Sentence examples for scorn at from inspiring English sources

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It has spat scorn at its critics.

That is Zink's scorn at work: she knows what makes people look.

The public and the media express genuine scorn at the endless party battles.

"Look at him!" cried the houseboy, pointing with scorn at his brother.

Trump, of course, while claiming to mock élites, aims much of his scorn at the relatively vulnerable.

In the square, the dancers bite their knuckles (anger) and swipe their chins (scorn) at one another.

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Mr. Taylor, 55, has played the starring role during 14 years of civil war, and is scorned at home and abroad.

In his 1993 book "The Culture of Disbelief," Carter argued that religious Americans were under siege -- in the language of the old Negro spiritual, " 'buked and scorned" at every turn.

Creation is all about biology, a subject that I scorned at school, both because it was abysmally taught and because I believed, along with Ernest Rutherford, that "physics is the only real science.

Ma's hero, Dai Wei, grows up hating his father because he spent years in a "reform through labour" camp, meaning Dai is scorned at school and his mother alienated by the party; only when, after his father's death, he finds diaries describing the starvation in these camps, the torture, the small acts of heroism, does he understand what made his father the broken man he knew.

"Efforts to cobble together a Third Front can be scorned at, but hardly be wished away.

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