How to Use indignity in a Sentence

indignity

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  • The indignity of it all was too much to bear.
  • He suffered the indignity of being forced to leave the courtroom.
  • He remembers all the indignities he had to suffer in the early years of his career.
  • We must endure the indignities of growing old.
  • The final indignity came on the ninth green, his last hole of the day: a three-putt from 12 feet.
    — Eamon Lynch, Golfweek, 15 Feb. 2020
  • To add to the indignity, police wouldn't even let the group march.
    — Fox News, 3 June 2018
  • Don’t act out, don’t huff and puff over the indignity of it all — just be busy that day.
    — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Don’t act out, don’t huff and puff over the indignity of it all – just, be busy that day.
    — Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 18 Nov. 2022
  • In that time, he’s learned how to survive, and reframe, some of the indignities of life on the road.
    — Kaitlin Menza, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 June 2023
  • For many in the city, the water is just one more indignity.
    — New York Times, 16 Oct. 2021
  • Amy Schumer has joked about the indignity of being pregnant at the same time as Meghan Markle.
    — Emily Barasch, Vogue, 11 Nov. 2021
  • Eat the sandwich open-faced, by hand, or submit to the mannered indignities of a fork and knife.
    — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2024
  • The final indignity for Minnesota came in the stands, not on the field.
    — Ben Shpigel, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2019
  • And, in the final indignity, Williams threw down a vicious dunk off a Young lob.
    — Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2022
  • The worst indignity: His boss was one of the best drummers ever.
    — Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2022
  • As for the misspelling of his name, Ibrahimovic isn’t the first to suffer that indignity.
    — Kevin Baxter, latimes.com, 9 July 2019
  • Trump was spared the indignity of being handcuffed, perp walked or placed in a cell.
    — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Alfred deals with a lot of indignities in these first few episodes.
    — Joshua Rivera, GQ, 1 Mar. 2018
  • Mike really does have to bear the indignity of riding in the trunk.
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 May 2022
  • On this night, that was just one of the many indignities heaped upon the Dodgers, who need to have their memories erased.
    — Bill Plaschke, latimes.com, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Jason Day made two triple bogeys and closed with a birdie to avoid the indignity of shooting 80.
    — Doug Ferguson, chicagotribune.com, 15 June 2017
  • Hani asked about his child, and the others enduring the mounting indignities of the war.
    — Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, 15 Dec. 2023
  • Stumbling around the outfield wasn’t the only indignity of Willie Mays’ days in New York.
    — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 3 Dec. 2019
  • The customs have evolved, but the sacrifices and indignities have been there all along.
    — Hanna Lustig, Glamour, 12 Sep. 2023
  • So one of them keeps a tongue as an act of reverence and kindness to the body that is still going to go through a lot of indignities.
    — Kate Aurthur, Variety, 19 Feb. 2024
  • Soufra shows how the stagnation of life that a refugee must endure is the greatest indignity of all.
    — Padma Lakshmi, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Dec. 2017
  • Djokovic raced out to a 5-0 lead in the first set, and no one—perhaps not even Djokovic—wanted to see Nadal suffer the indignity of being bageled.
    — Sean Gregory / Paris, TIME, 29 July 2024
  • The final indignity lies in the fact that the women were all but forgotten.
    — Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Aug. 2022
  • Few react to that indignity by scouring the streets in a quest to confront the unfortunate soul who left them hanging.
    — Judy Berman, TIME, 23 Dec. 2024
  • The only good news for the Mets was that Jeff McNeil’s sixth-inning solo homer spared them the indignity of being shut out in a three-game series for the first time in their history.
    — Tim Britton, The Athletic, 12 Aug. 2024

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