Sentence Examples

1. Why has Brigham Young, our chief, been imprisoned, in contempt of all justice?
2. At best, they were held in contempt and at worst they were shunned or beaten up.
3. Almost perfect, except he was staring at me with cold, hard eyes and a look of contempt, which doused my hormones, akin to waking up to a cold shower and a hangover.
4. I can only assume Maria wants to get back at her husband whom she clearly holds in contempt.
5. He gazed a moment in contempt at Jack and then turned to Lance.
6. They would shave off her hair, feed her on a scanty allowance of rice, treat her with contempt she would be looked upon as an unclean creature, and would die in some corner, like a scurvy dog.
7. Nothing in his life, not even his arraignment, had prepared him for being treated with such malice and contempt.
8. I turned from them in contempt, and, gazing upward at the earth so lately left, and left perhaps for ever, beheld it like a huge, dull, copper shield, about two degrees in diameter, fixed immovably in the heavens overhead, and tipped on one of its edges with a crescent border of the most brilliant gold.
9. It was well known that the Master treated his bastard sibling with little more than contempt, and Jack had no doubt there would be a good audience for any argument.
10. People stared at me in open contempt as I went past them.