Use of the word abase in a sentence example

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Although I need money badly, I will not abase myself by working for pennies. [verb]

Have I abased my head. [verb]

My stepmother is an evil woman who likes to abase little children because she had a miserable childhood herself. [verb]

'I wouldn't abase myself by descending to hold no conversation with him,' replied the Dodger. [verb]

Fortune may raise up or abase the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control. [verb]

Civilized people, especially in our day, are neither elevated nor abased by the good or bad fortune of a captain. [verb]

The newly-married daughter found that her mother-in-law was fond of demeaning her, as a way to abase her in the son's eyes. [Please select]

Could she elect which man should live and which should die--this woman, scorned, abased, mastered. [Please select]

They would crush that glorious body, abase the lips that had spoke so well of love. [Please select]

Ashamed, abased, degraded in his own eyes, he turned away his head. [Please select]

Yet I would not abase myself, being now in my turn sore and therefore obstinate. [Please select]

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