Examples of displease in a Sentence

her coworkers' tendency to pry displeased her

Recent Examples on the Web DeWine has also been careful not to do anything during the past year that would further displease the Republican base. — Jeremy Pelzer, cleveland, 4 May 2022 Since the war began, Beijing has tried to displease neither Russia nor the international coalition opposing President Vladimir Putin — a position that is increasingly untenable. — Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2022 Either approach can work, even if the adaptations that veer from the books inevitably displease some loyal readers. — Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2022 The iPhone-maker is also aggressively and proactively censoring apps and other content that might displease Chinese regulators in the Chinese version of its App Store. — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 18 May 2021 But the host of HBO’s Friday-night mainstay Real Time with Bill Maher is the only one of the left-of-center comics who occasionally says things that might displease his audience. — Kyle Smith, National Review, 19 Apr. 2021 Take a dip in the wrong South American river or displease the wrong Bond villain, and some poor sap disappears in a froth of roiling water, blood and screams. — Jim Kiest, San Antonio Express-News, 15 Apr. 2021 As the day after Election Day dawns, the immediate task for Tuesday’s victor is likely to be more mundane and less ideological — and guaranteed to displease most Americans. — Tyler Cowen Bloomberg Opinion, Star Tribune, 3 Nov. 2020 The king makes elderly advisers crawl on the ground before him, shaves the heads of courtiers who displease him and has disowned several of his children. — The Economist, 14 Oct. 2020 See More

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