Example sentences for: shame

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

  • Over the past few days, these demonstrators shouted: "Down with the dictator," "Oh Great Leader, shame on you!"

  • "Through improv comedy, I was trying to get stuff off my chest about the wrong-headed direction the show was taking," Stern told Daily Variety . "I was willing to stand naked to show I had no shame or fear about making good comedy."

  • Greeting the news of her granddaughter's first menses, she blurts, "Mazel tov !" and then slaps the child--a tradition evidently meant to celebrate the beginning of reproductive life, while reinforcing a girl's sense of shame over the fact that she's now "unclean."

  • 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.

  • Only Thomas Friedman ( Washington Week in Review ) came to the studio prepared, cribbing from his next day's New York Times column: According to a popular one-liner in Jakarta, the ruling Suharto family, which owns toll roads, banks, and other businesses, "[has] everything--but a sense of shame."


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