How to Use humiliating in a Sentence

humiliating

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• But he’ll have been forced to drink a humiliating cup of truth over a scam he’s been pulling for years.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 2 Oct. 2023
• The loss to the Nuggets marked another humiliating home loss in the playoffs to end the Suns’ season.
  — oregonlive, 14 May 2023
• The arrest was humiliating for Montes' family, some of whom worked for the FBI.
  — Caitlin Yilek, CBS News, 7 Jan. 2023
• The account of Wong’s lobbying for the role of O-lan, and her quest to retain her pride in the face of humiliating rejection, is one of the book’s strongest.
  — Mayukh Sen, The New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2023
• Ukraine's capture of Izyum could mark a turning point in the war, dwarfed only by Russia's humiliating defeat around Kyiv in the spring.
  — Arkansas Online, 11 Sep. 2022
• Derek threatened to release humiliating recordings of me should his demand for the story to be spiked not be met.
  — Sean Williams, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2023
• But why would McCarthy, who was ousted in humiliating fashion just over a week ago, even want his old job back?
  — Erin B. Logan, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2023
• Oh, wait, what about the humiliating loss 19-point loss in Cleveland on Monday Night Football?
  — Mohammad Ahmad, cleveland, 23 Jan. 2023
• On the heels of a humiliating 25-8 loss in Friday night’s opener, the Sox absorbed yet another blow.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 23 July 2022
• Their loss to the Nets was humiliating considering the roster Brooklyn put on the floor, but the four losses all came by six points or fewer.
  — Dustin Dopirak, The Indianapolis Star, 21 Dec. 2022
• And that’s why open mics are necessary and evil and humiliating and humbling.
  — Michelle Aslam, Dallas News, 28 Aug. 2023
• If Fati is low on confidence now, how will his morale be after such a humiliating move?
  — Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 11 Feb. 2023
• He wasn’t forsaken in his quest, but his dream came at a humiliating cost that called into question his hold over the party.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2023
• Josh Jacobs rushed for 99 yards and the only touchdown for the Raiders (5-8), whose three-game winning streak ended in humiliating fashion.
  — Greg Beacham, ajc, 9 Dec. 2022
• Her expansive fiscal plans led to a slide in the pound and a selloff in government bonds which forced her into a humiliating U-turn last week.
  — Jon Sindreu, WSJ, 20 Oct. 2022
• The Bakersfield native left Congress on Dec. 31, months after a humiliating vote by his own party to oust him as speaker of the House.
  — Laura J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2024
• No one who toed the rubber for the Rangers in this three-part horror series that ended with the Astros’ humiliating 12-3 beat-down of their Lone Star rivals was without sin.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 7 Sep. 2023
• An affair would have been less humiliating because not that many people would have known!
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 26 June 2023
• His hands were tied behind his back and he was treated in a degrading and humiliating manner.
  — Katie Polglase, CNN, 21 Feb. 2024
• His humiliating failure to capture Kyiv in the war’s first days didn’t dissuade him from regrouping to attack the country’s east.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 21 Feb. 2023
• When the TikTok video began making its rounds, the couple was thrust in the spotlight and forced to relive the humiliating experience.
  — Vivian Song, Robb Report, 17 Aug. 2022
• It was born of humiliating defeat — the 1950 World Cup loss by Brazil to tiny neighbor Uruguay — and unabashed patriotism.
  — Gabriela Sá Pessoa, Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2022
• So the opening Cup loss to Saudi Arabia was a humiliating setback.
  — John Powers, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Dec. 2022
• Critics said that the mass detentions and humiliating treatment could violate the laws of war.
  — Victoria Kim, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2023
• The result: Two wins, none in Big Ten play, a humiliating 44-7 season-ending loss at rival Purdue and months of reflection.
  — Michael Marot, Chicago Tribune, 20 Aug. 2022
• The world is so humiliating in so many ways these days, and its embarrassments only seem to multiply year after year.
  — George Gurley, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2023
• Nothing less than the survival of his regime is at stake, as the humiliating mutiny led by the Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin demonstrated last month.
  — Samuel Charap, Foreign Affairs, 13 July 2023
• Bus driver Charles Flint said the working conditions and pay are humiliating.
  — Joshua Emerson Smith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 June 2023
• Another influence was the humiliating defeat the Arab countries suffered at the hands of Israel in 1967.
  — Alan Cowell, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Aug. 2022
• And in August the nation’s first lunar mission in nearly half a century suffered a humiliating crash into the moon.
  — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 21 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024