Example Sentences

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They said Shanghai Xiaoguo Culture Media Co and comic Li Haoshi had "humiliated the people's army".

From BBC • May 17, 2023

The Soviet Union had humiliated the United States by launching the first satellite in 1957 and then the first human into orbit in 1961.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 14, 2019

One adviser who knows Tillerson and Trump well said the president had treated the secretary of state “horribly” and had humiliated him unnecessarily.

From Washington Post • Dec. 14, 2017

After he was elected senator, taking a seat on the same Judiciary Committee that denied him the judgeship, Mr. Sessions seemed to bear no grudge against those who had humiliated him in 1986.

From New York Times • Jan. 8, 2017

No one ever knew that those provisions were being sent by Petra Cotes with the idea that the continuing charity was a way of humiliating the person who had humiliated her.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez