Example Sentences

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High in the stands, German leader Adolf Hitler watched on disapprovingly.

From BBC • Jul. 16, 2024

I’m not here to collect sympathy, convert you to the church of AA, nor frown disapprovingly over proceedings from some moral high ground.

From Salon • Nov. 28, 2023

Szasz transferred Williams’s setting of New Orleans to what Nelson Pressley in The Washington Post described disapprovingly as “a flavorless gray anyplace.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 24, 2023

The world was suddenly one big party at which everyone responsible talked disapprovingly about “Ozempic face” in judgment and horror at the idea of women taking these new “diet drugs.”

From Slate • Mar. 9, 2023

They exchanged a dark look, and Madam Pomfrey clucked disapprovingly.

From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling