How to Use indignant in a Sentence

indignant

adjective

• He was very indignant about the changes.
• She wrote an indignant letter to the editor.
• As Cusk hits all the high notes of indignant rage, this book snaps and steams.
  — Hillary Kelly, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2021
• At the end of the speech, Castro's voice became loud and indignant.
  — Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 14 Oct. 2022
• An indignant man complained to The Times in 1893 about the unfairness of it all.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2021
• Some were indignant, but most were ready to make the sacrifice.
  — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Aug. 2021
• The candidates were indignant that women can be held from the workforce by the high cost of child care.
  — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 16 Jan. 2020
• Flopsy has a lisp, which makes her painfully self-conscious and kind of indignant at the same time.
  — Margot Robbie, Harper's BAZAAR, 18 Jan. 2018
• The girl, indignant, gathers up the clothes and stalks away; there’s a genuine truculence in her step.
  — Glenn Kenny, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2018
• At first, Jenkins was indignant, even dishing back some smack to the thugs who were standing in front of her car.
  — Jon Tevlin, Star Tribune, 1 July 2021
• Marvel Studios Do black folk not have the right to be indignant when someone is wrong?
  — Jeneé Osterheldt, kansascity, 16 May 2018
• But while some have criticized the Fuller House star for seeming indignant in the wake of the scandal, a legal source says that’s far from the truth.
  — Emily Strohm, PEOPLE.com, 21 Aug. 2019
• At the time, Biden was indignant, saying Booker should be the one to apologize.
  — Matt Viser, The Denver Post, 6 July 2019
• Opinions tended to vary by age and race, the most indignant skewing whiter and older.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2021
• Largely cloaked in the anonymity of fake identities, the needlers tend to strike a pose of indignant anger in texts and other messages.
  — Phil Rosenthal, chicagotribune.com, 22 July 2019
• Opinions tended to vary by age and race, the most indignant skewing whiter and older.
  — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 8 May 2017
• The measure prompted indignant complaints from the United States and Japan.
  — New York Times, 21 Mar. 2021
• Everyone was indignant at the word yelled at a Black player.
  — Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 9 Aug. 2021
• The plan drew an indignant response from McIlroy, who usually is quite good off the tee.
  — Jay Cohen, The Seattle Times, 16 June 2017
• Claus, at the start of the film, is disillusioned and indignant and suffering from a centuries-long case of burnout.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 3 Dec. 2022
• Imagine a white person’s indignant response if a non-white stranger asked his or her race.
  — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 19 Mar. 2020
• The passenger sounds indignant as his hands remain on his lap.
  — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 6 Aug. 2017
• Others are indignant on behalf of loved ones who don’t already have access to the vaccines.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 16 July 2021
• Miller never got that kind of satisfaction from any of her indignant rants on Yelp.
  — Neil Swidey, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Apr. 2018
• For years, Pawar has been indignant about being called a volunteer.
  — Aarefa Johari, Quartz, 25 Nov. 2021
• What if the prevailing mood of our times is a giddy reversal of progress, logic and beauty, and all of it shoved in our faces with news alerts and indignant tweets?
  — Morgan Enos, Billboard, 23 Apr. 2018
• The role of a proud father driven to indignant, justified rage was one that suited this performer well enough.
  — New York Times, 25 July 2022
• Fox was still indignant that the National Marine Fisheries Service had not used his study, but there was some good news.
  — Andrew S. Lewis, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2023
• Still, Dwyer is indignant toward the widespread blame laid on college students for outbreaks at their schools.
  — Rebecca Renner, Science, 23 Nov. 2020
• When the industry’s shenanigans first came to light in 2008, they were greeted by indignant denials from banks, regulators and, most of all, the BBA.
  — David Enrich, WSJ, 27 July 2017

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