Explore Outraging through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Outraging meaning
present participle and gerund of outrage
Using Outraging
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of outrage
- In the example corpus, outraging often appears in combinations such as: outraging public, and outraging, outraging the.
Context around Outraging
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 9 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 16 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Outraging
- In this selection, "outraging" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 28.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, looting, act, theft, public, modesty and massachusetts stand out and add context to how "outraging" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include an act outraging public decency and arson looting outraging modesty of. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "outraging" sits close to words such as aav, abdicating and abductor, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with outraging
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The measure passed, outraging Massachusetts Republican Edward Brooke, the only black person in the Senate. (15 words)
An officer from West Yorkshire Police will appear in court charged with sexual assault and outraging public decency. (18 words)
These consisted of incidents recorded as indecent exhibition, or committing or conspiring to commit an act outraging public decency. (19 words)
Voyeurism doesn't apply where a victim is in a public place, and campaigners say outraging public decency has several limitations, including the fact that it has to take place in a way that means two or more people were capable of seeing it. (44 words)
A female office-bearer of Kheralu town unit of Mehsana BJP has been suspended from the party with immediate effect after her name emerged among the two accused of alleged “criminal intimidation and outraging the modesty” of her colleague. (39 words)
WFI assistant secretary Vinod Tomar has also been accused of abetting an offence and criminal intimidation under sections 109 and 506, respectively, in addition to accusations of sexual harassment and outraging a woman’s modesty. (35 words)
Example sentences (16)
An officer from West Yorkshire Police will appear in court charged with sexual assault and outraging public decency.
The apex court directed the state police to identify the FIRs involving serious offences like murder, rape, arson, looting, outraging modesty of women, destruction of places of religious worship and grievous hurt.
These consisted of incidents recorded as indecent exhibition, or committing or conspiring to commit an act outraging public decency.
WFI assistant secretary Vinod Tomar has also been accused of abetting an offence and criminal intimidation under sections 109 and 506, respectively, in addition to accusations of sexual harassment and outraging a woman’s modesty.
A female office-bearer of Kheralu town unit of Mehsana BJP has been suspended from the party with immediate effect after her name emerged among the two accused of alleged “criminal intimidation and outraging the modesty” of her colleague.
A local 41-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of outraging public decency and has since been released on conditional bail.
If you are found guilty of outraging public decency by exposing yourself urinating in public, you face unlimited fines and even life in prison.
Robert Wilson, 34, of Chisworth Close in Leigh, appeared before Wigan magistrates to face a charge of outraging public decency by having sexual intercourse in a public place on January 28.
The agency's officials were also accused of theft, outraging modesty and beating women and children in Sheikh's residence by a caretaker.
The Goregaon police subsequently registered a case on charges of stalking and outraging the modesty of a woman under the IPC and IT act.
The measure passed, outraging Massachusetts Republican Edward Brooke, the only black person in the Senate.
Rakesh Kumar Prasad, 26, was sentenced on Monday after he was found guilty of “outraging the modesty of a woman” and “using criminal force on her”, the Strait Times reported on Tuesday.
Voyeurism doesn't apply where a victim is in a public place, and campaigners say outraging public decency has several limitations, including the fact that it has to take place in a way that means two or more people were capable of seeing it.
Analysis of the attack suggested that the Mujahideen Shura Council and Al-Qaeda in Iraq were responsible, and that the motivation was to provoke further violence by outraging the Shia population.
At his death, some portraits were auctioned in Paris, they sold for little; the famous Death of Marat was exhibited in a secluded room, to avoid outraging public sensibilities.
In retirement he publicly supported apartheid after a visit to South Africa in 1962, outraging much British liberal opinion, and after a visit to China declared himself impressed by the Chinese leadership.
Common combinations with outraging
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- outraging public 7×
- and outraging 4×
- outraging the 4×
- of outraging 4×
- outraging modesty 3×