Example Sentences

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I find the words hard to write and I know some people will frown at this, but I didn’t go to the funeral – I was too devastated.

From The Guardian • Feb. 25, 2018

You don’t have to fight dirty to get the best result – in fact, judges will frown upon it when making their settlement.

From The Guardian • Jan. 14, 2017

Whereupon the first computer will look over the second computer's shoulder and sniff its perfume, and airline reservations clerks around the country will frown and say, "Sorry, my system just went down."

From Time Magazine Archive

Although the Waldorf will frown on rowdy conventions, it will welcome such dignified assemblages as the General Motors Convention in January and that of the American College of Surgeons in February.

From Time Magazine Archive

And then he will frown and say that it is an evil thing, a slap in the faces of the gods, that the son of Thutra the goldsmith should be a stonecutter’s apprentice.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw