How To Use Spurned In A Sentence
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It was a far harder opportunity than the one he had spurned just seconds earlier, when he fired against the bar from five yards.
The Sun
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All attempts by the Socialists to woo him back were spurned. Similar overtures from the right have likewise been rejected.
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A film version of the Carson McCullers play. Frankie Addams, a very boyish articulate 12-year-old girl, is going through an unhappy stage of her life, having been spurned by the neighborhood girls.
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All attempts by the Socialists to woo him back were spurned. Similar overtures from the right have likewise been rejected.
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Like the spurned women of Manhattan, Howard and his fellow rejects should remind themselves they're smart, beautiful, funny, wonderful people who deserve better.
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Ajet's header under pressure had put him in between the two last defenders, but referee Mr L. Williams spurned the chance to play advantage and whistled for the foul on the provider.
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I am conscious even yet of the thrills that pricked my spine, as this monster with nineteen companions spurned the earth in a mad, rushing leap out into space and sailed away into the night to let the inhabitants of German towns know that "frightfulness" was a game at which two could play.
The Fight for the Argonne Personal Experiences of a 'Y' Man
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Numerous valuable prizes have been spurned in their single-minded pursuit of the Arc.
Times, Sunday Times
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Now a third spurned woman has come out to say he strung her along before going off and getting married in secret.
The Sun
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All my requests were spurned by my boss.
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She threw the money down upon the ground, and spurned it with her foot.
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She said that the sergeant and other colleagues tried to destroy her career after she spurned his advances.
Times, Sunday Times
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She spurned his advances
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Masquerading his message as a typical tale of lovers spurned and yearned, he fashioned a vitriolic denouncement of his countrymen, people whom he saw as being more capable of lying or hiding than fighting.
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As the classical Greek tragedy bible dictates, the spurned queen is duty-bound to seek vengeance, and both innocent and guilty are indiscriminately caught up in the inevitable bloodbath and terrifying climax.
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D. Hayworth, taking on John McCain in Arizona, was spurned for an endorsement, and even Ron Paul, the libertarian congressman who has been the emblem of sentiment against big government for decades, has found himself accused of "going Washington.
Has Obama Hit Bottom?
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Each narrator is an archetype - the spurned lover, the heartbreaker, the battered wife - and explores a different wrinkle of the urban African-American female experience.
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Machinery of power makes inherent vice confess mistakes once etherized upon the gurneys, when jettisoned by their attorneys and ridiculed by them, and spurned despite the money they have earned, as money-driven as the clients, with whom they'd had their vice alliance.
Gershon Hepner: inherent Vice
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It was the German keeper who spurned Hearts plenty last season, especially at Ibrox and it was earlier this year that a last-minute tackle from Lorenzo Amoruso prevented Mark de Vries from salvaging a draw and a point in Glasgow.
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He spurned away the basket he uesd just now.
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Spurned wifie, following the iron laws of retribution, sells story to Mail, the paper of contempt for the Today-editing classes.
Archive 2004-07-11
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After having been admired and valued as if its leaves were all emeralds and its buds apples of gold, it was spurned and ridiculed and everywhere cut down as a cumberer of the ground.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860
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The president spurned the tight security surrounding him and adopted a more intimate style of campaigning.
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Let's hope that means an end to the most badly abused aspect of existing law: It forces the discharge of otherwise law-abiding service members whose sexual orientation is revealed by third parties such as jilted partners or spurned would-be lovers of the opposite sex.
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To the world and to herself, she was a no-nonsense, practical woman who scoffed at indulgence and spurned luxury.
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Having scored a superb opener, Dargo spurned the easiest of opportunities in the 23rd minute.
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And on her side gentle thoughts and simple pleasures were odious to Mrs. Becky; they discorded with her; she hated people for liking them; she spurned children and children-lovers.
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Catholic France spurned him, and Jurieu, the great Reformed divine, called his cometary views "atheism," and tried hard to have Protestant Holland condemn him.
A History of the warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom
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The Bush administration spurned direct contacts with Iran a prior commitment by Tehran to halt enrichment.
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Even the name of the war proved contentious; for years the government spurned the term civil war as dignifying the conflict and preferred bandit war.
Bloodlust
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The president spurned the tight security surrounding him and adopted a more intimate style of campaigning.
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She is acting more like a spurned lover than a parent.
Times, Sunday Times
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The spurned woman shows up on the cruise as well, dogging the newlyweds' footsteps.
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Exploring the funeral of a spurned lover, we will be able to linger over the music of certain characters.
Times, Sunday Times
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But most spurned lovers at least get the news in person.
The Sun
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She has spurned potential lovers and judged those close to her harshly.
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Surely this wasn't the cold-hearted harpy that had spurned my affections.
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That way, when you've done the deed, your spurned lover can't burn your stuff in a fit of pique.
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And on her side gentle thoughts and simple pleasures were odious to Mrs. Becky; they discorded with her; she hated people for liking them; she spurned children and children-lovers.
Vanity Fair
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The Scottish Arts Council hoped it would mine a rich seam of latent talent and take risks on fledgling authors spurned by larger companies.
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Mané spurned the chance to give his side some breathing space either side of the interval.
Times, Sunday Times
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Eve spurned Mark's invitation.
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The Microsoft-Spurned Researcher Collective is also challenging what it describes as a combative attitude among software vendors toward independent and third-party security researchers.
EarthWeb IT Management News & Views
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Party members in Cumbria have already spurned the union activist he picked for the seat.
The Sun
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He should have spurned the finesse and settled for down three.
Times, Sunday Times
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No sheriff in Louisiana or spurned widow could ever have tracked him to the Lorelei.
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Then Flosi spurned the money, and said he would not touch a penny of it, and then he said he would only have one of two things: either that Hauskuld should fall unatoned, or they would have vengeance for him.
The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor
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Although spurned by the main distributors, their glossy appearances enabled him to sell them through small, local newsagents.
Times, Sunday Times
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It might have been a different story had they not spurned two gilt-edged chances in the first five minutes.
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Because the publishing industry of the early and middle nineteenth century spurned female writers, Charlotte Bronte chose to work under the androgynous pseudonym Currier Bell.
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Now a third spurned woman has come out to say he strung her along before going off and getting married in secret.
The Sun
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He spurned everything mean and ungenerous, -- was genial in disposition, indeed brimming with mirthfulness, and, in every situation, attracted to himself numerous friends.
Adèle Dubois A Story of the Lovely Miramichi Valley in New Brunswick
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But most spurned lovers at least get the news in person.
The Sun
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Gossip has it that he spurned a lowly government job to preserve his independence.
Times, Sunday Times
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He spurned the Cardinals to sign a four-year contract with the team that swept St. Louis in the World Series.
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Though she was not unattractive, Ben had spurned her several times simply because she always came on too strong and would not desist her coquetry.
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Turton, looking for oarsmen to row his captain's gig, spurned experienced sailors in favour of boys who were fitted out ‘with short little briefs and everything nice’.
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But most spurned lovers at least get the news in person.
The Sun
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He gave his time and labour with a reckless generosity and could be deeply hurt when it was spurned or unappreciated, which was sometimes the case.
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Narcissus was a young man who spurned the nymph Echo and became enamoured of his own reflection.
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Since thou hast spurned the grace of God and made thyself unworthy of the office of preaching, we rightly deprive you of this office.
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But the marvel of his comprehensiveness is his mode of dealing with the vulgar, the vicious, and the low, -- with persons who are commonly spurned as dolts and knaves.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867
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This young girl on the cusp of an (apparently unarranged) marriage is suddenly spurned by her heroic fiancé.
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But most spurned lovers at least get the news in person.
The Sun
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I'm old enough to have signed contracts that date back to the old law that Lessig wants us to return to - an Oz-like paradise when the U.S. went its own manly way in copyright and spurned the effete conventions of the rest of the world.
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Westmoor, for example, which had always spurned Maryport in favour of carting coal over the marginally shorter distance to a staithe at Allonby, was forced to cease operations altogether.
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Which is probably why she spurned his advances.
The Sun
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It was a far harder opportunity than the one he had spurned just seconds earlier, when he fired against the bar from five yards.
The Sun
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Party members in Cumbria have already spurned the union activist he picked for the seat.
The Sun
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His financial problems were solved, but he was spurned by the art establishment.
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Although spurned by the main distributors, their glossy appearances enabled him to sell them through small, local newsagents.
Times, Sunday Times
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Having spurned the fleshpots of Glasgow, novelist Carole Morin is enjoying the sybaritic delights of London.
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The Scottish experience in the past half-century has been a patchwork of success, spurned opportunities and downright failure.
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Moz also looks elsewhere for love but his advances are spurned.
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The Bush administration spurned direct contacts with Iran without a prior by Tehran to halt enrichment.
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Ellis plays the part of the young lover spurned by his mistress.
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It was a far harder opportunity than the one he had spurned just seconds earlier, when he fired against the bar from five yards.
The Sun
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She is acting more like a spurned lover than a parent.
Times, Sunday Times
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Forced to flee her homeland because she spurned the advances of a king and slew him instead, she rode west across the Turanian steppes and into the shadowed mists of legendry. — - The Nemedian Chronicles
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Alarmed by the turn of events the governments behave like spurned lovers.
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You led me to believe you enjoyed my company, then arrogantly spurned my proposal without even admiring the ring.
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She said that the sergeant and other colleagues tried to destroy her career after she spurned his advances.
Times, Sunday Times
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She's not in the best of moods, having been spurned by her lover.
The Sun
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Which is probably why she spurned his advances.
The Sun
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Brokers increasingly have been spurned by big retail banks, which rely on branches and building salaried sales forces, says Guy Cecala, publisher of the trade paper Inside Mortgage Finance.
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Kahane wants nothing to do with the studio suit who has spurned him for so long, and storms out.
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While most countries embarked upon inflation and on a policy of easy money, the literary champions of inflationism were still spurned as ‘monetary cranks.’
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All attempts by the Socialists to woo him back were spurned. Similar overtures from the right have likewise been rejected.
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She spurned my offers of help.
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Matlock spurned several easy chances to secure an even more emphatic win.
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Surely this wasn't the cold-hearted harpy that had spurned my affections.
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And in innumerable other minutes of the 90, they were carved apart by a Kilmarnock team who spurned so many opportunities it was barely credible.
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The Scottish Arts Council hoped it would mine a rich seam of latent talent and take risks on fledgling authors spurned by larger companies.
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As the tambour (drum) was a spurned instrument, only the triangle could bring a strong support destined to accentuate the rhythms of the accordion dance.
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Even the plebeians are people and should not be spurned or provoked.
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Johnny gets angry texts from a spurned lover - but these nasty signs never metastasise dramatically into a situation that confronts or challenges Johnny.
The Guardian World News
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Though she spurned her hometown, and the South Side particularly, as a cradle of bougie Negroes, her ties to that magical city still pulled me in.
American Girl
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Sales to addicts were rationalized by the realization that spurned customers could simply go to another druggist - or a street dealer.
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Familiar properties of the horror genre aren't spurned.
Times, Sunday Times
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Spurned lovers and ex-wives were nabbed making obscene calls thanks to a new high-tech tracing system.
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Much of the American public — once Paine's base of support — spurned him after his release from French prison, when he publicly blamed George Washington for not having helped secure his release.
Tom Paine, Warts and All
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The president spurned the tight security surrounding him and adopted a more intimate style of campaigning.
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Gilliam, whose anarchic wackiness is sharply caught by Sam Alexander, is an American with an Oedipally rebellious grudge against the country that spurned him and a gratitude for the freedom of expression nurtured by English public-service broadcasting.
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She's not in the best of moods, having been spurned by her lover.
The Sun
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One day he inadvertently bathed in the spring of the naiad he had spurned.
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He should have spurned the finesse and settled for down three.
Times, Sunday Times
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Pakistan spurned the vote because it wants a plebiscite to decide rule between India and itself.
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Mayobridge spurned another goal chance on the seventh minute when a beautifully placed high ball from Benny Coulter fell to Ronan Sexton.
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Exploring the funeral of a spurned lover, we will be able to linger over the music of certain characters.
Times, Sunday Times
