Example sentences for: shamed

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

  • Are we to be shamed into speaking of “phonetic decay” because it pleases Prof.

  • 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.

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

  • Herbert Coleridge, the first editor of the Philological Society's dictionary, was not the poet's grandson; Elisabeth Murray's biography was only taken on by Oxford after Yale University Press had turned it into a bestseller and shamed OUP into publishing it (OUP having earlier rejected it as unworthy).

  • 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."


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