How To Use Shunning In A Sentence

  • Tachihi is one example of how investors in Japan have thrown out the baby with the bath water - shunning even highly-liquid, ungeared, and soundly-capitalised companies with good potential.
  • The ministry circulated a press release - shunning the hesitation and obscurity that usually takes it a lot longer to respond - saying the man was hurt in an explosion generated by combustible trash he kept in his house.
  • He now lives a quiet, reclusive life in rural Cheshire, with wife Christine, shunning the media spotlight.
  • Shunning the media and ducking a direct interaction will only cause more damage to the system, if it has not already, with the athletes flopping badly.
  • ADD andsee also anxiety; depressionpublic places, social skills in benefits ofbig picture vs. details andchallenges tophysiological needs andsocial contracts andthree Ps oftransitions andpublic space punctuality punishment banishment ashyperactivity andimpulsivity andineffectiveness ofshunning as“putting out the candle,” It's So Much Work to Be Your Friend
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  • He shrugged unresponsively and lifted his arm free of hers, shunning the contact. The Glory Game
  • He now lives a quiet, reclusive life in rural Cheshire, with wife Christine, shunning the media spotlight.
  • He begs for food and wears only a loincloth and a cloak, shunning the townspeople and becoming a wretched figure with unkempt hair and long fingernails.
  • I guess shunning is much more civilized. datingjesus Who gets to say who’s a Catholic? « Dating Jesus
  • By blogging, I can leap beyond this place and get affirmation for saying things that would only otherwise have gotten me glares and shunning.
  • Ms. Walker eschewed fashion traditions, never showing her clothes in catwalk shows and usually shunning the limelight, but she was named couture designer of the year at the 1990 British Fashion Awards. Catherine Walker, Designer Of Princess Diana's Most Famous Dresses, Dies At 65
  • SHOPPERS are shunning milk in bottles and cartons for cheaper bags, it emerged yesterday. The Sun
  • Their father warned of the emptiness of fame, advice they took to heart by shunning publicity. Times, Sunday Times
  • With the air of a subordinate grieved at the necessity of being a messenger of ill tidings, and while conscientiously determined to be frank, yet equally resolved upon shunning overstatement, Claggart, at this invitation or rather summons to disburthen, spoke up. Billy Budd
  • Not surprisingly, the initial aims of the association mainly concerned matters of mutual accord in the areas of trade and economy, shunning politics and the military.
  • In what lobbyists are calling a harbinger of possible upheaval on Capitol Hill, many who make a living influencing government have gone from mostly shunning Democrats to aggressively recruiting them as lobbyists over the past six months or so. Archive 2006-08-13
  • Meanwhile, seniors are shunning the new prescription coverage ballyhooed by the White House.
  • Consumers can help, too, by patronising their local shops and shunning the multiples.
  • THOUSANDS of youngsters are shunning university to serve apprenticeships, rail bosses claim. The Sun
  • Shunning is a non-action -- to shun is to avoid, not to interact. Janice Harper: A Reason (and Season) to Stop Shunning
  • Modesty suggests shunning indecent behavior but it also implies bashfulness based on timidity.
  • The third member of the group targeted for shunning is Carl Paladino, the Republican candidate for Governor. Jerry Kremer: Shunning: The New GOP Mantra
  • The country people were shunning the fruit because flies, which settled on dead rabbits with myxomatosis, also alighted on brambles.
  • To many folk it sounds as if I'm being lazy, or being a backslider, or shunning the group.
  • Consumers can help, too, by patronising their local shops and shunning the multiples.
  • The country people were shunning the fruit because flies, which settled on dead rabbits with myxomatosis, also alighted on brambles.
  • She still spent most of her time shunning female attire and dressing mainly in male military clothes.
  • Shunning the press box for the melee of the terraces, he follows Bobby Robson's team on their way to a World Cup semi-final at Italia 90.
  • I feel...' `Don't tell me, I don't want to know,' said Weber, sitting up and shunning him with a hand. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
  • While Wilkinson has been shunning the limelight, Dawson is relishing the attention that has been lavished on him.
  • Humans generally held him in high contempt, showing disdain for him in some places, utterly shunning him in others.
  • An orderly life includes mental as well as physical equilibrium, and shunning all evil thoughts.
  • _I answer that, _ As stated above (A. 1), fear is a sin through being inordinate, that is to say, through shunning what ought not to be shunned according to reason. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
  • Like the shrug, like culottes I don’t think they’re called culottes, though, in this year’s incarantion, like the ballon skirt that have all returned to the runway from my middle school melodrama to punish me for shunning fashionable them for “classic” OP parachute pants and Izod shirts, so also does food go to retro comfort food, fondue, and cupcakes. Seoul is to Food What Moscow is to Fashion Week – Tofu-Ya
  • ↑ This practice is usually referred to as shunning, but because Bahá'ís can conduct business transactions with Covenant breakers, the practice is not same as shunning by Amish and some other groups, which is total. Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • He also avoided speculation, shunning comment on whether the soldiers would have survived had they been using a different vehicle. Times, Sunday Times
  • Their father warned of the emptiness of fame, advice they took to heart by shunning publicity. Times, Sunday Times
  • The Federal Government was acting in contravention of maritime law by shunning a ship and crew in distress.
  • Now Chrysler must contend with a brutal market place, with American largely shunning new cars.
  • Miss Pinshon and the overseer agreed in shunning it. Daisy
  • There were allegations of exclusivism, hurtful practices like shunning, as well as an overbearing doctrine of personal sin.
  • CRUZ: You know, he ` s been shunning comparisons to Usher, but it ` s kind of inevitable, because his hit song, "Run It," it ` s a crunked-up club hit that is reminiscent of Usher ` s monster "Yeah!" from last year. CNN Transcript Nov 28, 2005
  • She believes shunning the aguayo would be like ignoring the family's indigenous roots. NPR Topics: News
  • Experts say genes play a major role in the habit of shunning new foods - or food neophobia. The Sun
  • Here is Marx the future socialist, unsocially shunning his school fellows while his mental acrobatics charm Ludwig von Westphalen, a much older man of a much higher social position.
  • Minimalism fiction stripped to verbal basics, shunning flourish and style, and McGurl's alternative category of miniaturism, are not so much genuine artistic movements as system grotesqueries imitating theory, creative writing's opposite ravenous beast. Anis Shivani: Can Writing Be Taught? The Systems-Theory Rationalizations Of An Insider
  • But my simple shunning of her had given the lesser folk of the keep permission to be cruel and callous to her. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
  • His shunning of the rest for the more difficult shots demonstrated a confidence not normal for such an arena, while he went for pots where mere mortals would have sought safety sanctuary.
  • Investors have also been shunning the bonds issued by big lenders, amid fears that they will not get their money back. Times, Sunday Times
  • Earth has burrowed into itself, shunning space exploration for centuries, walling itself away from nature and other planets in enclosed cities that people are terrified to leave. Interplanetary Manifest Destiny
  • But Cambodians voted with their wallets, shunning the Cambodian riel and demanding dollars. The Cambodian Case for Dollarization
  • The cats would be livid, showing their displeasure by sulkily shunning their food and refusing to climb into bed for a goodnight cuddle. SANDS OF TIME
  • Zellweger again ballooned to a size 14 for the plump part by bingeing on pizza and shunning all exercise.
  • The designer eschewed fashion traditions, never showing her clothes in catwalk shows and usually shunning the limelight, but was named couture designer of the year at the 1990 British Fashion Awards. Catherine Walker, Designer to Princess Diana, Dies
  • Modesty suggests shunning indecent behavior but it also implies bashfulness based on timidity.
  • Even the engagement was an act of fierce rebellion and shunning of anachronistic traditions.
  • Jesus, God in the flesh and understood as perfectly holy, was comfortable with the worst of people in a society which believed holy men demonstrated that holiness by shunning impurity and demonstrably impure people.
  • The War Industries Board, though shunning full-scale state control, exercised unprecedented powers in organizing and stimulating production and superintended remarkable feats of miltary-industrial output.
  • He begs for food and wears only a loincloth and a cloak, shunning the townspeople and becoming a wretched figure with unkempt hair and long fingernails.
  • To eat alone by choice, shunning friends at mealtimes, would be another loss.
  • However, in shunning the salary offered by a newspaper and opting for the freelance route, this gentleman has put more time and attnetion into equipment knowledge than R.O.I. (return on investment) knowledge. Manage your money
  • The welfare mother is considered to be lazy and shiftless, shunning work while collecting welfare and passing on bad values to her children.
  • Shunning pigeonholes doesn't necessarily make for earth-shattering innovation.
  • Whenever I start working on a new design for a website, I always end up shunning the old design still visible to the public, on the basis that it's soon going to become yesterday's money.
  • Operators are shunning Playboy's Spice Platinum, a new group of channels with graphic hard-core fare.
  • A global take on the unisex galabiya, a loose-fitting outer garment, designed to protect wearers from the sun as well as sand and wind, might conceivably gain popularity among UV-shunning followers of fashion outside the Sahara and the Arabian Peninsula. The English Is Coming!
  • The first step was shunning sugar and weaning herself from wheat, an experience Beals reckons is similar to the experience of withdrawing from drugs.

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