How do you use Shame in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like honor or feeling, plus the exact meaning.
Shame in a sentence
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Shame meaning
- An uncomfortable or painful feeling due to recognition or consciousness of one's own impropriety or dishonor, or something being exposed that should have been kept private.
- Something to regret.
- Reproach incurred or suffered; dishonour; ignominy; derision.
Synonyms of Shame
Using Shame
- The main meaning on this page is: An uncomfortable or painful feeling due to recognition or consciousness of one's own impropriety or dishonor, or something being exposed that should have been kept private. | Something to regret. | Reproach incurred or suffered; dishonour; ignominy; derision.
- Useful related words include: disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, arouse.
- In the example corpus, shame often appears in combinations such as: shame that, shame on, it shame.
Example sentences (20)
Shame shame shame what part of Africa our roots stems from?
Shame on American Physical Society, shame on American Geological Society, shame on American Academy of Sciences for consistently failing to stand up for Science and going along with this political project.
As shrieks of “shame, shame, shame” echoed from the public galleries, divided and angry senators voted 50-48 to endorse a lifetime seat on the court for Kavanaugh.
Have you no shame, sir, have you no shame?
As the Apostle Paul writes, "God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong" (1 Corinthians 1:27, NIV).
As you can see, Shame even had her own lair, and it's likely that Shame also had a hand in Riley's crisis of identity, as she suddenly stops believing in herself when Anxiety takes over.
Because shame about things – which can run the gamut from – shame of your body to your income status is actually blocking your ability to manifest at a high level and on a consistent basis.
It’s a shame that it takes quite so long to get to the good stuff and a shame that we have to wait a week to see what happens next.
Pamela Anderson aged beautifully, you shame women for having plastic surgery and shame women for aging naturally, can we ever fucking win with you?
Sometimes, it’s because of shame (and the particular shame from unwanted/unchangeable desires is brutal).
Grohl and the Foo Fighters performed their song "Shame Shame" on The Late Show.
Some people use it to shame others, some people use it to shame me.
For years I lived overwrought with shame because of the judgment from those who were not given the burden of my shoes to walk in. I allowed this shame to destroy my self-worth.
Not all shame is positive, of course, but sometimes, shame is a sign that we're a better person than we were five minutes, five months or five years ago.
The pictures then were intended to shame the pastor, but the pictures here did not shame the responsible men.
Chris Tucker comments on this between poop eater grins; saying how much of a shame it is that once beautiful, white gated communities are unrecognisable now with ethnic minorities in them, and what a shame that is.
It is a shame for him, a shame for us.
Protesters screamed out “I am a patriot” and “shame, shame”, delaying the vote for a few minutes.
Shame on Allen, but also shame on Twitter.
Tenth tale (I, 10) Master Alberto da Bologna honorably puts to shame a lady who sought occasion to put him to shame in that he was in love with her.
Common combinations with shame
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- shame that 31×
- shame on 24×
- it shame 21×
- to shame 19×
- of shame 18×
- shame shame 16×
- and shame 11×
- shame to 11×
- it's shame 11×
- the shame 11×