Get to know Outrages better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning.
Outrages meaning
plural of outrage
Using Outrages
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of outrage
- In the example corpus, outrages often appears in combinations such as: the outrages, outrages upon, outrages against.
Context around Outrages
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 10 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Outrages
- In this selection, "outrages" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, committing, murderous, antisemitic, upon, perhaps and ones stand out and add context to how "outrages" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and committing outrages during the and and other outrages. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "outrages" sits close to words such as abdollahian, abergavenny and abounded, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with outrages
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
There have probably been half a dozen new outrages since you started reading this. (14 words)
After another week of outrages, perhaps the time for the bold act, the stunt, is now. (16 words)
He said IS showed intolerance, brutality and extreme violence in torture, beheadings, drownings and “other outrages”. (16 words)
And we have seen the outrages: pushing for an assault on the Capitol; support of white supremacists and Christian nationalists; the family separation policy; and his call for police brutality – one “real rough, nasty day” – among many others. (38 words)
Deep-blue New York—the site of the lion’s share of antisemitic outrages, but by no means the only place in the country where these masked thugs have made their presence felt—won’t take action. (37 words)
A cartoon rat was to marry a cartoon aardvark on May 13th on Alabama Public Television and has set off a series of silly outrages that will continue until at least June 15. (33 words)
Example sentences (20)
After another week of outrages, perhaps the time for the bold act, the stunt, is now.
And the past few months have seen plenty of outrages, ones even more significant than events in Jerusalem.
He said IS showed intolerance, brutality and extreme violence in torture, beheadings, drownings and “other outrages”.
The BBC has labelled other murderous outrages as terror, using the word without quotation marks or attribution in stories about the London Bridge, Westminster and Paris attacks.
And we have seen the outrages: pushing for an assault on the Capitol; support of white supremacists and Christian nationalists; the family separation policy; and his call for police brutality – one “real rough, nasty day” – among many others.
Deep-blue New York—the site of the lion’s share of antisemitic outrages, but by no means the only place in the country where these masked thugs have made their presence felt—won’t take action.
He was hauled before the High Court for War Crimes in Belgrade and accused of membership of the Kosovan Liberation Army (KLA) and committing outrages during the 1999 war in Kosovo.
It says the windy weather can cause power outrages, toss loose objects, and damage holiday decorations.
Mutilating bodies in non-international armed conflicts is the war crime of “committing outrages upon personal dignity” under the Rome Statute.
Outrages upon personal dignity as a war crime, contrary to article 8(2)(c)(ii), in the context of captivity.
The ambassador argued that Putin has been emboldened to take ever more aggressive action against Nato countries due to the lack of an adequate response by Western leaders to previous outrages.
There have probably been half a dozen new outrages since you started reading this.
After nearly four years of nonstop gaslighting by Trump, we grow numb to his daily outrages.
Contrary to what the subprime crisis, the Libor scandal and the periodic tax-dodging outrages might lead us to believe, they are not venal megalomaniacs.
He has been jailed over 10 times by the Ethiopian government on convictions for treason, “outrages against the constitution”, and “incitement to armed conspiracy”, among others.
Looking like a more brutish Al Franken, Black bellows in a baritone a litany of insults and outrages to his sensibilities.
Shadow home secretary Diane Abbott MP added: “Major terrorist outrages have occurred all too frequently, including attacks by perpetrators who were known to the security services”.
Think of all the discredited outrages: claiming in defiance of contrary evidence that Barack Obama was born abroad and so was ineligible to serve as president.
A cartoon rat was to marry a cartoon aardvark on May 13th on Alabama Public Television and has set off a series of silly outrages that will continue until at least June 15.
Headlines filled up with fresh outrages, from fraudulent public housing schemes to dodgy road-building projects.
Common combinations with outrages
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the outrages 4×
- outrages upon 3×
- outrages against 3×
- of outrages 2×
- other outrages 2×
- committing outrages 2×
- and outrages 2×
- outrages from 2×
- outrages of 2×