Example Sentences

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I was mortally embarrassed and for an awful moment felt sure I was disgracing the memory of all those people who were killed in the terror attacks of September 11, 2001.

From The Guardian • Sep. 11, 2016

After graduating from Harvard in 1938, Schlesinger went to Cambridge University on a Henry Fellowship just as Chamberlain was disgracing himself at Munich.

From Time Magazine Archive

They couldn’t live in the neighborhood after the way Johnny was disgracing them.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

Well, you see, she was disgracing not only herself but the regiment, and so it became a question of either leaving the army or getting her to live somewhere else.

From Who? by Kent, Elizabeth

Lady Rotherfield's absence confirmed the general conviction that Hardyman was disgracing himself.

From My Lady's Money by Collins, Wilkie