Example Sentences

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That’s not to say the studio is spurning smartwatches altogether; Lovelady acknowledges that Minus-8 could eventually move in that direction.

From The Verge • Nov. 28, 2014

Allen, however, is spurning all dates as he completes his newest movie, a drama about the 1950s Hollywood blacklists entitled The Front.

From Time Magazine Archive

How my heart in its terror is spurning my breast, And my eyes, like the wheels of a chariot, roll round!

From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

But cruel Fate my hopes is spurning, And winds blow against my sail; While out Death my life is burning, I'm still floating with the gale!

From The Sylvan Cabin A Centenary Ode on the Birth of Lincoln and Other Verse by Jones, Edward Smyth