Example sentences for: shamed

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

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

  • 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 was Bergman's spilling his guts to the New York Times that finally shamed CBS into running the Wigand interview.)

  • 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.


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