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Example sentences for "shame and"

  • It would be better for them all to die together than to live on through such a life of shame and misery.

  • Greatrex or from Mr. Lancaster stoically enough, he couldn't watch the humble devotion of those two honest-hearted simple old servants without a mingled thrill of shame and tenderness.

  • Edie blushed again, but this time with a certain tinge of shame and disappointment.

  • The Sense of Shame and Honour is enough to keep the World itself in Order without Corporal Punishment, much more to train the Minds of uncorrupted and innocent Children.

  • Pursue thy course, pursue it without stopping, without looking back; henceforth it is too late to retrace thy path; anyhow be chaste, be chaste under pain of shame and infamy.

  • I am afraid of soiling one day the robe which I wear, I am afraid of becoming an object of shame and compassion.

  • For he could no longer doubt that he had set his servant's passions aflame, and he must either expose himself to her venomous tongue and incur the shame and scandal, or else appease the erotic rage of this kitchen Messalina.

  • It was given her to cover her face with, in token of shame and silence, for that by the woman sin came into the world (1 Tim 2:9).

  • Thirdly, These meetings of yours, instead of being an ornament to the church in which you are, are a shame and blemish to those churches.

  • Small wonder that his reign ended in shame and disaster.

  • They answered: "God has given us this night a royal heir, by whose hand your king shall suffer shame and ill-hap.

  • She felt sick of men and women, and of life itself, since the greatest thing in it seemed to be this hateful, miscalled love that preceded sorrow and shame and death.

  • The girl's pale face was flushed now with shame and anger.

  • It was slow to come, but was none the less violent that it had been preceded by the benumbing shock of shame and pride.

  • A strange and irritating sensation had been creeping over him--it was his first experience of shame and remorse.

  • She would be admired for this step by the people she had left; she could not think without a heartache of her aunt's shame and distress.

  • Susan had a sensation of shame and terror; she shut the paper quickly.

  • Alfie was at home for a dreadful week, during which the devoted women suffered agonies of shame and terror.

  • It was even harder than he could have believed possible, to separate in his own conscience his abandonment by all his fellows from a baseless sense of shame and disgrace.

  • At last poor father said that he had given no satisfaction again, and never did give any satisfaction now, and that he was a shame and disgrace, and I should have done better without him all along.

  • She erected in her mind a mighty Staircase, with a dark pit of shame and ruin at the bottom; and down those stairs, from day to day and hour to hour, she saw Louisa coming.

  • Urged on by shame and fear, he defends himself with all his strength.

  • From as far as his voice could reach he began to challenge me, and said: 'Vassal, without provocation you have caused me shame and harm.

  • Feeling no further care for them, he starts to present a debt of shame and woe to the others who are leading the maid away.

  • The thought of the official armchair filled her with shame and anguish, for had she not bade it defiance a score of times?

  • He felt a shame and a fear which made him fly before people's faces with the restless step of a bird of darkness.

  • The infant was full of shame and of ecstasy.

  • In this condition of shame and disillusionment I am now resolved to escape at the same time from the world and from myself, for I am tired of both alike, and already I feel as if a great weight had been lifted off me.

  • With a sense of shame and hypocrisy he disengaged himself at length, and joined Brother Andrew in the sacristy.

  • She was sunk already in shame and degradation, and he had put it out of his power to save her.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shame and" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    after much; black face; direct current; finally settled; four bells; given amount; good citizenship; great historical; like vnto; little silver; make you; mean anything; mere accident; much delight; must assume; other vessels; provision should; shame and; shameful death; state for foreign and political affairs; that seemed; will demand; yellow satin