Example Sentences

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If getting your shot swatted by Wembanyama is humiliating, though, avoiding that shot altogether can be far worse.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 2, 2026

She didn’t like that film because the studio is humiliating her.

From Salon • Aug. 3, 2024

It’s just this really humiliating moment for him — most of the movie is humiliating, just like a sequence of humiliation moments for him.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 2023

"It is a thing of the past, it is almost archaeological, it is humiliating," he said.

From BBC • Oct. 26, 2022

I am still living at home, which is humiliating; but why should I pay extra to live in a dormitory, when the university is in the same city?

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood