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.
• Most seemed to shun it, and the room that contained it.
  — Jonathan Lethem, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2021
• We were loved by many, and shunned by a few that didn’t like us.
  — Colin Campbell, baltimoresun.com, 18 Mar. 2018
• Arab leaders who had shunned him for a decade picked up the phone and called.
  — Declan Walsh, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2023
• The aim isn’t to shun AI, Luccioni says, but to help others choose the right tool for the job.
  — Harry Booth, TIME, 5 Sep. 2024
• Now Democrats, who shun him every day, must come to terms with that.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 8 Oct. 2021
• The Vikings wanted to welcome the warm air, not just shun the cold, and that's where the idea for huge glass doors started.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 2 Feb. 2018
• Their bench was among the best in the league, and you wouldn't be shunned for picking them to advance to the NBA Finals.
  — Aj Neuharth-Keusch, USA TODAY, 15 June 2018
• This time, though, there’s a great deal of social pressure to shun the games.
  — John Keilman, Chicago Tribune, 28 Nov. 2022
• 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
• During tapings of the show, she was shunned by Reasoner and the crew.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 13 June 2025
• In the wake of the scandal, her friends shunned her, but as the clip from The Gilded Age says, Alva had an ace up her sleeve.
  — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 1 Feb. 2018
• The top ski rentals from Aspen to the French Alps now shun formality.
  — Tom Weijand, Robb Report, 15 Feb. 2024
• Those whose faces appear on the wall are known to be in default and are shunned by the industry.
  — Barak Richman, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Jan. 2020
• Over the last four to five years she has been humiliated in the press and shunned by many friends.
  — oregonlive.com, 21 June 2019
• The Kings were able to bring in top prospects prior to the draft after years of being shunned by elite players.
  — Jason Jones, sacbee, 14 Apr. 2018
• And if a woman acts in ways out of sync with this style, she is usually shunned.
  — Judy Dushku, The Cut, 13 Feb. 2018
• Sun Yang was back in the pool but with none of the rancor from the previous night when he was booed and shunned on the medals podium.
  — Beth Harris, baltimoresun.com, 24 July 2019
• But at the same time, shunning the buzzword is very, very Apple.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 13 Sep. 2023
• There is a growing demand to shun Chinese apps and goods.
  — Stephen Collinson With Caitlin Hu and Vedika Sud, CNN, 23 June 2020
• The United States is set to become the only member of the United Nations that shuns the deal.
  — Jean Chemnick, Scientific American, 28 Oct. 2019
• Some seek contact with those like them, others shun it.
  — Emmanuel Carrère, Harper's magazine, 28 Oct. 2019
• After being shunned by the other passengers, June sits on the floor with Nichole as the train hits the end of the line.
  — EW.com, 8 Apr. 2025
• And that is having an impact at home, too, where fans are shunning games in protest.
  — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 20 Apr. 2018
• Insane prices for poor quality is the reason many shun the wines.
  — Elin McCoy, Bloomberg.com, 8 Mar. 2018
• Top advisers have been shunned, then brought back into the fold.
  — Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 1 May 2024
• That story got Nack shunned at racetracks across the country.
  — Tim Layden, SI.com, 14 Apr. 2018
• However, her experience of being shunned as a Black woman by other local gay clubs bolstered her resolve to make the Catch, which opened in 1973, more welcoming for those left out of the scene in L.A.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2025
• In the past, then, corporate ownership meant former craft operations were shunned.
  — Peter Rowe, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 July 2025