Sentence examples for could be insulted from inspiring English sources

I could be insulted, but I'm not.

In the stadium, thousands could speak the forbidden Catalan; Real Madrid, the perceived representatives of the state, could be insulted and beaten.

This wasn't a true story for me, but if it were for somebody, they could be insulted if you insulted their grandfather who died in a tragic car accident).

"But I couldn't be insulted because at the time, I hadn't heard a lot of the acts that they mentioned.

A week after the Charlie Hebdo attack, pope Francis condemned killing in God's name but warned religion could not be insulted.

And so we got a new strain of the crossword, suitable for Top People who had, in the words of former Times nabob Richard Browne, "graduated from governess to public school to Oxford and Cambridge", whose intelligence could not be insulted by anything so simple as a game based on mere definitions.

In fact, if you're a successful small business owner you could very well be insulted by the idea.

The archbishop's later missions took him to Nigeria, from where he twice phoned his wife to ask her to pray for him as he felt he was in mortal danger, and where he was once told that the price on his head stood at $30. "I couldn't decided whether to be insulted or afraid," he said later.

When readers (and not only Christians) criticized Tyson for dissing one of the two holiest days of the Christian calendar, he feigned surprise that anyone could've been insulted by his words, protesting that he was merely drawing attention to Newton's birthday.

It's hard to imagine that Lil Wayne, who has boasted of being so high that he "could eat a star," was insulted.

"I was insulted I couldn't make that decision for my son, who I wanted to die with dignity," she said.