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Example sentences for "spurning"

Lexicographically close words:
spuriousness; spurlos; spurn; spurne; spurned; spurns; spurre; spurred; spurres; spurring
  1. Keith's car was turning for the trip to Hereford, spurning the dust of the Three Star Ranch forever--and not lamented.

  2. There, spurning half-measures, Ned Richards, who had replaced Appel, sought to drive across.

  3. There was something in his way of spurning them out of their places with his heel, and getting them into the required position, that Clennam thought had an air of cruelty in it.

  4. Why need they thirst for mercy or sympathy that is human, know they not, that they are as justified in spurning the world's great ones, as those great ones are in spurning them.

  5. Or was it as the Foot of one spurning Heaven?

  6. They agreed only in spurning out of the way every mediator who sought to reconcile them.

  7. The Spartan, smiting and spurning the wretched Helot, moves our disgust.

  8. Wherefore darts the mind, With such resistless ardour to embrace 170 Majestic forms; impatient to be free, Spurning the gross control of wilful might; Proud of the strong contention of her toils; Proud to be daring?

  9. Those who remained stood up to the enemies' missiles, spurning flight, returning blow for blow, while those who remained below continued to mine the wall.

  10. Here, weeping, confessing their sins, abandoning their possessions, spurning their wives and fleeing from their children, they took up arms.

  11. I see others spurning idols and pouring out their hopes and fears to a vague image in the mind.

  12. Turnbull sprang up as if spurning the steel car from under his feet.

  13. Turnbull was the first to leap into the garden, with an earth-spurning leap like that of one who could really spread his wings and fly.

  14. Then, spurning courtly offers He left our chieftain's side, And crossing the enclosure With quick and lengthened stride, He passed within his palace gates, And there our wrath defied.

  15. His work well done, the leader stepped aside, Spurning a crown with more than kingly pride, Content to wear the higher crown of worth, While time endures, First Citizen of earth.

  16. The horse leaped, spurning to the ground the Bread and Wine, and the man of blood, swinging his sword high, brought it down upon the head of the sainted minister, who fell cleft to the chin.

  17. A good riddance,' said Claver'se, spurning the body with his foot.

  18. O blind desire unwise Of mortals, spurning thus on earth to creep!

  19. Few were the watchers round his lonely couch, To whom, in sadly soothing words, he spoke Of gentle kindness, and to God his soul In peace committed, spurning mundane moils.

  20. You will die," repeated Cornelia, in ineffable scorn, spurning the wretch with her foot.

  21. Take this wretched boy," cried Valeria, spurning Agias with her foot; "take him away.

  22. There was a noise of a foot spurning the gravel, and when Mr. Hoopdriver reached the doorway, the man in drab was a score of yards Londonward.


  23. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spurning" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abjuration; contempt; contradiction; cut; declination; declining; denial; despite; disapproval; disbelief; discard; disdain; dismissal; disregard; exception; exclusion; humiliation; rebuff; recantation; refusal; rejection; repudiation; repulse; scouting; slight; sneer; sniff; snort; snub; spurn