Example Sentences

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Then came the daily announcements and receipts documenting scandalous spending outrages, not all of which lived up to their original billing.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 25, 2025

It reveals an American elite blinded to outrages occurring in plain view, due to the clubby nature of high society.

From Slate • Nov. 20, 2025

In an interview with historian Brian Harrison in the 1970s, Jessie recalled the so-called "pillar box outrages" were planned "with military precision."

From BBC • Apr. 6, 2025

It moves so fast that all the excesses, all the outrages seem to be par for the course.

From Salon • Aug. 8, 2024

I guess I had the sense that something shameful on my part—I don’t know what—invited these pedagogic outrages.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly