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Example sentences for "shaming"

Lexicographically close words:
shamelessly; shamelessness; shames; shamest; shameth; shamir; shammed; shamming; shampoo; shampooed
  1. I wot well e'en Dame Jeschuté rode a better steed that day When Parzival's hand avenged her, and her shaming was put away!

  2. You will be shaming the King next by outwalking him.

  3. This nascent opinion has begun to operate by shaming unscrupulous and recalcitrant employers into better practices.

  4. I could not shame them without shaming the lady, and they knew it; monks are adepts at such calculations.

  5. She was no longer virtuous, but a villainous prostitute in my eyes; and I fell to sleep with the firm resolve of driving her from my room the next morning, after shaming her with the story of the scene I had witnessed.

  6. To buy his honours with his daughter's soul And the perpetual shaming of his blood?

  7. I am so jealous of your weaknesses, That rather than you should lie prostituted Before a stranger's triumph, I would venture A whole hour's shaming for you.

  8. The shaming of the brothers-in-law happens thus.

  9. And in that same flaming moment he knew that he could not clear himself by shaming this light lady--that he had never seen or known.

  10. Loyalty to the Gold Standard and devotion to the principle of letting people starve were both abandoned; the shaming moral weakness of the Hoover regime, the resignation to defeat, were overcome.

  11. One man was not so hard to manage as two, each shaming the other into indifference.

  12. For every rancher and every ranch-hand in Glosterville was summoning Alcatraz to vindicate the range-stock against the long-legged mares which had been imported from the East for the sole purpose of shaming the native products.

  13. Both thee and the queen thy lady, he doth offer ye service meet, As he fain would serve this my sister--His service ye will repay, If ye kindly entreat this maiden that her shaming be put away.

  14. Of the shaming of Kunnewaaré; and of the death of the Red Knight.

  15. Of the coming of Kondrie, and Kingrimursel, and the shaming of Parzival and Gawain.

  16. O Lord, we need thy shaming look That burns all low desire; The discipline of thy rebuke Shall be refining fire!

  17. Till the soul grows godlike: brief,--you front no numskull Shaming by ineptitude the Greece that gave him birth!

  18. But how could she live on and face Ewing, shaming herself and shaming him in the darkness of his belief about her?

  19. From purest wells of English undefiled None deeper drank than he, the New World's child, Who in the language of their farm-fields spoke The wit and wisdom of New England folk, Shaming a monstrous wrong.

  20. Why hadn't he thought of this simple test before,--before shaming himself and shaming his wife by base suspicions?

  21. My aunt sat up in her bed, her face very stern when Betty talked of Dan shaming himself and his name.

  22. You needn't be afraid of shaming me," the girl went on.

  23. Max ought to have been glad of this encouragement, but somehow, shaming himself for it, he felt a dull sense of injury, especially where Grant was concerned.

  24. Further shaming Congress into action, Washington says that "with us .

  25. It was not men who were known to be bad who hurt you when they were dishonest; it was the good men who slid over that dividing-line, with apparent unconsciousness that they were on that other, shaming side.

  26. Oh, back of all this shaming hurt with Lawson and George Sutton was another shame, that went deeper and deeper still.

  27. I was only shaming her a little, because she sat there crying just like a great baby.

  28. Cervantes himself could not boast of greater success in banishing the books of Chivalry than Isla in shaming the friars out of the affected and often profane concetti, which, in his time, were mistaken for pulpit eloquence.

  29. Worse than the storied woe of olden time, Cureless abhorred, that one is plotting here-- A shaming death, for those that should be dear!


  30. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shaming" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    degrading; dishonorable; embarrassing; humiliation; notorious; regrettable; shameful