Example sentences for: humiliation

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

  • The point was to stop the Balkan cycle of conquest and humiliation.

  • Since the committee already knew the names it wanted, "naming names" was a loyalty test and humiliation ritual, not part of a real investigation.

  • Critics find the film's conceit--"that joblessness is a humiliation well beyond nakedness"--to be "witty" and "trenchant" (the New York Times ' Maslin).

  • If traditionalists sometimes sound bitter, it should not be something at which to wonder: From being called all sorts of unpleasant names, to overt discrimination, public humiliation, and ostracism, traditional Catholics have every reason to distrust and dislike the Vatican II apparatus.

  • Indeed, the very act of staring at her nakedness seems to only intensify her humiliation.


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