How to Use flout in a Sentence

flout

verb
  • Despite repeated warnings, they have continued to flout the law.
  • Penalties would be harsh for any business that flouts the rules.
    — Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Beijing and Riyadh have been keen to flout their growing ties.
    — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 7 Aug. 2023
  • And how hard is Ohio coming down on sportsbooks that flout the rules?
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 3 Jan. 2023
  • Trump wouldn’t have been the first president to flout a court order.
    — Jack Goldsmith, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2017
  • Officials are yet to decide on penalties for those who flout the ban.
    — Sugam Pokharel and Julia Hollingsworth, CNN, 22 Aug. 2019
  • If true, the evasion flouts Internet norms in place for more than three decades.
    — Jon Brodkin, ArsTechnica, 4 Aug. 2025
  • But the North has long flouted the deal, testing its first bomb 11 years ago.
    — The Economist, 7 Sep. 2017
  • This isn’t the first time a tourist in Italy has flouted the rules while sightseeing this year.
    — Erin Clements, Peoplemag, 7 Dec. 2023
  • Is her reply a subtle (or perhaps not so subtle) way of flouting the rules?
    — Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 25 July 2018
  • But several visits to the parks in recent weeks revealed that some guests flout the rules.
    — Randy Diamond, ExpressNews.com, 22 Aug. 2020
  • Definitely feeling some freedom to flout the rules due to the shut down.
    — Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The state is slow to discipline doctors even when they are accused of flouting board rules.
    — Stephen Hobbs, Sun-Sentinel.com, 27 Oct. 2017
  • This was a concerted effort to flout the law to escape justice.
    — Matthew Rodriguez, CBS News, 20 Nov. 2025
  • Though these audiences were still required to wear masks, many flouted the order.
    — Nancy Bristow, Time, 1 May 2020
  • Williams has made a practice of painting women who flout societal rules, but here the rules have changed.
    — New York Times, 28 Oct. 2021
  • If anything, wouldn’t a concession like this encourage more folks in the stands to flout the rules?
    — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 20 Sep. 2017
  • Others have been accused of flouting some of their most basic duties in the courtroom.
    — Joseph Cranney, ProPublica, 27 Nov. 2019
  • Johnson taunted his opponents in the ring and flouted his wealth outside of it.
    — Jared Bahir Browsh, The Conversation, 10 Nov. 2025
  • When one side regularly flouts norms, the other side pays the price for striving to uphold them.
    — Alex Shephard, New Republic, 24 Jan. 2018
  • Parents who flout the ban are fined up to 10 chickens or one goat, a hefty sum in rural Malawi.
    — Abigail Haworth, Marie Claire, 19 Mar. 2018
  • Birx was just the latest public official who appeared to flout their own guidelines.
    — Sam Dorman, Fox News, 22 Dec. 2020
  • Yet a trip to nearly any shop in New Delhi makes clear how widely the ban is flouted.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, 4 June 2018
  • All of these events flout my state’s current guideline not to combine more than three households at a gathering.
    — New York Times, 29 Dec. 2020
  • Norway’s team had been planning for weeks to flout the rules to point out the double standard for female athletes.
    — New York Times, 20 July 2021
  • When public agencies flout the public records law with such impunity, newsrooms are forced to turn to the courts.
    — Richard Ruelas, The Arizona Republic, 7 July 2021
  • The problem began with the nature of the statute Johnson had flouted.
    — Michael Kazin, The New Republic, 10 June 2019
  • Drivers constantly flout those rules, or evade them by holding a phone between the legs, or just below the chin.
    — Mike Lindblom, The Seattle Times, 18 May 2017
  • Aurora’s punishment for retailers that flout its new law will be tougher than the state’s.
    — John Aguilar, Denver Post, 24 Feb. 2026
  • But the judge ruled that Stone repeatedly flouted her gag order.
    — Anthony Man, sun-sentinel.com, 16 July 2019

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