Example Sentences

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"There wouldn't be much fun in you either if YOU knew you were disgracing your father and making people talk about you."

From Rainbow Valley by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)

Our fathers said we were disgracing our families, and they commanded us to purge ourselves of our lie, and there was no limit to their anger when we continued to say we had spoken true.

From The Mysterious Stranger by Twain, Mark

But by that time there was no coinage: only paper money in which ten shillings called itself a pound as confidently as the people who were disgracing their country called themselves patriots.

From Heartbreak House by Shaw, Bernard

"They would kill their captain, whose little finger was worth the whole of them; they were disgracing the college; three or four of them had neither heart, head nor pluck."

From Tom Brown at Oxford by Hughes, Thomas