Example Sentences

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Fran Drescher, former star of "The Nanny" and the president of SAG-AFTRA, said studios' responses to the actors' concerns had been "insulting and disrespectful."

From Reuters • Jul. 13, 2023

Ryan now realizes that during that confrontation, he had been insulting voters without realizing it.

From Washington Times • Aug. 19, 2014

Suspicion never would fall on you anyhow; you are too far above it, and Dave had been insulting people right and left the last year.

From Mrs. Balfame A Novel by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn

For a whole month he had been insulting him with impunity, and had so far been unable to make him lose patience.

From The Possessed (The Devils) by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

They say, for instance, London is too hideous for words, and then they look at me defiantly, as though they had been insulting some personal defect of mine and meant to brazen it out.

From Christine by Cholmondeley, Alice