How To Use Shame In A Sentence

I've seen it a hundred times: an oafish fan shamed out of F-bombs by kids sitting with their parents. You Brought a Child to an NFL Game?!
It would be a shame to lose it - it is the landmark of the town centre.
It was so obvious they have had contact since NZ and this was a scripted farce to deter us from the fact that Jason Mesnick the most hated man in America and his ice princess walk of shamer Molly WERE CHEATING. Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
He had a bank balance that a senior merchant banker would not be ashamed of.
To my shame I refused to listen to her side of the story.

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I peered over. There stood Sir Henry doing nothing less than a 11)tribal war dance of sheer unashamed 12)ecstasy.
Greek weekly "Proto Thema", an unregretted and shameless Akin stated that he killed Solomou and would do it again if needed. OpEdNews - Diary: Murdering Peace in Derynia
The ladies took the stand for the second time during the surrebuttal and again dumped on Lana shamelessly. Guilty Feelings
[42] Of such ministers and counselors, the holy king said that they who were confounded and ashamed should remove themselves far from him: _Avertantur statim erubescentes, qui dicunt mihi, "Euge, euge! The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 25 of 55 1635-36 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing t
The litter on the boreen in Tullyvarraga, black bags of household rubbish thrown in over the wall, is a shame, a black spot in the quest for Tidy Towns glory.
Compulsions are obvious to an observer and can cause considerable shame and embarrassment.
She shamed him into making amends
He tried to deny it. Shame on him!
Our imperial past is now regarded rather shamefully. Times, Sunday Times
There is no shame in favoring the .30 and below calibers because of recoil issues ... or just practical financial reasons. 270WSM....for moose?
It is a shame that one high-profile incident has had such an impact. The Sun
And Polly ran into her own room, to prink also, fearing that her friend might be ashamed of her plain costume. An Old-Fashioned Girl
Man with just a passing twinge of shame.
For shame, Barnet! what ninnis, what hartless raskles, you must beleave them to be, — in the fust plase, to fancy that you are a politticle genus; in the secknd, to let your politix interfear with their notiums about littery merits! The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush
I felt shamed for being called crybaby and a fraidy cat by family members and others. Undefined
A shame since it includes the weapons, sabotage devices and other inventions which undoubtedly frustrated the German forces.
He was embarrassed and even ashamed of his indiscretion, but then he realized that there was no way he could have been heard above the roar of the boisterous crowd.
Masked, they were dynamic, varied, and hilarious, so that their masks actually seemed to become their faces, despite their grotesqueness; unmasked, they were slow, hesitant, and awkward, as if ashamed of the material.
Shamefacedness is derived from _aidos_ in the Greek, and has The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity
We're surrounded by families with kids in every direction so I no longer feel shame for wearing my trackies and having unkept hair at three (ok six) in the pm.
He hesitates, looking particularly grave, and finally brings himself to utter the shameful words.
It is temporary accommodation which puts most permanent local housing to shame.
It's a shame this movie made so much when other better movies can't even find a distributor. delilah try reading a evem apage of any of the books before you judge it!!!!!!!!! Box Office: Twilight Goes For The Throat with $33M Friday; Possible $70.5M Weekend | /Film
The shame of NOT celebrating something I've informed my readers about motivates me not to forget the date--a form of precommitment! Zoe P. Strassfield: Plans and Precommitment: 2012 in Space!
He explained that often recently single people are ashamed of their new status and need help relearning the social scene from a single person's perspective.
Everybody has a sense of shame.
Thought his pain and shame would be lesser, If on womankind he might his anger wreak, THE CALLIGRAPHER
Shame he didn't win any gongs to take home in those huge pockets. The Sun
Hurry up! It would be a shame to miss the beginning of the play.
Today's pop quiz is in honor of an actress for whom I once had precious little respect and whose casting over any number of other performers got me feeling dischuffed to the point of, if not beyond, churlishness until one day I found myself inexplicably fond of her and ashamed of my earlier thuggish disrespect. Who Goes There - Pop Quiz
No one is privy to her despair, her chaos, and her shame. Eating Problems: A Feminist Psychoanalytic Treatment Model
I would venture the opinion that the TRC was a logical conclusion to our atrocious and shameful past. SPEECH BY ADV DE LANGE ANC MP DURING THE PRESIDENT'S TABLING OF RECOMMENDATIONS RELATING TO THE TRC
So fie, for shame, and I declare myself rededicated to this humble art, even to the extent of journaling at work.
From beyond the doors, the hubbub still continued; but it trailed off, damped by the hush of those in front to a kind of shamefaced muttering. Funeral Games
I am not to learne, that these accidents by thee related, may happen to fooles, who are voide of understanding or shame: but such as are wise, and endued with vertue, have alwayes such a precious esteeme of their honour, that they wil containe those principles of constancie, which men are meerely carelesse of, and I justifie my wife to be one of them. The Decameron
Better poor with honour than rich with shame.
He said things he knew perfectly well he did not mean, and he was not at all ashamed of owning this strange character trait.
It would be a shame to lose this huge green space to militarization," said Michael P. Filippello, a budgeter for the International Monetary Fund, who is leading the outreach. Gardeners near Capitol Hill prepare to repel a Marine Corps invasion
She was ashamed of her humble background.
Shame on you for being so unkind.
McCain makes the Bush daughters look demure, which is a shame: we had so much hope for them taking over their father's mantle, but McCain looks like she will be fun too. Paul Jenkins: Republican Circus: Extended Engagement
Which smears the sense of guilt with a veneer of shame and regret. Times, Sunday Times
I would have carried my burden more lightly, not been overcome by a spirit of seriousness and of shame.
That is a shame, because the cold snap brought a magical winter scene of frosty nights under starry skies. Times, Sunday Times
We feel ashamed and guilty,' he said. Times, Sunday Times
The night's very dark," said Hobbie, rising and looking through the casement of the cottage; "and, to speak truth, and shame the deil, though Elshie's a real honest fallow, yet somegate I would rather take daylight wi 'me when I gang to visit him. The Black Dwarf
It is quite possible that his only truly shameful act was his abandonment of his daughter and her mother, not to mention his mendacious behaviour toward my mother.
His jaw dropped, and I felt ashamed of my answer, for who was I to so speak to a Brother, even if he be a solitary?
Man's dearest possession is life. It is given to him but once, and he must live it so as to feel no torturing regrets for wasted years, never know the burning shame of a mean and petty past; so live that, dying, he might say: all my life, all my strength were given to the finest cause in all the world--the fight for the Liberation of Mankind.
The rich subsidizers then perversely declare they cannot possibly expand trade with the poor world because of its shameful disrespect for the environment.
Her husband felt ashamed at her behaviour.
You won't believe this part," he said in a kind of shamefaced way. The Window-Gazer
They bring shame and disgrace on the religion. The Sun
And the coverage of U.S. atrocities aroused feelings of shame rather than pride.
It's a crying shame to cover up your body.
But some experts were quick to accuse the chancellor of shameless electioneering.
Shame: a painful feeling of humiliation or distress caused by the consciousness of wrong or foolish behaviour. Times, Sunday Times
Norms use the clubs of stigma and shame to punish deviants, nonconformists, and radicals.
Tate Modern, SE1, Thu to 5 JunSkye SherwinS1 Artspace continues to establish itself on the contemporary art-world map with this unashamedly spaced-out show of Jennifer West film installations. This week's new exhibitions
European Powers is exhausted on Poland, and that neither pity nor shame will induce them to break a thankless neutrality, here; but in the face of all barely probable contingencies, I doubt no more of the ultimate result, than I doubt of the ultimate performance of the justice of God. Border and Bastille
It seems a shame to waste this good food.
This multitool cigarette case from the Great Depression will put your pocket knife to shame. HUFFPOST HILL - Where Republicans Move Their Money
They all committed seppuku in shame and we lost the account.
It would be a shame if he lost his affable, easy-going nature. Times, Sunday Times
She reddened with shame.
I bow my head in shame when I think of how I treated her.
He appeals to a staunch, hard-core audience, and it would be a shame if they muzzle him.
Hiatt had come to oppose Shames and his plan to build a $ 30 million high-tech distribution center in Louisville, Ky.
Roll Call of the Cowed and the Sameful-Shameful yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Roll Call of the Cowed and the Sameful-Shameful'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: For President Bushmaster - a bushmaster is a highly venomous snake, extraordinarily dangerous to humans, that inhabits the Southern tropics (See, I can match \'em bam-for-BAM!) - to suggest it was "disgusting" is so like a hog calling a wallowing pig filthy.' Roll Call of the Cowed and the Sameful-Shameful
The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
I oscillate between shame, self forgiveness and anger with the world at large. (No) Money Changes Everything | Her Bad Mother
Slowly, with enthusiasm that would put coffin bearers to shame, he moved past the poster cases, making nothing of the garish imagery and loud print.
Maybe it helps understanding one kind of hoarder, but its presentation obscures understanding of – and arguably imposes shame upon – another. Of Shoes And Ships And Sealing Wax And Hoarding Stuff And Things | Her Bad Mother
But I am thankful to live in times when men no longer have the temptation to write so as to call blushes on women’s cheeks, and would shame to whisper wicked allusions to honest boys. Roundabout Papers
It's just a shame that beach is shingle, rather than sand. Times, Sunday Times
And the men controlling the most powerful countries in the world ought to be ashamed.
Serving as an admonition to all ladies and gentlewomen, not to mock or scorne gentlemen-Schollers, when they make meanes of love to them: Except they intend to seeke their owne shame, by disgracing them The Decameron
When Ann gets home, she's ashamed, haunted by her moment of kleptomania.
Even in this day and age, when unmarried mothers are hardly seen as shameless hussies anymore, there are still girls who suffer incredible loneliness because they daren't bring shame upon their families.
It was a shame that the ineptitude failed to spark more goalmouth action. Times, Sunday Times
Turning 50 is a cause for sombre reflection, not celebration," opined Norris and, as a flurry of firemen attempted to free her empurpled cranium, shame descended once more. World Of Lather
I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame.
While theoretical academics and self-conscious modernists shy away from the sentimental pitfalls of such subjects as love, sex and death, the country and western crooners would give the human tragi-comedy full unashamed voice. This week's new exhibitions
For some reason best known to whoever it was, a lifebuoy on Abbeyside strand was taken from its berthing and shamelessly burned.
The fact that the dim-witted and near-sighted MPAA has slapped an NC-17 rating on Steve McQueen's Shame implies that there is something prurient about this film, whose central figure is a sex addict, struggling with his demons. Marshall Fine: Movie review: Shame
My summing up of her abysmal and shameful performance is written below.
It is no shame for me," said Credhe, "I to die for grief after Cael, since the stag is shortening his life sorrowing after the hind. Gods and Fighting Men
For De Vos, Benedict's text had been both an inspiration and a foil, against which he argued that the Japanese are a deeply interiorized and guilt-ridden people and not motivated by external emotions rooted in social shame as Benedict had described. Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco : The Fox
Grace ought to be ashamed of herself , hurling herself at that boy so openly.
It's a shame that we have lost to a main competitor and we could have dealt with the goal better. Times, Sunday Times
It is completely illogical to assume that being ashamed and having your school "excoriate" you will be motivational in any way. The Reality Check
As they turned into the hedges that bordered the door, a man motioned to Gordon, shamefaced. A THEORY OF RELATIVITY
It is a shame that the Canadian toponymic committee does not recognize exclamation marks as being a legitimate part of place names! VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 1
The publication triggered a new storm over shameless MPs just when it seemed they could go no lower in public esteem. The Sun
And she was from Basingstoke, which is nothing to be ashamed of. Excerpt: The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde
But Luo Zhixiang occasionally reveals the simple and honest makings, pour may also develop open shamelessly.
An ideal connection that puts any solder to shame.
As California's harvests begin next month, Juan's plight will highlight a nation's shame.
I behaved badly yesterday and I am ashamed now.
What was more, I was determined to defy the frigidity of my race, that ancient shameful legacy of inhibition.
Behaving badly to those we love always makes us feel ashamed. Times, Sunday Times
That's a shame, because her brand of industrial slap was really starting to grow on me.
And this really is a pity, and this is a shame, because what does that mean for United Nations to expulse people who are fighting day after day at the local level to change what's happening, to try to defend the poor people, to defend the farmers, the indigenous people and so on? Democracy Now!
A 16-year-old boy who carried out two knifepoint robberies after smoking cannabis has been named and shamed by a judge.
It seems such a shame to throw perfectly good food away.
There's no shame, no guardedness and perhaps most impressively, no status anxiety. Robi Ludwig: Life Lessons Learned Over Coffee
Shame it's not with one hand, in what surely Simon knows as the wanking sign. Rude animation requested and produced.
Where their debut looked to the KLF, Surfing the Void's psychonautical vocabulary recalls another oddball early 90s dance act, the Shamen, who infiltrated the top 10 with talk of a "shamanic, anarchistic, archaic revival" in the days when trance acts played clubs with names like Megatripolis and expounded on the mystical importance of the number The Guardian World News
The man Christ's voluntary and most innocent, most shameful, and most cruel death on the Cross was the deletion and purgation of, and the satisfaction for, all the carnal desires of human nature.
There is Samsara, with it's minimalistic yet rich melange of jasmine, sandalwood and vanilla; Songes, shamelessly floral through and through with jasmine, frangipanni and powdery-sweet vanilla foundation; or Ormonde Jayne's airy and light rendition of Frangipanni Absolute. Archive 2008-06-01
The ones who were subjected to insults and humiliations hung their heads down in shame.
The defendant was ashamed, sorry and had written the victim a letter of apology.
‘Well, I, uhm, don't know what I'm going to tell Ricky,’ I admit, shamefaced.
All are so media savvy and willing to give information rather than conceal it... it somewhat puts their dads to shame. The Sun
SHAME is a metadata editing and presentation framework for RDF metadata.
She saws away at her pancake, looking a little ashamed.
Mary was so embarrassed. She could only hide her face in shame.
Expelled, who use the term shamelessly to attack evolution, people on all sides of the political spectrum should rally around this call for change. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
The history of racism in accusations and punishments for rape is sordid and shameful.
It would be a great shame and a waste of time and money if the flowers were left dry and underfed, therefore any help with maintaining them would be truly appreciated.
You have instead brought shame and disgrace. Times, Sunday Times
My father, in the first agitations of his mind, on discovering your wicked, your shameful elopement, imprecated on his knees a fearful curse upon you. Clarissa Harlowe
A jury in Canada has found three members of an Afghan family guilty of drowning three teenage sisters and another woman in what the judge described as "cold-blooded, shameful murders" resulting from a "twisted concept of honour". 'Honour killings': Canadian jury finds Afghan family guilty
It's time to shame holdouts like the USA into signing the treaty.
As a democrat, I think it's shameful to suggest McCain will be losing his seat because "[e] very Latina is Arizona will turn out to make sure he does not make it back to Washington" for voting against Sotomayor. McCain to vote against Sotomayor
`You have it,' she said (a smiling vision of shameless insincerity ). BEHINDLINGS
It would be a shame to lose your new friendship because you don't agree with the things your friend's OH does.
Pure coincidence or unashamed public flirting? The Sun
He has also been accused of being a shameless self-publicist, boring, inarticulate and lucky.
A thousand times Mildred asked herself, "How can I go out and face the world with my name blackened by this great cloud of shame? Without a Home
All human beings (except for the handful of deviants who call themselves naturalists) have an inborn sense of shame.
Bargain whistles no longer come under a cloud of shame and ignominy. Times, Sunday Times
The most remarkable thing about Kenna's shameless new wave revivalism is that Fred Durst likes it - enough to take Kenna aboard his inappropriately named Flawless imprint, anyway.
But part of how he achieved that is by shameless self-promotion and hustling.
To my horror, Tulsi Pipe Road was now shamefully dug up, its bowels exposed and the entrails left lying on one side for the world to see.
In his book he traces the shameful collaboration between government personnel officers and the D.C. vice squads that fueled inquisitions, investigations and systematic removals of gay people from federal agencies.
The Coens unashamedly celebrate and aggrandize American culture and sense of place, using it to enhance stories that convey and explore love, betrayal and ambition.
They have been spoonfed lies and distortions about the British Empire, so that they bleat about how ashamed they are of it, forgetting that for all its faults it gave parliamentary democracy to the world (or tried to), and abolished excesses such as suttee and thuggee. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
They should be ashamed of themselves that even the rumor that his job was in danger got out.
Shame fa' him, say I,'at made his siller as a flesher i' the wast wyn' o' Howglen, to ettle at a gentleman o' a thoosan' year for ane o' his queans! Warlock o' Glenwarlock
The reluctance by our present government to investigate thoroughly and put closure on this matter is shameful.
This has brought real shame on the family. The Sun
I wanna be up to my nuts in starstruck college girl when I’m 100 years old too, I dont care if it means I have to tape my wanksta to an oak branch just to create an illusion of rigidity, I have NO shame. NICHOLSON TO LEDGER: ‘I TOLD YOU SO’ (UPDATE)
A morning newspaper should be a city's crown of glory, an intellectual Aurora ushering in the new-born day; but in Houston's case her chief newspaper is a sorrow's crown of sorrow, her inexpungeable badge of shame. The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 1.
They and helicopter pilots risked their lives on numerous occasions to save our butts and they were heroes in our eyes, but not to manny garcia gump, no sir, he was the only hero in his racist filled eyes, and you people all of you should be ashamed of yourselves for being taken in by this liar and thief of real honor. Manny garcia
The embarrassment and shame it brings on the family means people are keeping quiet and women are being cocooned in their homes.
"It is a huge shame for the town because a substantial amount of jobs would have been created."
Along with embarrassment and guilt, shame is one of the emotions that motivate moral behaviour.
And Twickenham chiefs will read the riot act to players to avoid any repeat of their shameful off-field antics. The Sun
I would be mortified cancelling someone who had flown 600 miles to see me, but important men don't sport the blush of shame.
And Twickenham chiefs will read the riot act to players to avoid any repeat of their shameful off-field antics. The Sun
You should be ashamed of yourself.
In short, we had to pander to the general belief that drifters were losers who were ashamed of their personal histories.
It is better to be clothed in rags, than to be clothed with shame.
Restaurants, cafés and pubs will be named and shamed unless they make food portions smaller or less sweet, the government has said. Times, Sunday Times
I was too ashamed to confide in friends from university. The Sun
Back before they were Super Bowl champs, some called the hapless team the "Aints" and in shame would pull paper bags over their heads. LocalNews8.com - Local News 8 - Headlines
(Zakát): thus he avoided the shame and scandal of mendicancy which, beginning in the Catholic countries of Southern Europe, extends to The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
No fictional account of human humiliation and shame can capture the frightening banality of the people's treatment at these checkpoints.
I felt my anger ebb away and a feeling of shame come over me.
It was a shame that it clashed with the Wales - Ireland Six Nations rugby match, but looking back, people may have been better off watching the volleyball instead.
She is inexorably engulfed by the cloud of shame that surrounds parricide.
Watching from a portable TV at the wedding she's attending, she is horrified to see this shamelessly sexual display.
Nor is there any effort from the so-called distinguished agricultural scientists, economists, and social scientists to come out with proposals to put an end to this shameful blot on the country's image.
We followed her through a series of large, lavishly furbished rooms that each put my entire house to shame.
Others suggested that such a name and shame list would provide the perfect advertisement for restaurants serving large portions. Times, Sunday Times
And that consideration which ingenerates shame and self-abhorrency on the account of the defilement of sin is taken peculiarly from the holiness of God. Pneumatologia
She then felt ashamed and disgusted with herself. Trauma and Recovery
His bad behaviour brings shame on the whole school.
They aren't taught respect of their elders and betters, and that's a shame!
Martin walloped me on the back and poured me a double and, ‘shamed as I am to admit it, I started bawling and wailing.
Failing health bodies will be named and shamed when the cancer data is officially released this month. The Sun
Social media can be enlisted to name and shame litter louts. Times, Sunday Times
There is no shame in disagreeing with a madman and his folly … .. Think Progress » ThinkFast AM: June 28, 2006
The hands of some called for kingship and irresponsible and numerated power; other hands called for ambition, for wealth in untold sums, for disgrace and shame, or for women and wine. Chapter X
It is a shame that one high-profile incident has had such an impact. The Sun
Although the fines are not particularly onerous, the shame of being publicly labelled a flopper might be an effective deterrent.
Which is a great shame because in the current climate, where the love of reading and untempered enthusiasm for ideas is regarded as increasingly unfashionable, she remains one of the few consistently dissenting voices.
Britain has a wonderful array of produce and it would be such a shame if they were to disappear from our tables. Times, Sunday Times
I give my personal apology to the victims and their families for this disrespectful and shameful behaviour. The Sun
Depression is seen by many as something shameful or embarrassing, and it's very easy to internalize that attitude.
Generally speaking, everyone has a sense of shame.
I was ashamed by my ignorance of soil, vine orientation, geology and earth sciences. Times, Sunday Times
I also wonder what sort of topsy-turvy world we live in where being fat cannot be shamed but being slim is criticised with such freedom. The Sun
To intense, hardworking young Taylor, the practice could scarcely have seemed like anything but the most shameless sloth.
He was clothed only in his shiny fur and his disdain for the human emotion of shame. The Broken God
I imagined I could feel my feet getting wet as the dock sank with shame into the bay.
I'm ashamed of the state of the litter-strewn waysides and wonder what visitors to this country must think of us.
His daughter looked such a mess that he was ashamed of her.
It's rather a shame that Joyce missed the concert.
At its worst, it was fear of authority for its own sake, allowing no questioning of its justice or merit; and the shame was to be found unworthy in the judgment of that authority.
And if any, say, substitute teachers listening in settle for such houses, shame on them. ESPN's Van Pelt slams Bud Selig about his salary
He has kept it all in until now but he feels ashamed that it was somehow his fault. The Sun
The Register has shamed itself by printing this and should publish an immediate retraction.
Perhaps even more important, severe maltreatment could bring shame and dishonour on the neighbourhood.

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