derision造句
1. Americans speak with derision of those who are lazy.
2. Her speech was greeted with howls of derision.
3. He gave a snort of derision.
4. She withered him with derision.
5. Her naive attitude provoked their derision.
6. They treated his suggestion with derision.
7. His speech was greeted with derision by opposition leaders.
8. He became an object of universal derision.
9. He gave a hoot of laughter/derision.
10. Her speech was met with hoots/howls of derision.
11. The Church viewed it with derision rather than suspicion.
12. The speech was greeted with derision by opposition leaders.
13. Though greeted with nothing like the derision that met Howarth's six-page statement, the spokesmen encountered a fair degree of scepticism.
14. Even outside all these imaginings, rumor and derision held us in an unwelcome embrace.
15. However, the move has been greeted with derision by many academics.
16. She couldn't cope with that, couldn't face seeing derision in those dark midnight eyes.
17. Such detailed planning would have provoked snorts of derision from Sir Keith.
18. My stories, however, were greeted with disbelief and derision, and I felt increasingly rejected.
19. My chaplain snorts in derision but what does he know?
20. Sharpe translated the crowd's attention as the derision due to a cuckold and, in that misapprehension, his temper snapped.
21. He tried to calm them, but was greeted with shouts of derision.
22. "What a mess they made of it," said Sam with a snort of derision.
23. How many of the popular novels of the past evoke derision rather than appreciation if we read them in too literal a spirit!
24. The dogma is of absolutes, the lifestyle is of attempted purity and the zealot is subject to continuous derision.
25. If this and other resolutions fell well below popular expectations, their implementation since then has invited even greater derision.
26. Raul looked him up and down, eyes opened wide with derision.
27. In Kursk guberniia the telephone system was a subject for derision.
28. The answer-it is such an obvious question-is shouted forth on piping wings of derision.
29. If you did, you risked verbal or physical abuse, derision and expulsion.
30. Labour said it would raise taxes and was subject to the most sustained derision, as well as black propaganda.
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