IMPUNITY in a Sentence

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For IMPUNITY, below is one of 14 sentences:
They have so much hubris and become obnoxious, often show disregard for the rules of the road with impunity.

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 Meanings and Examples of IMPUNITY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
impunity
 n.  freedom from punishment or harm
Classic Sentence:
1  Now, one cannot read nonsense with impunity.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—FIRST SKETCH OF TWO UNPREPOSSESSING FIGURES
2  One is not a century with impunity.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—AN ANCIENT SALON
3  You pass close to them every day, peaceably and with impunity, and without a suspicion of anything.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VI—TAKEN PRISONER
4  One might have thought there was in that cellar one of those famished ogres--the gigantic heroes of popular legends, into whose cavern nobody could force their way with impunity.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 27 THE WIFE OF ATHOS
5  She shouted for her impatiently, knowing she could raise her voice with impunity, as Ellen was in the smokehouse, measuring out the day's food to Cookie.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
6  In consequence of the prevalence of this notion there are many Negroes who use every opportunity to make themselves offensive, particularly when they think it can be done with impunity.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In V
7  Questions that would have been resented in others she could ask with impunity.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 4 The Halt on the Turnpike Road
8  I look at them, and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed there.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES
9  I mean that if there were, it would be impossible to draw up with impunity two such deeds as these.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 56. Andrea Cavalcanti.
10  It will take us a long time to go the round of the farms and exploit the men, and all the time the suitors will be wasting your estate with impunity and without compunction.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XVI
11  I consider jealousy, as you know, a humiliating and degrading feeling, and I shall never allow myself to be influenced by it; but there are certain rules of decorum which cannot be disregarded with impunity.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
12  The thistle is the order for dignity and antiquity; the veritable 'nemo me impune lacessit' of chivalry.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16
Example Sentence:
1  A 98 pound weakling can't attack a beachfront bully with impunity.
2  They have so much hubris and become obnoxious, often show disregard for the rules of the road with impunity.