How to Use flout in a Sentence

flout

verb

• Despite repeated warnings, they have continued to flout the law.
• Beseeching Pence to flout the law and put the vote on pause.
  — John Lithgow, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2021
• Beijing and Riyadh have been keen to flout their growing ties.
  — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 7 Aug. 2023
• Trump wouldn’t have been the first president to flout a court order.
  — Jack Goldsmith, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2017
• And how hard is Ohio coming down on sportsbooks that flout the rules?
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 3 Jan. 2023
• The people flouting rules and risking lives are being dicks.
  — Lauren Bravo, refinery29.com, 13 May 2020
• The problem began with the nature of the statute Johnson had flouted.
  — Michael Kazin, The New Republic, 10 June 2019
• Uber has often flouted local laws in its drive for growth.
  — Newley Purnell, WSJ, 3 Aug. 2017
• The state is slow to discipline doctors even when they are accused of flouting board rules.
  — Stephen Hobbs, Sun-Sentinel.com, 27 Oct. 2017
• Donald Trump flouts norms and ignores conventions and tells lies all the time.
  — Jay Willis, GQ, 18 Oct. 2017
• But several visits to the parks in recent weeks revealed that some guests flout the rules.
  — Randy Diamond, ExpressNews.com, 22 Aug. 2020
• Officials are yet to decide on penalties for those who flout the ban.
  — Sugam Pokharel and Julia Hollingsworth, CNN, 22 Aug. 2019
• That’s why Hillary flouted the rules for her email server.
  — Jonah Goldberg, National Review, 27 Oct. 2017
• Others have been accused of flouting some of their most basic duties in the courtroom.
  — Joseph Cranney, ProPublica, 27 Nov. 2019
• Williams has made a practice of painting women who flout societal rules, but here the rules have changed.
  — New York Times, 28 Oct. 2021
• When one side regularly flouts norms, the other side pays the price for striving to uphold them.
  — Alex Shephard, New Republic, 24 Jan. 2018
• 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
• Yet a trip to nearly any shop in New Delhi makes clear how widely the ban is flouted.
  — Fox News, 4 June 2018
• Birx was just the latest public official who appeared to flout their own guidelines.
  — Sam Dorman, Fox News, 22 Dec. 2020
• On the fourth night of the protests, Evans and a group of cops were pursuing a rowdy crowd flouting the city’s curfew.
  — Jamie Thompson, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2023
• 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
• Officials who knowingly flout the law could face felony charges.
  — Ray Stern, The Arizona Republic, 1 Apr. 2022
• Is her reply a subtle (or perhaps not so subtle) way of flouting the rules?
  — Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 25 July 2018
• 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
• 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
• But the judge ruled that Stone repeatedly flouted her gag order.
  — Anthony Man, sun-sentinel.com, 16 July 2019
• Though these audiences were still required to wear masks, many flouted the order.
  — Nancy Bristow, Time, 1 May 2020
• But abuses persist as brokers and employers flout the rules.
  — Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2021
• The president has flouted the law, and, when courts have called him to account, has ridiculed and even threatened judges who defied his will.
  — Garrett Epps, The Atlantic, 10 May 2017

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024