mortify

Example Sentences

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In a sequence that would mortify anyone averse to audience participation, he gently beseeches a handful of patrons to stand with their hands up and foreheads against the wall, like a row of perpetrators.

From New York Times • Feb. 12, 2024

That it seems a choice at all is what should mortify us.

From Salon • Feb. 9, 2024

A few years after I sent the quarterback the audio recording, a friend who lived in his dorm told me that he’d played it aloud for his buddies in an effort to mortify me.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 4, 2024

“Don’t take advantage of your own position and role to mortify the other.”

From Seattle Times • Dec. 22, 2022

I wonder what he needs to hide, because there is enough here in his living room that should mortify him.

From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan