Example sentences for: humiliation

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

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

  • Last year, in a defense of the concept of sexual harassment, she recalled her own humiliation, years before, by a powerful editor she had gone to see about a job.

  • The humiliation caused by his unkind smile persisted for 24 hours.

  • Most critics, such as the Los Angeles Times ' Kenneth Turan, are repulsed, calling it "a cinema of humiliation, embarrassment, and misery."

  • 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.


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