Example Sentences

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Having just recently arrived in town from Tulane University, newcomer Dannen may not have known he was slighting a cherished, 123-year-old regional sports tradition, but UW President Ana Mari Cauce understood.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 24, 2023

Biden appeared to carefully consider his words to avoid inflaming concerns that he was slighting Reade.

From Washington Post • May 1, 2020

But the notion that Kerry, of all people, was slighting the French is a bit incroyable.

From Washington Post • Jan. 12, 2015

He has always gone his own way; when he was a teenager, and an Austrian, he and his father decided that the Austrian ski hierarchy was slighting him.

From Time Magazine Archive

Phœbe Chiffinch, I am glad to add, was jilted by her uninteresting lover, who little knew what a fortune he was slighting.

From Checkmate by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan