Sample Sentences forumbrage (editor-reviewed)
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She took umbrage at his remark and stormed out of the room.umbrage = offense
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She is quick to take umbrage when someone critiques her work.
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I wasn't sure what Jem resented most, but I took umbrage at Mrs. Dubose's assessment of the family's mental hygiene. (source)
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But should we take umbrage at the fact?† (source)
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He was regarding me with much umbrage.† (source)
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Baboo, especially, took umbrage, and he led his littermates in savage charges, ignoring Edgar's protests until the marauders ran howling away.† (source)
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Occasionally she would take immense umbrage, such as when he hung his mackintosh on her peg, and she stood in front of it shaking for fully five minutes, until Liz spotted her and called Leamas.† (source)
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If he had sped off into the night, then all might have been well, but although I sensed a slight hesitancy, I also felt an intransi gence, a feisty Hibernian umbrage at my father's nickel that matched the old man's rage at this indefensible language.† (source)
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It is only fitting, therefore, that we fallen ones take umbrage within the pale of another venerable tradition.† (source)
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Vampa took this wild road, which, enclosed between two ridges, and shadowed by the tufted umbrage of the pines, seemed, but for the difficulties of its descent, that path to Avernus of which Virgil speaks.† (source)
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You can always winkle out their birth names if you like, but they take umbrage if you use them.† (source)
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I take umbrage at this.† (source)
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Mr. Jack Maldon shook hands with me; but not very warmly, I believed; and with an air of languid patronage, at which I secretly took great umbrage.† (source)
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it was here that you took your first walks abroad, following the nursery-maid with unequal step and sniffing up the strange odour of the ailantus-trees which at that time formed the principal umbrage of the Square, and diffused an aroma that you were not yet critical enough to dislike as it deserved;† (source)
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Therefore, just and wise men take umbrage at his act, until after some little time be past: then they see it to be in unison with their acts.† (source)
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The last object at which Elizabeth gazed when they renewed their journey, after their encountre with Richard, was the sun, as it expanded in the refraction of the horizon, and over whose disk the dark umbrage of a pine was stealing, while it slowly sank behind the western hills.† (source)
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