Example sentences for: shame

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

  • It is a shame that at this stage you would cite The Bell Curve . It has been, by now, thoroughly discredited by a panel of the American Psychological Association and by several studies that reanalyzed the very same National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data that Herrnstein and Murray did--studies by, among others, Chris Winship at Harvard, a group at Brookings, and a group at Berkeley led by myself.

  • In The Very Thought of You , three shallow, London-based mates coincidentally meet and fall in love with the same pretty blond American flake (Monica Potter), thus filling the one she likes best (Joseph Fiennes) with guilt and shame.

  • That the strict grammarian Pat Boone made a point of introducing his Fats Domino cover in concerts as "Isn't That a Shame"?

  • If Culturebox didn't know better, she would say that Janet Maslin was driven from the New York Times by the shame of almost having Lee Siegel agree with her.

  • But it is a shame, in an age of blockbuster publishing, that Lukas' editors either did not or could not prevail upon him to lighten up, on himself and on his audience.


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