Example sentences for: humiliating

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

  • Noun . A crushing (humiliating) defeat, a drubbing, a fleecing, a loss, usually viewed from the receiving end: We took a right regular fxxxing at Tobruk.

  • The humiliating visit of the black ships of Commodore Matthew Perry, demanding trade rights and treaty concessions for the United States, was still two decades away, and the Japanese could retain for a little longer the illusion that their two centuries of peace and feudal harmony would last forever.

  • The humiliating Spanish surrender is proudly recalled in Bahamian history, even though it was all unnecessary: the peace treaty had been signed the previous week.

  • How humiliating for Shields to know that everyone who read that thought in unison, "or watch as you scratch your private parts."

  • Led by General Miltiades, the Athenians inflicted a crippling and humiliating defeat on the Persians.


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