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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Trying to reclaim a part of themselves that has been shunned and stereotyped.
    — al, 17 Jan. 2020
  • That came a week after Harris, Rales and Johnson publicly said the old name, which had been shunned over the past three years.
    — CBS News, 5 Sep. 2023
  • As a youth growing up in Milwaukee, Wade said gay boys were shunned.
    — James Causey, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 June 2019
  • In one, a teenage girl caught kissing her neighbor is brutally shunned by her family.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 1 July 2025
  • The comity on school spending, however, shuns a debate that California’s politicians should be having — what to do about the system’s chronically subpar academic achievement.
    — Dan Walters, Mercury News, 20 June 2025

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'shun.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: