Sentence example with the word 'abase'

abase

abash, bump, cower, debase, demote, disgrade, dump, grovel, lower, set down, take down, truckle

Definition v. cause to feel shame

Last update: November 6, 2019


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

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Have I abased my head.   [verb]

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

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

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

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

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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]

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

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

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

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

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