How to Use flout in a Sentence

flout

verb

• Despite repeated warnings, they have continued to flout the law.
• Beseeching Pence to flout the law and put the vote on pause.
  — John Lithgow, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2021
• Beijing and Riyadh have been keen to flout their growing ties.
  — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 7 Aug. 2023
• But the North has long flouted the deal, testing its first bomb 11 years ago.
  — The Economist, 7 Sep. 2017
• And how hard is Ohio coming down on sportsbooks that flout the rules?
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 3 Jan. 2023
• Trump wouldn’t have been the first president to flout a court order.
  — Jack Goldsmith, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2017
• This isn’t the first time a tourist in Italy has flouted the rules while sightseeing this year.
  — Erin Clements, Peoplemag, 7 Dec. 2023
• The problem began with the nature of the statute Johnson had flouted.
  — Michael Kazin, The New Republic, 10 June 2019
• That’s why Hillary flouted the rules for her email server.
  — Jonah Goldberg, National Review, 27 Oct. 2017
• On the fourth night of the protests, Evans and a group of cops were pursuing a rowdy crowd flouting the city’s curfew.
  — Jamie Thompson, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2023
• Donald Trump flouts norms and ignores conventions and tells lies all the time.
  — Jay Willis, GQ, 18 Oct. 2017
• Parents who flout the ban are fined up to 10 chickens or one goat, a hefty sum in rural Malawi.
  — Abigail Haworth, Marie Claire, 19 Mar. 2018
• Yet a trip to nearly any shop in New Delhi makes clear how widely the ban is flouted.
  — Fox News, 4 June 2018
• The people flouting rules and risking lives are being dicks.
  — Lauren Bravo, refinery29.com, 13 May 2020
• Uber has often flouted local laws in its drive for growth.
  — Newley Purnell, WSJ, 3 Aug. 2017
• If anything, wouldn’t a concession like this encourage more folks in the stands to flout the rules?
  — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 20 Sep. 2017
• The state is slow to discipline doctors even when they are accused of flouting board rules.
  — Stephen Hobbs, Sun-Sentinel.com, 27 Oct. 2017
• Trump, far more than Sessions, likes to flout GOP orthodoxy.
  — Callum Borchers, Washington Post, 12 June 2018
• But several visits to the parks in recent weeks revealed that some guests flout the rules.
  — Randy Diamond, ExpressNews.com, 22 Aug. 2020
• Williams has made a practice of painting women who flout societal rules, but here the rules have changed.
  — New York Times, 28 Oct. 2021
• The president has flouted the law, and, when courts have called him to account, has ridiculed and even threatened judges who defied his will.
  — Garrett Epps, The Atlantic, 10 May 2017
• When one side regularly flouts norms, the other side pays the price for striving to uphold them.
  — Alex Shephard, New Republic, 24 Jan. 2018
• Officials are yet to decide on penalties for those who flout the ban.
  — Sugam Pokharel and Julia Hollingsworth, CNN, 22 Aug. 2019
• But a willingness to flout democratic norms has been apparent in the GOP for far longer.
  — David Lautersenior Editor, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2023
• Others have been accused of flouting some of their most basic duties in the courtroom.
  — Joseph Cranney, ProPublica, 27 Nov. 2019
• Norway’s team had been planning for weeks to flout the rules to point out the double standard for female athletes.
  — New York Times, 20 July 2021
• Drivers constantly flout those rules, or evade them by holding a phone between the legs, or just below the chin.
  — Mike Lindblom, The Seattle Times, 18 May 2017
• Nursing homes who flout the rules may be fined up to $2,000 per violation.
  — Fox News, 10 May 2021
• Researchers have found that hosts in L.A. regularly flout the city’s rules, with little consequence.
  — Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2024
• Ultimately though, opponents of the current pickleball courts argue the issue isn’t actually about pickleball but is more about a private business flouting state and city guidelines.
  — Sierra Lopez, The Mercury News, 27 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024