Example Sentences

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The awkward silence afterwards would once have mortified her, but not any more.

From BBC • Nov. 9, 2024

I was sure my mother would have mortified me with at least one phone call to my date's parents, but my dad just … trusted me.

From Salon • Aug. 1, 2021

So Mr. Nichols, who notes that he is “not a filmmaker who wants to operate in obscurity,” and his cast have been busy selling the film in a way that might have mortified the Lovings.

From New York Times • Nov. 8, 2016

There is no single skeleton key that unlocks all the mysteries and miseries that have mortified Washington’s NFL team for the last 15 seasons.

From Washington Post

When thou shalt do this, and shalt have mortified all ambition and self-esteem, then thou shalt be known to be dead to the world indeed.

From True Christianity by Arndt, Johann