Shunned Sentence Examples

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  • He.d saved the Immortals that shunned him.

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  • Historians of political thought have largely shunned the work.

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  • Dalits do the jobs shunned by the rest of society.

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  • They held that what we call passion is a morbid condition of the rational soul, involving erroneous judgment as to what is to be sought or shunned.

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  • All share in the administration of even Irish affairs was denied him; every politician shunned him; and his society hardly included a single author or wit.

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  • It made me cry that I, who so short a time past was one of their ranks, is now shunned by a member of even this, the lowest profession.

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  • He 's even shunned by the kids at the fat table at school, friendless and alone.

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  • Generally, ballet flats should be shunned when it comes to evening wear.

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  • On one hand, the international community has shunned the military regime that took control of the government by force in 1988.

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  • Jewish workers were often shunned by their English fellows.

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  • For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.

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  • Well, almost; PUT will have been shunned in favor of POST, which all Web browsers actually contain support for.

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  • Used at one time as a burial ground, it was shunned by people even during the day-time for fear of ghosts.

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  • The game has been largely ignored and shunned by fans of the series, however, due to poor gameplay mechanics, controls, and camera movements.

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  • But, on the other hand, the vital spirits cause a movement in the gland by which the mind perceives the affection of the organs, learns that something is to be loved or hated, admired or shunned.

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  • Crowley was a leading alpinist of the day but was shunned by the Alpine club and took a positive delight in the bizarre.

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  • Perhaps it was just an effete London thing shunned by real men who were into spanners, grease and steam.

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  • Overweight children also suffer from psychological distress, particularly when teased or shunned by peers.

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  • They are sometimes shunned by peers due to their impulsive and intrusive behavior.

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  • Even though online dating was shunned in the past, it is now one of the top ways to meet someone special.

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  • The 'monster' wasn't a monster until he was shunned and reviled by first his creator and then by everyone he met.

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  • He lived a very retired life, and saw little or nothing of society; when he did mingle in it, his dogmatism and pugnacity caused him to be generally shunned.

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  • The role of IT co-ordinator is shunned by staff with a Luddite tendency and often foisted onto an unwilling member.

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  • The 5th Duke was an eccentric recluse, who shunned visitors.

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  • Agents who previously shunned formality can now be expected to seek formal agreements.

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  • He's even shunned by the kids at the fat table at school, friendless and alone.

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  • And finally The Real Meat Company has always shunned sponsorship.

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  • Many Pietists soon maintained that the new birth must always be preceded by agonies of repentance, and that only a regenerated theologian could teach theology, while the whole school shunned all common worldly amusements, such as dancing, the theatre, and public games.

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  • All their faces looked dejected, and they all shunned one another's eyes--only a de Beausset could fail to grasp the meaning of what was happening.

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  • The Welsh band, who have shunned the media spotlight, released their last single The Masses Against the Classes in January 2000.

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  • Fruits - Dried fruits such as figs, dates, apricots, often shunned by Westerners due to the high sugar content, are eaten in abundance.

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  • Cary Guffey is one of the few child actors who shunned the media spotlight and instead turned to a "normal" life away from the cameras.

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  • While employers once shunned job applicants with online credentials, e-learning is rapidly becoming more acceptable.

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  • In 533 the command of the expedition against the Vandal kingdom in Africa, a perilous office, which the rest of the imperial generals shunned, was conferred on Belisarius.

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  • When he returned to the main room, Harrigan had left to talk to a class of grade-school children, a job at which he excelled, much to the pleasure of the others who shunned playing Officer Friendly.

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  • Their anti-sacerdotalism appears to have been their chief offence, for the inquisitors admit that they were puritanically careful in word and conduct, and shunned all levity.

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  • Relatives and friends who once shunned him, hugged and kissed him.

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  • He retreated to London, where he felt safe, though he continued to be an object of "troublesome attention," and even the fellows of the Royal Society shunned him.

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  • They were shunned and hated; were allotted separate quarters in towns, called cagoteries, and lived in wretched huts in the country distinct from the villages.

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  • After one or two petty encounters with the mob they were withdrawn, either because their temper was uncertain or because their commanders shunned responsibility.

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  • Also a divorced woman was shunned by society and treated as an outcast.

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  • It was in these circumstances that he returned to Rome; but most of the clergy, suspecting his orthodoxy, and believing him to have had some share in the removal of his predecessor, shunned his fellowship. He enjoyed, however, the support of Narses, and, after he had publicly purged himself of complicity in Vigilius's death in the church of St Peter, he met with toleration in his own immediate diocese.

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  • The root idea seems to be that something is marked off as to be shunned, with the added hint of a mystic sanction or penalty enforcing the avoidance.

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  • In consequence, his lecture-room was thronged with people of all sorts, anxious to hear a man who shunned the barren obscurities of the alchemists, and did not regard the quest of the philosopher's stone and the elixir of life as the sole end of his science.

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  • It advanced steadily under Gregory XVI., and, though it was at first shunned by Pius IX., it secured his entire confidence after his return from Gaeta in 1849, and obtained from him a special breve erecting the staff of its literary journal, the Civiltd Cattolica, into a perpetual college under the general of the Jesuits, for the purpose of teaching and propagating the faith in its pages.

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  • Accustomed to being shunned by people, she'd almost felt normal around the stranger who seemed unaffected by her magic.

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  • By public disputation and private conference, as well as by preaching, he enforced his doctrines, both ecclesiastical and political, and shrank no more from urging what he conceived to be the truth upon the most powerful officers than he did from instructing the meanest followers of the camp. Cromwell disliked his loquacity and shunned his society; but Baxter having to preach before him after he had assumed the Protectorship, chose for his subject the old topic of the divisions and distractions of the church, and in subsequent interviews not only opposed him about liberty of conscience, but spoke in favour of the monarchy he had subverted.

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  • No sooner did copies of the book reach Paris than he found himself shunned by his former associates, and though he was himself so little conscious of disloyalty that he was forward to present a manuscript copy " engrossed in vellum in a marvellous fair hand" 3 to the young king of the Scots (who, after the defeat at Worcester, escaped to Paris about the end of October), he was denied the royal presence when he sought it shortly afterwards.

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  • That evils are to be shunned, because they are of the devil and from the devil.

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