Sentence examples for insult from inspiring English sources

Adding insult to injury, their opponents' winner was set up by a player in an offside position.

As a further insult, London bristles with two-storey Victorian terraces that are a wildly inefficient use of such coveted space.

To add insult to injury for the Saints, Lee Mair, playing against his former team, was sent off following the goal.

The decision for the board of the Biennale is an appalling insult to them".

There was no cabinet job offered when Mrs Thatcher won office in 1979, except some vague talk of the Washington embassy, which he took (rightly) as an insult.

"We are not like other nations who tolerate insult to their holy personality".

The idea seems to be: don't insult Ukip but pull them back to the real world and sober them up to the Labour threat.

"If you live in a slum in Nairobi, seeing development money pouring into a luxury block of flats is an insult".

Dorne, a part of the Seven Kingdoms, sends the second son of its ruling family to attend the upcoming Royal Wedding, as a calculated insult.

The Italian was charged following an incident during the 1-1 draw between the teams in October, where he was alleged to have directed a racial insult at Jerome.

"How dare you insult Rome!" begins one, but, of course, in Italian, because the writer is obviously a big elitist, showing off the fact that she can speak Italian.