Example sentences for: indignities

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

  • As the situation grew even more disordered, Forbes simply assumed the fetal position, going totally silent in hopes of being spared further indignities.

  • Just deserts, you might say, for those minority multiculturalists who pretended that equality of cultural recognition was as good as equality of actual power: Now whites want to play the same game, recounting to us the sufferings of the Celts, the indignities borne by the Welsh, yet still retaining the power premium they've long enjoyed--as whites.

  • He also delights in exploring the limits of the British stiff upper lip, relishing opportunities to see what indignities a subject of the queen can suffer and still say "mustn't grumble."

  • Yes, Ruff conceded, Clinton had clammed up about the details, but this was merely "an effort to preserve the dignity of the office" in the wake of the indignities to which Clinton had subjected it.


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