Example Sentences

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Spurning candidates with little regard for future relationships could also affect companies’ recruiting.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 22, 2023

Spurning the annual fundraiser — which they’d never done before — was meant to draw attention to their salary demands.

From Washington Post • Feb. 28, 2018

Spurning interest from the Canadian Football League, he returned to school, at North Dakota State, and spent the next year and a half completing his engineering degree.

From New York Times • Nov. 22, 2017

Spurning Japanese KQED-TV, San Francisco’s PBS station, reports on the plight of a local man who has been targeted by microaggressions:

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 18, 2015

Spurning Abramov’s offer of an introduction to the city, Bobby asked to be brought immediately to the Tsentralny Shakhmatny Klub, the Moscow Central Chess Club, said to be one of the finest in the world.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady