Sentence examples for quite indignant from inspiring English sources

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The agent was quite indignant when he called at the "Outlook" office to find that the order was not forthcoming.

He was enjoying himself, and became quite indignant with the Speaker, who cut him off: "The Prime Minister has finished his answer".

"One of my respondents got quite indignant that I'd even suggest that something as sophisticated as a chimpanzee would eat an overripe fruit," Dr. Milton said.

Chatting to a hiker in Scotland, I explained my route and he was quite indignant: "But you look so ordinary!" Though falling short in the charm stakes, he was absolutely right: I don't look the type.

He was quite indignant when an expat neighbour of mine was prepared to pay €50 for a cubic metre of firewood, when the going rate is closer to €40.

One lady became quite indignant, and referred me again to her photocopied article, as though beauty and accuracy were two opposing forces; or as though accuracy, unknown to me, had won, and was the new, democratised version of literary merit.

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Indeed, our indignant interlocutor is quite right.

After two days Eichmann returned it, visibly indignant; "That is quite an unwholesome book [Das ist aber ein sehr unerfreuliches Buch]," he told his guard).

In fact, although the lineup was quite explicitly political, there was nothing especially indignant in anyone's tone.

Don't rule out the dead-eyed resolve of May coming across quite badly compared to JC getting all indignant about the NHS, grammar schools and so on.

Don't rule out the dead-eyed resolve of May coming across quite badly compared to JC getting all indignant about the NHS, grammar schools, and so on.

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