Example Sentences

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In the year before his death, Munger made over $50 million from a bet on an out-of-favor industry he had shunned for 60 years.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 27, 2025

The drama comes after one juror told the judge last week that others had been speaking badly outside the courthouse about a fellow juror, and that they had "shunned" the person.

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2025

Advertisers who had shunned the platform in the wake of Musk’s tumultuous acquisition have mostly returned, the billionaire said, without providing details.

From Washington Times • Apr. 12, 2023

Ms. Love’s father had shunned her when she came out, but her mother, by then divorced from her father, had declared, “First to thine own self be true!”

From New York Times • Dec. 1, 2022

As they had shunned my mother in life, so they shunned her now.

From "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" by Avi