Sentence examples for to derision from inspiring English sources

Public dismay quickly turned to derision and, eventually, indifference.

He slept through his flight and woke up to derision.

"It's the kind of thing that lends itself to derision.

I opened myself up to derision by ordering the grilled shrimp and watermelon salad.

You have subjected this dress, which my wife made, to derision and to ridicule.

Moreover, we've been subject to derision by those who were elected to defend the public interest.

Noise levels of up to 92 decibels have been recorded, and worse still it's an automatic version of the noise we use to infer derision or to imitate swine.

To speak of "childism" is to court derision, and conjure a nightmarish totem of the bolshy teen threatening to call ChildLine when his parent or teacher scolds him.

In short order, he turned his attention to the audience and began to rain derision on them in the prewar New York accent of a Dead End Kid.

Stones' ABV was further reduced to 3.8 per cent in August 1998, and then to 3.7 per cent a few months later leading to its derision in the Yorkshire Evening Post.

Allow me, instead, to mock Cameron and Clegg's hypocrisy and to heap derision on their U-turn.