Sentence examples for flout from high-quality English sources.

• Companies flout them.

• It has led people to consume fatal home remedies and flout social distancing guidance.

• It is now a criminal offence to flout the public health guidance on social distancing to prevent Covid-19.

• “It cannot be right that Remain campaigners can so blatantly flout the rules to feed the British people their propaganda.

• Politicians flout health rules that carry swingeing penalties for other infringers.

• Trump’s willingness to flout ethics rules separating governance and politics during the convention heightened his concerns.

• If people continued to flout regulations, patrols may check supermarket trolleys for non-essential shopping and set up road blocks.

• Others have imposed strict measures to enforce lockdowns, fining people who flout the rules, and in this field, Romania is a leader.

Use flout in a sentence.

• And the practices, filmed at farms operated by Moy Park, one of the UK’s biggest chicken processors, flout animal-welfare law and government codes.

• France's Health Minister Olivier Véran hit out at those who flout directives on social distancing, describing them as "dangerous" and "irresponsible".

• The quartet urged Raab “to abandon any or all legally questionable and unfair efforts to flout the Northern Ireland protocol of the withdrawal agreement”.

• For instance, he mentioned California, where an outdoor-dining ban in the fall sparked outrage and even prompted some restaurants and local jurisdictions to flout the rules.

• President-elect Joe Biden in particular, ahead of the US election, circulated a Congressional letter which urged the PM to "abandon any and all legally questionable and unfair efforts to flout the Northern Ireland protocol of the Withdrawal Agreement".

• New EFL chief executive Trevor Birch wrote to all clubs on Monday, warning them "now is not the time for complacency" over Covid protocols, adding: "We will come under extreme governmental pressure if we continue to flout the rules and guidance in place.

• Photos from inside the RNC show some delegates appearing to flout the rules by not wearing face masks – and appearing to continue doing so even after Ms Harris had raised the issue with GOP staff running the convention, the Charlotte Observer report states.

• British civil servants flout basic security protocols making leaks such as the one that embarrassed Darroch inevitable, according to an intelligence firm brought in to investigate a separate leak of sensitive information from a government department last year.

flout sentence examples

• But when a delegation of Trump administration officials arrived at the clinic on Tuesday to thank the doctors there for their work on the virus, one person decided to flout the rule: Vice President Mike Pence, the chairman of the White House coronavirus task force.

• President Trump defended his decision to flout Nevada authorities by holding an indoor rally on Sunday — and said that he felt personally safe at his campaign’s defiantly mask-optional events when asked if he was worried about the disease being spread in his presence.

• "We will continue to engage with people and explain the rules but we do want to be really clear that we will enforce them where we need to, especially around repeat offenders, significant gatherings and people who deliberately flout the regulations and put others at risk."

• Inaction by national governments over the issue prompted the European Commission's environment commissioner, Karmenu Vella, to warn of legal action after talks with ministers from nine EU countries including Britain, France, Germany, Spain and Italy - all of which regularly flout the bloc’s air quality standards.