Example Sentences

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Graham said selling NFT albums gives her a more direct connection to fans than streaming, which smaller artists have despised for years because of paltry royalties.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2022

Old families of nobles may have despised the “nouveau riche,” but they still married them if they needed the money.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

Once he got near them, in a work capacity, he could have despised them for giving him professional attention because he was powerful.

From The Guardian • Sep. 8, 2019

It’s a story Lovecraft would have despised, and that’s a good thing, Keith Phipps writes.

From Slate • Dec. 18, 2018

Heaven only knows how she must have despised her pale rat of a cowering mistress.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver