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Example sentences for "ignominiously"

Lexicographically close words:
igniting; ignition; ignoble; ignobly; ignominious; ignominy; ignoramus; ignoramuses; ignorance; ignorances
  1. As a man of honour and a gentleman, you are bound to die ignominiously by the hands of the Public Executioner.

  2. My father, the Lucius Junius Brutus of his race, ordered me to marry her within a week, or perish ignominiously on the scaffold.

  3. Must we retrace our steps to the little post-office, and ignominiously wire to the launch to come and fetch us and our baggage back again to St. Mary's?

  4. And Sir Asinus, seeing the gentleman move, precipitately entered the garden, where he ignominiously concealed himself--having snatched up a volume of poems to console him in his retirement.

  5. We may die; die colonists; die slaves; die, it may be, ignominiously and on the scaffold.

  6. He hath been ignominiously kicked to the death, Anselm; and there he lieth cheek-by-jowl with a wretched carcass, which our sister Bridget has turned out of her cemetery for unseemly grinning.

  7. Soon opposition claims were started for east and west lines and our project was ignominiously called the 'Ram's Horn.

  8. Soon opposition schemes were started for east and west lines, and our project was ignominiously called the 'Ram's Horn.

  9. Twelve of the accused were ordered to be stripped of their official garments and insignia, and were ignominiously expelled from the order and the island, while an equal number were condemned to immediate death.

  10. He followed the others up the steps with an uneasy wonder whether, after all, he would not find himself ignominiously set down to learn lessons.

  11. The two unhappy champions then reluctantly allowed themselves to be almost dragged into position by their determined seconds, who had much ado to prevent them both ignominiously taking to their heels.

  12. Surprised by the suddenness of the onslaught, they were quickly overpowered, and, finding any attempt at resistance useless, they had to submit to being led ignominiously away.

  13. You are returning to the world I have so ignominiously left, and in all probability we shall not meet again.

  14. I shouted in encouragement and then it required all my strength and experience in the water to get through that hell of boiling breakers, and avoid being rolled and pounded and thrown ignominiously back half drowned.

  15. I was rolling ignominiously upon the ground, though, fortunately, not under him.

  16. Cardinals and bishops were ignominiously exposed upon asses with their legs and hands bound; and wealthy citizens .

  17. Others affirmed that the Cossack had begun the strife by causing the governor "to be publicly and ignominiously whipped," and that it was the Cossack's mill and not his house which he burnt.

  18. Rope was produced, and in a minute or two the man lay ignominiously bound in the bottom of the boat.

  19. Finding she was unable to wreak her vengeance with her teeth, her crafty brain conceived the idea of harassing her fleeing companions, to whom she was ignominiously fastened.

  20. The Canadian campaign was soon to end ignominiously enough.

  21. South Carolina was too important to be left dependent upon the skill of partisan commanders, and General Gates was hurried to the scene, only to be ignominiously defeated by Cornwallis at Camden, and routed with a loss of two thousand men.

  22. On September 11 the British fleet, certain of victory, sailed in and attacked him, but was ignominiously defeated.

  23. The United States Arsenal at Baton Rouge was captured by New Orleans militia, its garrison ignominiously sent off, and the contents of the arsenal distributed.

  24. Numerous attempts were made to alienate both Jefferson and Madison from Gallatin while he held the portfolio of the Treasury, but one and all they signally and ignominiously failed.

  25. But Saxon's money-earning was doomed to cease ignominiously and tragically.

  26. Like kittens about to be ignominiously drowned we slid into a huddled bunch at the bottom of the sack, men and animals equally helpless and distraught.

  27. She was ignominiously ejected from her chickenhouse-laboratory on the ground that it was more needed for its original use, and she was jeered at in every vehicle of public expression.

  28. By the next morning the poster was unrecognizable under a coating of dried reddish spots and was ignominiously removed, to the delight of Stover, whose illusions were thus preserved, as well as his secret.

  29. But when the same person has ignominiously failed, and begins to eat up his words, he should be listened to like an oracle.


  30. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ignominiously" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.