Example sentences for: shame

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

  • It would be a shame if someone this talented meant them in earnest.

  • The naked terms for such a traditionally taboo subject as the toilet have always proved too much to bear for polite society, which hastily covered the bare-cheeked shame of them with a blanket of euphemism.

  • That would be a shame, since the technical solutions that Volokh dismisses carry the promise of avoiding his "spillover" problem altogether.

  • So why is Bill Clinton's presidency stamped forever with the shame of impeachment, and why does he face premature removal from office, when impeachment was never seriously considered for Bush and Reagan?

  • You can't look for long at the picture of Maria Eugenia Ponce, a waitress at a Los Angeles diner, so raw are the shame and distrust in her eyes.


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