Use ashamed in a sentence
Sentences starting with ashamed
- Ashamed I was, Pierre, that Father Corraine should spake to me like that, for I'd only a twig twisted at me hips to kape me trousies up, an' I thought 'twas that he had in his eye! [11]
- Ashamed am I. [11]
Sentences ending with ashamed
- He has given you a son whom all men may look in the face, of whom you need never be ashamed. [9]
- Sometimes he gives you a look that makes you ashamed. [5]
- It's awkward and would make me ashamed. [2]
- An agonized voice was in my ears, and I halted, ashamed. [9]
- How to shape this worthily, if the victor left her no other choice, had just been pointed out by the son of whom she was ashamed. [10]
- And I'll say this for Eben, he was downright ashamed. [9]
- Of this tendency she was profoundly ashamed. [9]
- I've done a piece of work of which I'm not ashamed. [11]
- It made the people laugh, and we were ashamed. [5]
- But he--" She paused, ashamed. [9]
Short sentences using ashamed
- I'm ashamed of you! [4]
- I'm ashamed of such conduct. [12]
- You weren't ashamed of me. [9]
- Was Ditmar ashamed of her?... [9]
- I wonder you're not ashamed! [2]
- They looked ashamed, Miss Withersteen. [13]
- It makes me ashamed. [5]
- I am not ashamed. [5]
- I feel guilty and ashamed. [5]
- You are ashamed. [9]
Sentences containing ashamed two or more times
- They were ashamed to be called cowards, ashamed to leave, but still they left, knowing it had to be done. [2]
- Jack, you ought to be ashamed of yourself--you ought to be ashamed of such criminal ignorance. [5]
- This is a tendency of which I suppose I ought to be ashamed, if we have any right to be ashamed of those idiosyncrasies which are ordered for us. [6]
- They know they ought to help him and they're too stingy to do it, and they're ashamed of themselves for that, and they ought also to hate themselves on that account, but instead of that they hate Brady because he makes them ashamed of themselves. [5]
- I was ashamed of him, and ashamed of myself; I took no further interest in him, and never went to his shop any more. [5]
- Gwendolen was ashamed of herself for allowing her disappointment to so depress her spirits and make her so strangely and profoundly miserable; but feeling ashamed of herself didn't improve the matter any; it only seemed to aggravate the suffering. [5]
- We need not in any company be ashamed if we have not read it all, especially if we are ashamed that, considering the time at our disposal, we have not made the acquaintance of the great and small masterpieces of literature. [4]
- I ought to be ashamed of myself, and I am ashamed of myself for thinking that a little bit of a circumstance like sending a shark to England to fetch back a market report----" "What does your middle initial stand for, sir? [5]
- We are even ashamed of that we had; ashamed that we trusted the promises of life and builded high--to come to this! [5]
More example sentences with the word ashamed in them
- If I were you, De Conte, I would name the emotion; it's nothing to be ashamed of. [5]
- Then--need I assure you of it?--my blood boiled with righteous indignation; but instead of being ashamed of the outrage, he raised his hand to my head and pulled the veil. [10]
- And yet, do you know, Miss Raglan, I don't feel a bit ashamed of it, after all: which may be evidence of my lost condition. [11]
- I may be wrong; but these are my sentiments, and I am not ashamed of them. [4]
- Of course she would, and of course you ought to be ashamed of yourself for thinking of it. [11]
- Before this radiant witness he was ashamed to carry out his dark purpose, and he said, addressing the sun: "For thy sake, Phoebus Apollo, I spare the man. [10]
- Why should we without shame help the nation lie, and then be ashamed to do a little lying on our own account? [5]
- Besides, the escutcheon with the count's coronet had given the knight assurance that he would have no cause to be ashamed, in an assembly of his peers, of his alliance with the Nuremberg maiden. [10]
- A young man will naturally enough be ashamed of his shyness. [6]
- It was Honora who told him that he ought to be ashamed of himself. [9]
- I don't know where we shall go now; Boston isn't like home any more; and we couldn't live on two thousand there; I should be ashamed to try. [8]
- He watched her when the baker, at last, overcome by his own feelings--and ashamed of them--got up and stole swiftly out of the garden. [11]
- I thought you were ashamed of old Rhodo. [11]
- There--there alone it was the fate of my grey hairs to be ashamed of my fellow-Moslems--believe me, maiden, it was grievous to me. [10]
- The Reverend Doctor was human, as the Apostle was not ashamed to confess himself. [6]
- But no harm was done; the others rolled and barked too, privately ashamed of themselves for not seeing the point, and never suspecting that the fault was not with them and there wasn't any to see. [5]
- I think he was ashamed to see his cousin, too, after what he had done. [6]
- No, even Cauchon was ashamed to lay that monstrosity before her; even he had a remnant of shame in him, away down deep, a million fathoms deep, and that remnant asserted itself now and prevailed. [5]
- After that he was ashamed to go any more. [5]
- He said he was ashamed of his ignorance, but that he had never been confronted with the question before during the fifty years and more that he had spent in Australia, and so he had never happened to get interested in the matter. [5]
- He felt, and was ashamed in feeling, that there was a grim humour in the situation. [11]
- In fact he was a little ashamed to go; he didn't want to go there and find out by the rude impact of the thought of those people upon his reorganized condition of mind, how sharp the change had been. [5]
- She said she warn't ashamed of me. [5]
- It should make Wall Street ashamed of itself. [5]
- And he was very much ashamed of it, and believed he would never tell another. [4]
- It is a tremendous favor to ask, and I expect you to refuse and would be ashamed to expect you to do otherwise. [5]
- There is a tradition (attributed to John Phenix [It has been purloined by fifty different scribblers who were too poor to invent a fancy but not ashamed to steal one.--M. [5]
- In a big town and an active market we should have brought a good price; but this place was utterly stagnant and so we sold at a figure which makes me ashamed, every time I think of it. [5]
- I felt airy touches on my shoulders and my hair, and I shrank from them and cringed, and was not ashamed to show this fear, for I saw the others doing the like, and knew that they were feeling those faint contacts too. [5]
- I am ashamed to write and talk, sometimes, when I see how those functions of the large-brained, thumb-opposing plantigrade are abused by my fellow-vertebrates,--perhaps by myself. [6]
- She was hurt to the heart, and so ashamed that for a moment she did not quite know what to do or how to act. [5]
- And, tho' ashamed to speak of it, I told him of Stanwix's prophecy that I should pace the decks of a man-o'-war. [9]
- I was ashamed to say anything about it and kept upright on my saddle, until we had to take fresh horses at Bagis. [10]
- Both were ashamed to name it; each waited for the other to do it. [5]
- I shouted this to my men; but--and at that moment I was heartily ashamed of my profession--it was too late. [10]
- A smile came to his lips, as suspicion stole away ashamed, and he said: "This will not do. [11]
- I am ashamed to have been so stupid. [9]
- He was ashamed to express his new Masonic views, which had been particularly revived and strengthened by his late tour. [2]
- I am ashamed to confess what an intolerable pile of manuscript I ground out in the 35 days, therefore I will keep the number of words to myself. [5]
- It is charitable to believe that the other twenty were ashamed to come. [5]
- Brydon, as if to be nursed and cared for was not manly, felt ashamed, and came up quickly to a sitting posture, saying, "Pshaw! [11]
- But you ought to be ashamed to be jawing here like this, in a red blanket, on a forty-foot scaffold on top of the Alps. [5]
- I was bursting to ask one question--I had it on my tongue's end and could hardly hold it back--but I was ashamed to ask it; it might be a rudeness. [5]
- Prince Andrew several times prompted Pierre's story of what he had been doing, as though it were all an old-time story, and he listened not only without interest but even as if ashamed of what Pierre was telling him. [2]
- From time to time I'm thoroughly ashamed of being connected with such a charlatan. [8]
- But the wicked thought only glided through his mind; even before he had reflected upon it, he felt ashamed of himself, for he was no liar. [10]
- When I heard this, I felt the same as you did just now; anger seized upon me, and I was as much ashamed as if I were standing in the pillory. [10]
- But I cannot think our Scheherezade is one of that kind, and I am ashamed of myself for noting such a trifling coincidence as that which excited my suspicion. [6]
- Except when I think of you, dear heart--then I am not blithe; for I seem to see you grieving and ashamed, and dreading to look people in the face. [5]
- And you see, they're so poor, and old, and friendless, and--' But I was ashamed by that time, and shut him off, and somehow felt a new courage in me, and so I said, softly, 'We'll keep them--the Lord will provide. [5]
- In his eyes there was no anger, no indignation, nor sullenness--all of which he might reasonably have felt; and instantly I was ashamed of the thought which, as I came to him, flashed through my mind, that he might do some violent thing. [11]
- That as for the wine, I would take that upon myself, and no Emperor need be ashamed of our Venice glasses. [10]
- He looked scornful, the way he's always done when he was ashamed of a person, and says: "Huck Finn, do you mean to tell me you don't know what a crusade is? [5]
- But Mary removed the towel and said: "Now ain't you ashamed, Tom. [5]
- Again: if under the sudden anguish of a wound the receiver of it makes a grimace, he falls some degrees in the estimation of his fellows; his corps are ashamed of him: they call him "hare foot," which is the German equivalent for chicken-hearted. [5]
- As if ashamed, the other six came on again at a spring. [11]
- She declared it the most ideal way of getting about in the world, and was not ashamed when he reminded her of how she used to say that nothing under the sun could induce her to travel on it. [8]
- And suddenly, in the most casual tone, which made him feel ashamed of himself, he said, as if merely asking his father to let him have the carriage to drive to town: "Papa, I have come on a matter of business. [2]
- I don't envy the man who holds a contrary opinion; he'll be ashamed of it some day. [11]
- He might be the greater sufferer in the end, but he was sorry to have got the better of that old man for the moment; and he felt ashamed of the anger into which Dryfoos's anger had surprised him. [8]
- The eyes of the German filled at the recollection, nor did he seem ashamed of his tears. [9]
- And now, for the first time, he began to feel ashamed of his doubts of Melissa. [10]
- He knew that the fever was increasing, as it had done once before when he nearly lost his life in the red disease; but he was ashamed to own it and battled bravely against his pain. [10]
- Old Ben Franklin, the father of American science and the American Union, was n't ashamed to be born here. [6]
- Intended or no, the effect of my religious training was to make me ashamed of discussing spiritual matters, and naturally I failed to perceive that this was because it laid its emphasis on personal salvation.... [9]
- Do not overlook the desire for spiritual advice and consolation which patients sometimes feel, and, with the frightful mauvaise honte peculiar to Protestantism, alone among all human beliefs, are ashamed to tell. [6]
- She is ashamed that, though I could get no sleep during the night, and was tortured by an indescribable restlessness, she refused to obey my call, although she very well knows that the one remedy for her sleepless friend lies in her beautiful little hand. [10]
- I honestly believe that you will be ashamed of your part in this, one day. [11]
- To tell them that she felt ashamed for herself and for them would be to betray her agitation, while to decline their offers to dress her would prolong their banter and insistence. [2]
- Natasha blushed at that recollection and tried to excuse herself, as if there had been something to be ashamed of in what Prince Andrew had overheard. [2]
- But I replied that I should be ashamed to do it, and suddenly everything vanished. [2]
- I'm half ashamed that I have leisure to go every time I go to that mission. [4]
- Do you suppose that I am not myself ashamed of my own weakness? [10]
- I am not sure that Herbert, while in this glow, would be ashamed of his letter in print, but this is one of the cases where chancery would step in and protect one from himself by his next friend. [4]
- Or he would suddenly feel ashamed of he knew not what. [2]
- Rostov heard the story and not only said nothing to encourage Zdrzhinski's enthusiasm but, on the contrary, looked like a man ashamed of what he was hearing, though with no intention of contradicting it. [2]
- People of that stamp, who are not ashamed to worship, who do not philosophize but only think just so much as is necessary for acting rightly, those are the worst contemners of every supersensual manifestation. [10]
- Sappho could not speak a word even of thanks; she blushed deeply, and stood smiling and ashamed, with downcast eyes. [10]
- I got in, somewhat mollified, and ashamed of my heat: still disliking the man, but acknowledging he had the better right on his side. [9]
- I am horrid sometimes, but I was ashamed to be happy while Sonya was not," continued Natasha. [2]
- Once she stole softly back to the entry, self-indulgent and ashamed, to rehearse again the bitter and the sweet of that scene of the Sunday before. [9]
- And he sat so still--made you ashamed of yourself. [9]
- This letter is so dry and stupid that I am ashamed to send it, but with my present feelings I cannot do any better. [7]
- Stung by the slanderous report of an anonymous eavesdropper to whom the government of the day was not ashamed to listen, he had quitted Vienna, too hastily, it may be, but wounded, indignant, feeling that he had been unworthily treated. [6]
- Some people, so situated, would have been ashamed of the berth he had with us and his manner of crawling into it. [5]
- I am sorry, sincerely sorry; nor am I ashamed to apologize to you for having for an instant doubted your good intentions. [10]
- Miss Gashly--"Sister, I should think you'd be ashamed of yourself! [5]
- An honest man should be ashamed of such an argumentum ad ignorantiam. [3]
- I felt that she was perfectly cool, while I was a little confused, and ashamed too, that I had attempted to be playfully satirical. [11]
- In one instant she was doubtful whether or not to be angry, and in the next grew ashamed of the provincialism which had caused her to suspect an insult. [9]
- By that shriek she expressed what the others expressed by all talking at once, and it was so strange that she must herself have been ashamed of so wild a cry and everyone else would have been amazed at it at any other time. [2]
- How ashamed that she even doubted him! [9]
- Startled and ashamed, she began to walk on as fast as she could in the opposite direction, when she heard the sound of footsteps on the lawn behind her, and her own name called in a familiar voice. [9]
- My office demands severity; and yet, my friends, I am not ashamed of these tears. [10]
- The sights we saw were looked upon for so short a time, most of them so very superficially, that I am almost ashamed to say that I have been in the midst of them and brought home so little. [6]
- Stay here and save our precious lives, if you can, or at least put us through in the proper way, so that we needn't be ashamed of ourselves for dying, if we must die. [6]
- Number Five herself said she supposed she ought to be ashamed of its absurdities, but she did not know that it was much sillier than dreams often are, and she thought it might amuse the company. [6]
- Take for instance, said Mandeville, such a legend as this, and how easy it would be to make others like it: The son of an Emir had red hair, of which he was ashamed, and wished to dye it. [4]
- Mr. Bernard was really ashamed of himself, when he found his hand on the butt of his pistol. [6]
- And science is ready to take up this problem when the public is tired and ashamed of being any longer harried and bullied and terrorized over by the criminal class. [4]
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