Example Sentences

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I try insulting them; they don’t even know I am insulting them. 

From Tommy and Co. by Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)

But I am insulting Katie by pleading with you.

From The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1 by Various

So don't imagine, Félicie, that I am insulting you when I offer you marriage.

From A Mummer's Tale by Roche, Charles E.

Thus I too am insulting the national misery.

From Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) by Morley, John