Example sentences for: shameful

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

  • Perhaps the most shameful thing about the PDFA propaganda campaign is that its leaders know better, having used drugs themselves.

  • When the Irish were on the way up, intent on mastering and merging into American society, they viewed the Great Hunger as a somewhat shameful episode--a tragedy to be cordoned off in the past and overcome.

  • Even as William Bennett and the National Political Congress of Black Women renew their assault on companies that profit from gangsta rap and claim that it marks a shameful new low in American pop culture, and even as its defenders assert (as Chuck D does) that it's a counter-CNN for the disenfranchised, gangsta rap is merely the wheel coming full circle--back to Charles Harris and "After The Ball."

  • "This administration," Helms writes, "in its shameful effort to curry favor with Silicon Valley executives, has loosened export controls on supercomputers, putting them in Russian nuclear weapons factories.

  • The federal government should do more to spur the creation of such institutions, by providing resources, and by helping to equalize the shameful disparity in funding between rich and poor districts generally.


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