How to Use displease in a Sentence

displease

verb

• The woman, displeased with the man, told him he had a week to leave their home.
  — cleveland, 15 May 2020
• What displeased Lynn was the steady blur of yellow flags.
  — Jeff Miller, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2019
• But Trump has a habit of tiptoeing to the brink of displeasing his base and then pulling back.
  — vanityfair.com, 13 Oct. 2017
• Saban, who has been at the forefront of the debate for years, was predictably displeased with the new changes.
  — John Talty, AL.com, 30 May 2017
• However, don’t pour your yogurt on the heads of those who displease you.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 19 Sep. 2017
• But left-leaning Pashinyan may be more inclined to forge links with the E.U., a move that would likely displease Putin.
  — Kate Samuelson, Time, 8 May 2018
• The back-and-forth about the citizenship question also displeased the plaintiffs in the case.
  — Tara Law, Time, 5 July 2019
• And Auburn fans are displeased with Gus Malzahn at midseason.
  — John Archibald | [e-mail], al, 29 Oct. 2019
• That is significant to the team, as is the fact brown and yellow were less displeasing to those who did not like it.
  — Kevin Acee, sandiegouniontribune.com, 14 July 2018
• In the end, what displeased me most about it were not its arguments but its tone and authorial voice.
  — Justin E. H. Smith, WIRED, 7 Mar. 2023
• Many Internet service providers are displeased by the change.
  — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 25 Feb. 2020
• The news comes at a time when UConn is 11-9 and many fans are displeased with the coaching performance of Kevin Ollie, many calling for his firing.
  — Staff Report, courant.com, 26 Jan. 2018
• Grumbling about a displeasing puzzle, like yelling at the ref from the bleacher seats or critiquing celebrity ball gowns at the Oscars, is, for a solver, all part of the fun.
  — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 21 June 2019
• He’s also finally asked (or forced, rather) to leave Khazad-dûm with naught to show for it, which is sure to displease High King Gil-galad.
  — Michael Nordine, Variety, 6 Oct. 2022
• Leon had a reputation for turning hard on those who displeased him.
  — Michelle Cottle, The Atlantic, 27 Oct. 2017
• Take a dip in the wrong South American river or displease the wrong Bond villain, and some poor sap disappears in a froth of roiling water, blood and screams.
  — Jim Kiest, San Antonio Express-News, 15 Apr. 2021
• Gard wasn't the only UW official displeased with the result of Potter's appeal.
  — Jeff Potrykus, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 Nov. 2019
• Through a lot of hard work, Daniel has improved upon those defensive deficiencies that displeased his mom in the past.
  — Mick McCabe, Detroit Free Press, 8 Feb. 2018
• The king makes elderly advisers crawl on the ground before him, shaves the heads of courtiers who displease him and has disowned several of his children.
  — The Economist, 14 Oct. 2020
• Either approach can work, even if the adaptations that veer from the books inevitably displease some loyal readers.
  — Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2022
• Of course, this was not the first time that Trump had used his position of power to chew out companies that displeased him, which is problematic in and of itself.
  — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 9 Feb. 2017
• These witnesses of her that have grown out of her can startle or displease her with the independence—the non-bias—of their observations.
  — Rachel Cusk, Harper's Magazine, 10 Sep. 2023
• Many of the votes are thought to have been cast by Republicans displeased by Mr. Moore but unwilling to cross party lines, and who wanted to register a protest.
  — Alan Blinder and Trip Gabriel, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2017
• DeWine has also been careful not to do anything during the past year that would further displease the Republican base.
  — Jeremy Pelzer, cleveland, 4 May 2022
• In mainland China, displeasing the government can land one in even more trouble.
  — Steve Mollman, Quartz, 5 Oct. 2019
• Trump has consistently backed off from any plan to lower drug prices that would displease corporate donors.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2019
• Technically, what that means is that the president can no longer block followers whose comments displease him and that the plaintiffs who brought the case will need to be unblocked.
  — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 9 July 2019
• While police may be able to prevent Xi from seeing anything that displeases him, drowning out the many Hong Kong protest songs might be a more difficult task.
  — James Griffiths, CNN, 26 June 2017
• Proper public health measures that could have been taken were not, out of fear of displeasing the Communist Party.
  — Alex Gladstein, Wired, 2 Mar. 2020
• The other is much younger, radical, won’t take corporate sponsors, and isn’t afraid to displease some power brokers.
  — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 27 June 2019

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024