Wondering how to use Humiliate in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as mortify or offend.
Humiliate meaning
- To cause to be ashamed; to injure the dignity and self-respect of.
- To make humble; to lower in condition or status.
- To defeat overwhelmingly.
Using Humiliate
- The main meaning on this page is: To cause to be ashamed; to injure the dignity and self-respect of. | To make humble; to lower in condition or status. | To defeat overwhelmingly.
- Useful related words include: mortify, offend, bruise, injure.
- In the example corpus, humiliate often appears in combinations such as: to humiliate, humiliate him, and humiliate.
Context around Humiliate
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 4 middle, 12 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Humiliate
- In this selection, "humiliate" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 24.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, demotivate, further, john, bragg and people stand out and add context to how "humiliate" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include attempt to humiliate john paul and efforts to humiliate me. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "humiliate" sits close to words such as abalone, abomination and addressable, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with humiliate
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
They are doing this to humiliate people. (7 words)
Iran is out to undermine Israel and humiliate America. (9 words)
After I finally got out, she continued to make efforts to humiliate me. (13 words)
It’s OK even if, as a proud feminist, you want your partner to call you a ‘filthy s**t’ or, as a body positive person, ask them to humiliate your penis size because it turns you on – it doesn’t reflect who you are in real life. (48 words)
Of equal importance in the promise was to force Mexico to pay, both as a way to humiliate the nation’s neighbor to the south as well as a pledge to voters not to use American taxpayer dollars on the project. (41 words)
Those in the elite are thought to know things about each other that they would rather was not made public, and videos have been used in the past to humiliate and discredit a political opponent. (35 words)
Why was Rome so hostile to him, and the imperial authority in Constantinople so willing to allow Rome to so humiliate him? (22 words)
Example sentences (20)
Communist attempt to humiliate John Paul II In 1983 Poland's Communist government unsuccessfully tried to humiliate John Paul II by falsely saying he had fathered an illegitimate child.
He stopped her wearing makeup, monitored her mobile phone and social media use and showed up at her work to humiliate her in front of colleagues, causing her to lose two jobs.
He then told Hannity, to the loud cheers of the audience, that he would “humiliate” Bragg in court.
It’s OK even if, as a proud feminist, you want your partner to call you a ‘filthy s**t’ or, as a body positive person, ask them to humiliate your penis size because it turns you on – it doesn’t reflect who you are in real life.
Karma finally caught up with her when Naofumi Iwatani clawed his way back from rock bottom to clear his name and humiliate her.
Of equal importance in the promise was to force Mexico to pay, both as a way to humiliate the nation’s neighbor to the south as well as a pledge to voters not to use American taxpayer dollars on the project.
They are doing this to humiliate people.
They would humiliate us by putting us in an even worse position than before we left.
Why was Rome so hostile to him, and the imperial authority in Constantinople so willing to allow Rome to so humiliate him?
After I finally got out, she continued to make efforts to humiliate me.
And the more that Western nations can do to demotivate, humiliate, and undermine the benefits of terrorism, the less popular it’ll become.
Despite the big win over Chiefs, Mngqithi was not pleased with his side’s finishing, saying they could have scored more goals to further humiliate their rivals.
I don't have trouble attracting women, but I don't want to humiliate myself again.
Iran is out to undermine Israel and humiliate America.
I was trying to humiliate him for what he is, but you are too stupid to understand it.
Not wanting to humiliate Lena, she said thank you for the Christmas gift.
The costumes represent not just attire but the symbolism of absolute power wielded by white men without consequence — power used to coerce, oppress, victimise, and humiliate, enforcing compliance with certain values and norms.
The panel said that as Colleague A/witness three was a housekeeper and Mrs Capel was a senior nurse, Mrs Capel’s behaviour was intended to humiliate a junior colleague.
They don't have to face me over the cornflakes the next morning to negotiate life's admin, after having begged me to humiliate them the night before.
Those in the elite are thought to know things about each other that they would rather was not made public, and videos have been used in the past to humiliate and discredit a political opponent.
Common combinations with humiliate
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to humiliate 44×
- humiliate him 8×
- and humiliate 7×
- humiliate her 5×
- humiliate the 5×
- humiliate and 5×
- would humiliate 4×
- humiliate me 4×
- humiliate them 4×
- humiliate or 3×