Sentence examples for shun from inspiring English sources

Taylor Swift fans who pre-ordered her latest album 1989 are waking up today to a notification from Apple that it's available to download from iTunes – the latest high-profile album to shun streaming services like Spotify in favour of Apple's music downloads store.

Every family needs someone to shun and, happily, I am that person.

This tension between cowardly self-interest and resistance is the bass motif above which Maupassant composes a sour fugue of hypocrisy and cruelty, as a group of Rouennais notables exploit then shun the prostitute of the title, whose hospitality they had previously enjoyed.

The only field more self-confidently but just as regularly wrong as economics is nutrition, whose recommendations to shun butter/margarine or red meat/carbohydrates regularly reverse themselves.

Over a chintzy soundtrack, the voiceover to one recounted: "They decide to shun social media prophecy and return to musical naturism – just the two of them and some instruments and actual live contact with real people, in the form of intimate gigs in dirty places".

isalane I shun from the term "British" as it's used as a political and not geographical word.

In the early 1960s, multiple cases of childhood leukaemia and adult cancers began to appear, a shocking novelty because Mormons, who shun alcohol and tobacco, typically have low cancer rates.