Sentence Examples

1. Instead, his efforts to make himself understood were met with incomprehension and derision.
2. I concluded that he laughed in derision of my efforts, confident of his own resources.
3. When he perceived again that it was not possible for the army to be defeated, he tried to bethink him of a fine tale which he could take back to his regiment, and with it turn the expected shafts of derision.
4. Few words were exchanged, and the mild terms of derision thrown at Skull when he entered the village were so unusual for the laconic people that the happenings would likely pass into legend, hardly to be believed.
5. Here was an eminent eighteenth-century antiquarian advocating the existence of ghosts, at the cost of exposing himself to derision from his contemporaries.
6. He regarded me with the exact same mixture of suspicion and derision as Detective Parks had.
7. The large black stallion let out a snort of derision, his ears shifting this way and that as they entered a village where log houses stood on either side of the hard-packed dirt road.
8. Maybe him and his likes, civil servants, were having a hard time caught in its whirlpool, suffering both in-creases and cutbacks but also, justly or unjustly, pub-lic derision.
9. It would now be he who could laugh and shoot the shafts of derision.