Example sentences for: humiliations

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

  • One aspect of the horrible vise was the constant minor humiliations I had to suffer, such as interaction with the block warden, the party overlord of a block of houses, who had to give his assent to all matters tiny or grand, including travel.

  • Petty humiliations of flying, living in Queens, dealing with the public.

  • Telling the story of a myopic adolescent girl who's persecuted by her peers and slighted by her suburban family (which reveres her pretty little sister, a goody-two-shoes in a tutu), Solondz prolonged his heroine's humiliations until I wanted to scream, "I GET IT ALREADY!"

  • ) Subsequent jokes are grounded, predictably, in their sundry sexual humiliations; easy stuff, but concentrated and layered so that they add up to a vision of adolescence as a hormone-wracked purgatory.

  • The island’s tranquility lasted until 1287, when Alfonso III of Aragón, smarting over a series of humiliations at the hands of his nobles, found a pretext for invasion.


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