an extract from a farewell speech at Montreal, listened to with tears by a crowded audience in the very place where, a few years before, he had been so scandalously outraged and insulted.

  20. The former was forced to submit to the will of a soldier with a revolver at her throat; the second, in spite of her resistance, was thrown upon a bed and outraged in the presence of her little daughter, aged 3.

  21. His dignity was outraged and, what was much worse, unavenged.

  22. There was an outraged clamour of feminine protest.

  23. I have gone through every sorrow of life myself--outraged affections, and all that sort of thing.

  24. Your life is probably forfeited to the outraged laws of man, but may your soul find mercy in its utmost need.

  25. But could he silence my outraged conscience?

  26. And now the spectacle of a prisoner outraged and maltreated moves no indignation in their hearts.

  27. Whatever outraged His tender and perfect nature was not less dreadful to Him than to us; it was much more so, because His sensibilities were unblunted and exquisitely strung.

  28. Among the "unknown sufferings" by which the Eastern Church invokes her Lord, surely not the least was His outraged moral sense.

  29. If any genuine reverence for His commandment had survived, it would have been outraged by such a collision between the text and the gloss, the precept and the precautionary supplement.

  30. After all, if the Asika's love was terrible, what would be the appearance of her outraged hate?

  31. Audrey burst out, startled, and diverted, at the explanation, but at the same time outraged by a confession so cynical.

  32. Audrey, outraged by the hateful hypocrisy of persons over fifty, and terribly constrained and alarmed, turned vaguely back up the stairs.

  33. It was as if the whole outraged spirit of the British upper classes were crying out upon the poverty and the misery they have helped create; it was a perfect yelp of class-consciousness.

  34. Clélie, clapping her hands over her outraged ears, fled as if from fiends.

  35. He seemed to want none of us; I have seen him savagely repulse the dog, who, shocked and outraged at this exhibition of depravity, withdrew, casting backward glances of horrified and indignant reproach.

  36. The man boiled with offended dignity and outraged pride.

  37. Still the demand is being granted, but it has cost us more loss of dignity now that he has outraged the sanctity of the state and waged war against it, than if he had obtained his previous request to be admitted a candidate.

  38. Upon my honour I thought that you would be more angered than I: for, apart from the fact that I think you should be stirred by any injury done by anyone to me, this man in a way outraged you in treating me so badly.

  39. I felt outraged by this treatment, and thereafter did not feel or show toward General Curtis the respect or subordination which ought to characterize the relations of an officer toward his commander.

  40. That Sherman felt "outraged beyond measure" was natural and indeed inevitable.

  41. But there is a respect due to certain wrongs and sufferings that would be outraged by uncovering them.

  42. If a wealthy Turk murdered a Greek in the fields, burnt down his house, and outraged his family, there was no court where the offender could be brought to justice.

  43. The Czar himself was out of reach: the vengeance of outraged patriotism fell upon an insignificant person who had the misfortune to be regarded as his principal agent.

  44. I made the meekest possible apology for my intrusion, but the outraged Grewter was not appeased.

  45. He lifted the cup and said: "Brethren, I hold in my hand the water of your river bearing the red stain of the life of a Southern woman, a priceless sacrifice on the altar of outraged civilization.

  46. The Senator returned to the other end of the Capitol wrapped in the mantle of his outraged dignity, and in thirty minutes the bill was defeated, and the House adjourned.

  47. He had outraged his own feelings in doing so.

  48. The plan of Von Berger, and the cruel nature of the work assigned to him, had outraged all his ideas of his peculiar form of chivalry.

  49. She could be killed, torn to pieces, devoured, that was a small thing, but that she should be so outraged in her modesty was unendurable.

  50. The Fates sported with her--bodily fear, outraged modesty, mental anguish and now the terror of the storm.

  51. Arthur faithfully followed directions, narrowly escaping the outraged brute's small but sharp pointed heels on occasion.


  52. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "outraged" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    disgusted; intolerant; mad; perverted; shocked