be ashamed
Example Sentences
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But in a spring 2025 email to City Hall, he said both “should be ashamed and resign in disgrace.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026
"You have chosen to set both aside and insult two female Canadian non-combatants, and to intentionally shame them before millions. You should be ashamed," he said.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
"I would be ashamed to have written any part of this," Wilson argued in the London Review of Books, adding it "lacks many of the elements that make the poem great".
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
The AMA ought to be ashamed for ignoring the bulk of American physicians.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
About the problem of trying to convince their kids never to be ashamed of who they were, while all the time hiding their own shame for not being better providers.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
