How to Use guilt-trip in a Sentence
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Don’t fall for every sob story, and don’t let someone guilt-trip you out of your boundaries.
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Dossé-Via Trenou,
Refinery29,
12 Oct. 2025
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The first-time host has a novel plan to guilt-trip award winners into keeping things short and sweet.
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Emlyn Travis,
Entertainment Weekly,
10 Sep. 2025
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In the present, her mother lies to her church friends about Audrey’s nonexistent medical career, pressures her to date a nice and rich but hopelessly boring divorcé and guilt-trips Audrey into extending her stay.
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Angie Han,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Jan. 2026
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But no series ostensibly for children has worked harder to guilt-trip adults into taking better care of their pets or belongings than the Toy Story movies, in which the mere act of putting away playthings is tantamount to mass murder.
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David Sims,
The Atlantic,
19 June 2026
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The dramatic declaration earned more than 44,000 likes as viewers instantly recognized the classic golden retriever guilt-trip.
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Lucy Notarantonio,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 Nov. 2025
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This is what we’ve been told time and again, in movies and TV shows from Mommie Dearest and Carrie to Mad Men and The Sopranos, where the mother monster shows up in all her pill-popping, guilt-tripping, fright wig-wearing splendor to wreak havoc on her innocent children’s—and our—psyches.
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Literary Hub,
23 Feb. 2026
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People are ready to attack each other or guilt trip them.
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Georgia Nicols,
Denver Post,
15 May 2026
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Her love for drama is like no other, and her guilt trips deserve an award.
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Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
24 Nov. 2025
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An example of a guilt trip not taken is what happened just before Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead (see John 11).
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Kathryn Jones Dunton,
Christian Science Monitor,
12 Sep. 2025
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Her fateful decision proves to have great consequences, and Jude tracks her subsequent guilt trip with merciless humanity, echoing Rossellini’s Europa ’51.
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Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
5 Aug. 2025
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Continue reading … OPINION TED JENKIN – America's tipping culture spirals from 15% to 30% as digital guilt trip kicks in.
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FOXNews.com,
18 Aug. 2025
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