Example Sentences

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The tensions boiled over in January, when Apple cut off Facebook’s special developer access after TechCrunch reported that a Facebook VPN app had been flouting Apple’s rules.

From Slate • Mar. 8, 2019

How could Zuckerberg and Dorsey not know that Jones had been flouting their rules?

From Slate • Aug. 21, 2018

This came after a protracted battle with the upstart companies themselves, which had been flouting existing insurance and licensure laws.

From Washington Post • Jul. 16, 2015

It was chiefly to save Grizel the pain of thinking that he whom she had been flouting loved her, as she must think if she heard the story of the glove.

From Tommy and Grizel by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)

The drug clerk, thus suddenly put out of countenance by the very bones he had been flouting, stepped back and held his peace; and presently, under cover of Whallen's going, he took his own departure.

From The Wrong Woman by Stewart, Charles D.