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How to use shunning in a sentence

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On some occasions, he came perilously close to this extremity, shunning his female groupies in truly humiliating ways.
Even the engagement was an act of fierce rebellion and shunning of anachronistic traditions.
He now lives a quiet, reclusive life in rural Cheshire, with wife Christine, shunning the media spotlight.
An increasing number of wise consumers are shunning the shop-rage experience for a simpler, calmer and efficient alternative.
To many folk it sounds as if I'm being lazy, or being a backslider, or shunning the group.
Zellweger again ballooned to a size 14 for the plump part by bingeing on pizza and shunning all exercise.
Meanwhile, seniors are shunning the new prescription coverage ballyhooed by the White House.
Modesty suggests shunning indecent behavior but it also implies bashfulness based on timidity.
Shaken by the first case of mad cow disease in Japan, consumers have been shunning traditional beef dishes such as shabu-shabu.
The welfare mother is considered to be lazy and shiftless, shunning work while collecting welfare and passing on bad values to her children.
In the worst cases, sufferers can shut themselves away indoors, shunning all social contact.
Far from shunning the modern world, as romantics fondly imagined, the Irish traveled great distances to get into it.
Unlike the blackbird, the ring ouzel is usually wary and wild, shunning the neighbourhood of human habitation.
While Wilkinson has been shunning the limelight, Dawson is relishing the attention that has been lavished on him.
Humans generally held him in high contempt, showing disdain for him in some places, utterly shunning him in others.
The country people were shunning the fruit because flies, which settled on dead rabbits with myxomatosis, also alighted on brambles.
To eat alone by choice, shunning friends at mealtimes, would be another loss.
By blogging, I can leap beyond this place and get affirmation for saying things that would only otherwise have gotten me glares and shunning.
The Federal Government was acting in contravention of maritime law by shunning a ship and crew in distress.
An orderly life includes mental as well as physical equilibrium, and shunning all evil thoughts.
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Examples from Classical Literature
I began to see, or thought I did, why Hope had shied at my offer and was now shunning me.
To give, while shunning each extreme, The sparing hand, the over-free, Therein consists, so wise men deem, The virtue Liberality.
Nor does he any longer seem desirous of shunning observation.
His food quest must be limited by shunning poisonous plants.
So far from courting this, however, they seemed desirous of shunning it.
I must confess that I slunk out of the railway station shunning its many lights as if, invariably, failure made an outcast of a man.
He was a man of singular habits, shunning company and very seldom going out.
Hate or no hate, I felt at once that, while shunning the sight of you, I could never succeed in driving away your image.
Talk to me, indeed, about fearing the gods or shunning their anger?
They speak in a low tone because of his daughter, but she sees that they have all drawn off, and that they stand in a group at the other end of the room, shunning him.
And be here again next Thursday,' continued he, shunning her puzzled gaze.
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