How to Use shun in a Sentence

shun

verb
  • He shuns parties and social events.
  • After his divorce he found himself being shunned by many of his former friends.
  • Paige has talked about how she was shunned.
    — Joe Kinsey Outkick, FOXNews.com, 9 May 2026
  • We were loved by many, and shunned by a few that didn’t like us.
    — Colin Campbell, baltimoresun.com, 18 Mar. 2018
  • There was no need to shun the work, either.
    — Jerry Brewer, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2026
  • He was shunned by his homeland and called a traitor.
    — Tim Spiers, New York Times, 1 June 2026
  • Wall Street has shunned Venezuela for a long time.
    — Sarah Min, CNBC, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Arab leaders who had shunned him for a decade picked up the phone and called.
    — Declan Walsh, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Let the whole village gossip and shun me!
    — Literary Hub, 28 May 2026
  • Will they be offended and shun us?
    — Literary Hub, 2 Mar. 2026
  • He will be shunned, and his family will have to shun him too.
    — Christina Grace Tucker, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Now Democrats, who shun him every day, must come to terms with that.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 8 Oct. 2021
  • This time, though, there’s a great deal of social pressure to shun the games.
    — John Keilman, Chicago Tribune, 28 Nov. 2022
  • Don’t shun conflicting points of view.
    — Parents, 24 May 2026
  • Don’t shun conflicting points of view.
    — Lauryn Higgins, Parents, 5 Dec. 2025
  • Someone who was a bit more of a scientist, he was shunned.
    — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 10 June 2026
  • Gay has said she felt shunned and struggled after leaving the church.
    — Jeff Nelson, PEOPLE, 11 Nov. 2025
  • Before long, he is totally shunned from the scene that once adored him.
    — Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 17 May 2026
  • There were calls to shun Japanese goods.
    — Chan Ho-Him, Fortune, 10 Feb. 2026
  • And if a woman acts in ways out of sync with this style, she is usually shunned.
    — Judy Dushku, The Cut, 13 Feb. 2018
  • Not getting into the school would've been akin to being shunned from home.
    — Alex J. Rouhandeh, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Even some of the nation’s largest and best-protected banks were shunned.
    — David J. Lynch and Tony Romm, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Mar. 2023
  • And that is having an impact at home, too, where fans are shunning games in protest.
    — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 20 Apr. 2018
  • He was sued for defamation, denounced, ridiculed, shunned, hated and feared.
    — Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2019
  • Insane prices for poor quality is the reason many shun the wines.
    — Elin McCoy, Bloomberg.com, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Not truly; they’ll be shunned by society.
    — Christina Grace Tucker, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2026
  • The thing about sellouts is that they are ostracized and shunned by their people.
    — Terrell Jermaine Starr, The Root, 1 Nov. 2017
  • But at the same time, shunning the buzzword is very, very Apple.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Trying to reclaim a part of themselves that has been shunned and stereotyped.
    — al, 17 Jan. 2020
  • What was left was half mansion and half ruin, still shunned by the local villagers.
    — Junot Díaz, The New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2018

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