Mortifying in a sentence

The impunity with which journalists and critics alike have been silenced throughout our history is mortifying.

As I grew into my teen years, it became totally uncool (mortifying, really) to continue the basement dance parties at home.

A MOM has shared the mortifying moment when she realized why everyone was trying to get her attention.

So today, I’m putting myself on the line and sharing some of the most mortifying sex I’ve ever had.

A few weeks later, Meredith shared a follow-up vid to offer backstory on the mortifying moment.

Joeli Brearley, CEO and founder of Pregnant Then Screwed, said the latest data is “mortifying”.

The latter was an epic train wreck; Kilmer refers to it as “mortifying-at-best,” with actors dropping lines and a set that rarely worked right.

It is hard to think of a more mortifying moment in Modi’s tenure as Prime Minister.

Doctors delivered the 'mortifying' news to her and husband Spencer, 47, that they were unlikely ever to have kids, leaving them considering adoption.

After a painful and mortifying 15 minutes, in which the threading lady decided I needed to also have my upper lip AND my chin done, I was a new woman.

But he’s right about one thing – he let the side down in a mortifying manner.

Mortifying video footage has revealed the moment a Boston marathon runner was caught pooping on a stranger's front lawn during the 26.2 mile race on Monday.

From his parents’ perspective, this was a mortifying ambition.

One neighbour told the Sun: "It's mortifying.

How horribly mortifying,” she added.

It’s a mortifying process.

And it wasn’t merely that assimilation—an act at once idealistic, pragmatic, and mortifying—was more pressing to a Philip Roth or a Saul Bellow than one’s relationship, one way or another, to the nascent Jewish state.

How it got from there to meme stardom is something of a mystery, but it probably had something to do with The Hairpin, which shortly after it came out, block-quoting the “mortifying” line and borrowing it for the title.

Opposition politicians and commentators who point out that the public are alert to Johnson’s many character flaws seem to underestimate the allure of ending, once and for all, a negotiation that Britons – Leavers and Remainers alike – find mortifying.