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How to use affronting in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word affronting? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
To ground a novel in an atrocity still so raw in the public memory risks affronting its surviving victims.
No boy will approach a girl without being invited, and not only through fear of affronting the feelings of ownership of a local gang leader.
Runners aged between 19 and 70 are in good spirits, happy to be taking part in this historic edition but nervous at the idea of affronting high temperatures and more hills than usual.
The multinational Salerm Cosmetics feels proud of its excellent researchers, capable of affronting the challenges thrown down by fashions and trends from the world markets.
Jumping over obstacles, affronting the worst of foes, going from the ridiculous to the most dramatic, Don Quichotte recreates the world unto his fashion.
Children discover there is a beyond for affronting and aggressiveness.
Charlier said the Venetians had been nervous of affronting the artists.
Examples from Classical Literature
She amazed him, sitting there in the purple stockings and the affronting gown, and he admired.
And turned off for pinching the duenna, or affronting my lady's waiting-woman?
I could not, were my very life at stake, think of affronting them by not doffing my hat.
But in his eagerness to secure the alliance of Florence, he committed the fatal mistake of affronting the Venetians.
As if he felt himself full to the throat with affronting sentiments.
Mrs Moodie tried every means of affronting her, but long without success.
She took the first opportunity of affronting her mother-in-law on the occasion, talking to her so expressively of her brother's great expectations, of Mrs.
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