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How to use the word Despise in a Sentence?

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God created all of us to get to know each other and take care of each other – not to despise.

Bibi Bahrami

Found on CNN
1 year ago

i’m sleeping next to no one or no thing except the mirror and the only thing i see in the room is the reflection of the person i despise the most

Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
2 years ago

The race card is not the only one of the left's go-to weapons of choice against an America they've grown to despise, but it's also a tool of distraction from their myriad policy failures, the fact is, for decades now, Democrats have spectacularly failed — failed the very people they claim to be helping with all this racial hectoring.

Black Americans

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The military has a very specific and strategic job, and that's to keep our country safe, and when you thrust them in to be the front line of a sociological experiment which has a pernicious ideology that makes people hate the United States, a soldier can very quickly start to despise the very thing he's supposed to be protecting.

John Lovell

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

To see where we came from to where we are now … and the hatred there, you know the hatred going out there and it’s just so sad., that’s somebody who I loved so much who I trusted with my life. We’ve been through everything together. We nearly died in a car crash together and just how much we despise each other now … I just wanted to rip her apart out there.

Becky Lynch

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

when you despise yourself and everyone else in the world, you just give up, say fuck it, and pray the fuckers will accidentally press the big bomb buttons

Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
2 years ago

He sounds like a normal American with different views on policies, not what we're seeing now : People who hate America and despise the country and want to get into education at every level and change our history.

Brian Kilmeade

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This is what we claim to despise and yet here we are saying,' We can't consider these other candidates, who are more attuned to what our constituents want, because they are men,'.

One House GOP staffer

Found on CNN
3 years ago

What I can say is that I despise abuse and harassment, and I would never cover or conceal the actions of someone doing it, or knowingly put someone in a situation where they were around someone like that.

Seth Rogen

Found on CNN
3 years ago

If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.

Virginia Woolf

added by Normando
3 years ago

You probably noticed Democrats spent a lot of time talking about how much they despise our President. But we heard very little about their actual policies, policies that would have been unthinkable a decade ago.

Ronna McDaniel

Found on CNN
3 years ago

There are a few reasons that I think some people really might despise this show, they don't want to spend time with these characters, people who are sensitive to stories about animals very much could be bothered.

Robert Thompson

Found on CNN
4 years ago

It's now clear that the #B _ Team is not concerned with President Donald Trump interests — they despise diplomacy, and thirst for war.

Foreign Minister Javad Zarif

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Real men despise battle, but will never run from it.

George Washington

added by Normando
5 years ago

You're the most uninvited ever, Yet you force and barge in. You come with such a despise, Which bring forth sadness and torments which we cannot suffice. You leave the scars that couldn't be healed And memories that cannot be faded. Yet you come!! I curse you that you wouldn't see the bleak light of happiness for all eternity!! And be haunted by darkest demons of fraternity.

MG

added by murali_m
5 years ago

I despise the fact he thinks it’s OK to have an affair with a porn star, pay her off and pretend like it doesn’t matter.

Danny Stockstill

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

I despise Putin. I am not afraid of him, i am not saying that I do not sometimes feel fear for my life, or security of my family, my friends and relatives, but the feeling that I have is a feeling of ... contempt.

Yevgeny Kiselyov

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Young men often laugh at the sensible girls whom they secretly respect, and affect to admire the silly ones whom they secretly despise, because earnestness, intelligence, and womanly dignity are not the fashion.

Louisa May Alcott

added by cheesecake
6 years ago

Actresses, like Meryl Streep, who happily worked for The Pig Monster, are wearing black @GoldenGlobes in silent protest. YOUR SILENCE is THE problem. You’ll accept a fake award breathlessly affect no real change. I despise your hypocrisy. Maybe you should all wear Marchesa.

Rose McGowan

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Actresses, like Meryl Streep, who happily worked for The Pig Monster, are wearing black @GoldenGlobes in a silent protest, yOUR SILENCE is THE problem. You ’ll accept a fake award breathlessly affect no real change. I despise your hypocrisy. Maybe you should all wear Marchesa.

Rose McGowan

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Actresses, like Meryl Streep, who happily worked for The Pig Monster, are wearing black @GoldenGlobes in a silent protest, yOUR SILENCE is THE problem. You’ll accept a fake award breathlessly affect no real change. I despise your hypocrisy. Maybe you should all wear Marchesa.

Harvey Weinstein

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

It is time for the international community to take a clear stand against those who build the foundations of terror by teaching children to detest and despise, this must start by speaking out against incitement in Palestinian society.

Ron Prosor

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

My DeplorableNYUProfessor account was just an experiment to illustrate the point that the SJW left is producing the alt right that they hate so much. They are actually producing that what they despise by virtue of their idiocy and their totalitarianism, but I never thought much of it, I didn’t even expect it to be noticed.

Heat Streetreached

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

There are no weaknesses which we so thoroughly despise as those to which ourselves have yielded.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

added by Madeleine Quinn
8 years ago

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