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Example sentences for "outraging"

Lexicographically close words:
outrage; outraged; outrageous; outrageously; outrages; outragious; outragiously; outran; outranged; outrank
  1. The heretics delighted in outraging the religious sense of their day.

  2. We must reject an idea so outraging her well-known modesty of demeanour; and upon comparing the sweetly sensual countenance of the naked beauty with the almost stern dignity of that Duchess, as represented in her portrait, No.

  3. It not unfrequently happens that in outraging morality, the zealous enthusiast supposes he renders himself agreeable to his God.

  4. Thus we find him at the head of his troops, plundering churches, ravaging monasteries, outraging and profaning holy things, for the purpose of filling his coffers.

  5. Depriving them of their lands, pillaging their houses, devastating their farms, outraging their wives and daughters, killing them, could not subject the guilty to any civil or criminal action at law.

  6. These merciless pharisees could not resist the cruel pleasure of once more outraging the victim.

  7. Under the pretext of honoring the Virgin Mary, she insults her by outraging and misrepresenting her adorable Son.

  8. Perhaps it was to compensate for this that she went the length of outraging Miss Barfoot's feelings on the death of Bell a Royston.

  9. Not to arrive before the appointed hour she loitered on Chelsea Embankment, and it gave her pleasure to reflect that in doing this she was outraging the proprieties.

  10. In his blindness, he casts at his feet duties the most sacred, and he believes himself virtuous in outraging every virtue.

  11. But the new school pays no attention to other people, and rejoices in causing a sensation and outraging old-fashioned ideas.

  12. And haven't I been outraging them ever since I came to Grey Town?

  13. Some soldiers too, who had been captured after raiding the house of a Moslem and outraging the women in it, were executed, this being a serious offence against discipline.

  14. We found an unfinished letter which represented the rebel force as numbering five thousand, and stating that Smith's soldiers behaved very badly, outraging the citizens in many ways.

  15. France; the class have been characterised by the delight they took in outraging the religious sentiment.

  16. Oh, I could be pushed to an obvious enough retort," he said, losing patience, for now it was plain that they were outraging every etiquette by so long talking together while others were in the room.

  17. He was perpetually violating the sanctity of the drawing-room by the presence of Scapulas and Hederics, and outraging the propriety of morning visitors by bursting into his mother's boudoir with lexicons and slippers.

  18. In that very week the Northampton member had been committed to custody for outraging Parliament, and released.

  19. Ought he to have set himself titanically against the conventions amid which he lived, and devoted himself either to secret intrigue or to the outraging of the susceptibilities which environed him?

  20. It was such a strange, peremptory knocking--such a careless outraging of the small hours, that for a moment she stood rooted with astonishment and apprehension, staring at herself in the mirror that composed the back of the door.

  21. Something of Diana's recklessness entered into her, only that it did not take the form of outraging the convenances, but just of enjoying life to the full with the permission and approval of the world.

  22. In November of the same year, after the expiration of the thirty so-called days of grace, the bloody tribunal began its revolting and abominable activity, once again outraging and dishonoring human nature.

  23. The worst happenings with the women were not in the big towns, where the presence of white people exercised some restraint, but in villages, where the new troops often behaved in almost incredible fashion, outraging freely.

  24. I hope that every man guilty of torturing, outraging or murder will eventually be brought to justice and dealt with as justice directs.

  25. The stripping, beating, kicking, flogging, and outraging of schoolgirls and young women.

  26. The burning of villages is one matter, the outraging and torturing of women and children another.

  27. For the present purpose the word is intended to include all cases of unnecessary, unprovoked personal cruelty, as well as, of course, the outraging of women.

  28. Men would think little of outraging their own nature by excess, did they not know that the laws of God and man forbid such outrage.

  29. At Brescia he is not outraging the head of our religion.

  30. The vetturino seized the image at once to strike home his instance of the danger of outraging the will of the people.


  31. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "outraging" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.