Example sentences for: ashamed

How can you use “ashamed” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Dol. Captain! thou abominable damned cheater, art thou not ashamed to be called captain!

  • I may get cosmetic surgery for my “Asian eyes” or use skin lighteners for my dark skin, but I reinforce the implicitly racist social norms that say that Asian eyes or dark skin are traits to be ashamed of.

  • Throughout this terse, entertaining parable (it won the grand prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival), the Belgian-born writer-directors Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne ( La Promesse , 1996) immerse you in the sensations of Rosetta's life: her daily, roundabout slog through the woods to reach the trailer park where she lives with her alcoholic mother (she's too ashamed to go through the front entrance); her frustrating treks to find employment, however menial; and, most of all, her countless rages at a society that refuses to grant her a "normal" (her word) existence.

  • I frankly think you all ought to be ashamed of yourselves.

  • Bauer : Politicians in Washington ought to be ashamed of themselves.


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