Example sentences for: shamed

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

  • The point is: Levinson airbrushed the Jewishness out of his movie memoirs, and that review must on some level have shamed him--made him feel as if he'd been dodging the issue.

  • It said in an editorial, "Indonesia stands shamed before the world for its armed forces' encouragement of, and participation in, the killings and destruction in East Timor."

  • The rest of us will be piqued, shamed, outraged, instructed, and maybe perversely fortified.

  • At the Carnival of 1494, he shamed the Florentines into throwing their “vanities” — not only clothes, jewelry, and cosmetics, but books and paintings, with Botticelli contributing some of his own — onto a giant fire on the Piazza della Signoria.

  • One hopes that this newspaper variant can also be shamed out of favor.


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