Example Sentences

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Next, mention hurtful incidents, reasons that family and friends might have disliked your partner and red flags you may have ignored.

From Washington Post • Mar. 17, 2023

Over the years, players have been significantly more enthusiastic about Olympic participation than the owners, who have disliked disrupting their season.

From New York Times • Dec. 15, 2021

Given her sweeping resume and penchant for outsized and off-beat characters, Leachman said she had only one credo: “Since my childhood I have disliked rules and for the most part have avoided them.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 27, 2021

She surely would have disliked Doris Lessing, a one-time Communist organizer who spent her life in pursuit of the political and sexual freedoms that Harriet defines herself against.

From The New Yorker • May 11, 2019

I have disliked her since my father’s dinner-table rants began, but now I hate her.

From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth